DANCE 27:
Faculty Choreography
Rehearsal and performance of faculty choreography. Selection by audition. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 35:
Feldenkrais for Performers
An educational system centered on movement, aiming to expand and refine the use of the self through awareness. Goal is to improve movement repertoire for dancers, musicians, artists, and those wishing to reduce pain or limitations in movement. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 40:
Introduction to Dance and Movement
Body expression, articulation, and anatomical basics through contemporary art dance. Emphasis is on development of awareness of the body in space. Exploration of improvisation and creativity. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 43:
Liquid Flow: Introduction to Dance and Movement
Body expression, articulation, and anatomical basics through contemporary art dance. Emphasis is on development of awareness of the body in space. Exploration of improvisation and creativity. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 4 units total)
DANCE 45:
Improvisation Plus Contact
The development of improvisation skills as a creative performance practice and as a basis for choreography; techniques of contact improvisation. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 46:
Social Dances of North America I
Introduction to the partner dances found in American popular culture: waltz, swing, tango, club two step, cha cha, merengue, and salsa. Fee. May be repeated for credit. (AU)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 48:
Beginning Ballet
Fundamentals of ballet technique including posture, placement, and the foundation steps of classical ballet. Emphasis is on the development of coordination, strength, and flexibility. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 52:
Dance Repertory by Robert Moses
Focus is on performance and choreographic methodologies. Technique studies include retrograde, inversion, and associative contextual construction. Students create repertory works to be performed at the end of the quarter.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 56:
Ballet Repertory: The Life and Work of Antony Tudor
The work of the 20th-century ballet choreographer Antony Tudor and his innovations in the dramatic and narrative possibilities of ballet. Studio work include class reenactment and phrase material from the Tudor repertoire. Lectures and video viewing. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 57:
Dance Repertory: Dance, Text, and Gesture
Current repertory of contemporary choreographers who incorporate language, song, and movement in their work. Emphasis is on new ways that dance, text, rhythm and spatial design interact and are used to create contemporary dance theater. Students perform the work of faculty or visiting artist. Audition required. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 58:
Beginning Hip Hop
Steps and styling in one of America's 21st-century vernacular dance forms. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 59:
Intermediate-Advanced Hip-Hop
Steps and styling in one of America's 21st-century vernacular dance forms. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 60:
The Evolution of Hip Hop and the Dance Stage: From Broadway to Hollywood and MTV
The repertory of Hip Hop history through steps and choreography. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
DANCE 100:
Student Choreography: Studio to Stage
Student choreography is mentored to develop composition and performance skills, particularly for presentation in The American College Dance Festival. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 102:
Choreography: Small Groups
Skills needed to choreograph duets and small group works. Students choreograph works. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 104:
Duets Project
Rehearsal experiences and techniques embedded in the reconstruction of repertory by three artists whose collective works represent differing approaches to the choreographic process. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
DANCE 105:
Contemporary Afro Styles and Dancemaking: Technique, Rhythm, Architecture
Current and traditional African diaspora styles. African polyrhythms, body percussion, and geometric forms, fused with postmodern concepts of composition and space. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 110:
Movement Migrations: Making Dance About Migration and Mixing
Techniques of bharata natyam (Indian classical dance). The pedestrian body: how people shift weight, walk, run, fall, carry one another. Students use these tools and their own movement skills to create phrases that blend form and choreographic approach. Students record each other's histories of immigration and of traversing different terrains. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
| Repeatable
1 times
DANCE 139:
Liquid Flow: Intermediate Modern Dance
Contemporary dance technique incorporating internal energy forms drawn from martial arts, improvisation, composition, pedestrian and everyday movement, and critical thought in the contemporary dance art. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 2 units total)
DANCE 140:
Intermediate Modern Dance
Intermediate technique. Improvisation and composition in directed studies. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 141:
Advanced Modern Dance
Intermediate/advanced technique. Complex movement combinations emphasizing performance demands. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 144:
Intermediate Modern Jazz Dance
Emphasis is on alignment, control, rhythmic coordination, and contemporary mixture of styles. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 146:
Social Dances of North America II
Intermediate survey of dances in American popular culture: Lindy hop, Viennese waltz, cross-step waltz, foxtrot, and hustle. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 147:
Living Traditions of Swing
Swing dancing: the early Lindy of the 20s; 6- and 8-count Lindy hop, shag, Big Apple. Partnering and improvisation. Swing's crosscultural influences and personal creativity. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 148:
Intermediate Ballet
Continuation of 48, repeating the fundamentals with increased complexity and introducing additional movement vocabulary. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 149:
Advanced Ballet
Professional-level class in a supportive environment. Comprehensive classical ballet technique including pointe work if the student desires. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 156:
Social Dances of North America III
Advanced survey of the partner dances found in American popular culture: hustle, waltz, redowa, tango, cha cha, salsa, samba. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 146 or equivalent experience.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: way_ce
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 160:
Performance, Dance, and History: The Ballerina (DRAMA 160, DRAMA 260)
Transitional periods in the history of theatrical and popular dance from the 19th through the 21st centuries; how the dancing body and choreography have been constructed in relation to social, aesthetic, and cultural agendas. This year, focus is on ballet migrations and the ballerina.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
DANCE 164:
Choreographing Violence and Performing Politics (DANCE 364)
The choreography of violence in aesthetic, social, and political performances. Cinematic violence, which has become increasingly aestheticized through fight choreography and intricate camera movements. The work of choreographers who have invoked off-stage violence in their dances. Theories of violence, social protests, and ritual practices; the cultural and political contexts for bodily performances of trauma, violence, and terror. The violence of aesthetic form by looking at how choreographers have attempted to deconstruct or disintegrate classical dance techniques. Students create short cinecabaret performances to accompany films screened in class.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-24
DANCE 166:
History of Social Dance in Western Culture
Movement and historic social dance from the past five centuries, including studio technique and history. Performance practices for stage, including deportment, body language, and demeanor distinctive to each era.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| Units: 2
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, way_ce
DANCE 170:
Postmodern Road Trips: Viewing and Reviewing Contemporary Live Performances
Postmodern and post-postmodern histories in dance, performance, and contemporary artmaking practices at the intersection between performance and social practice. History and theory. Students attend performances and events on and off campus.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
DANCE 190:
Special Research
Topics related to the discipline of dance. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 191:
Independent Research
Individual supervision of off-campus internship. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.nn (Staff)
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-18
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 197:
Dance in Prisons: The Arts, Juvenile Justice, and Rehabilitation in America
Participatory seminar. The nexus of art, community, and social action, using dance to study how the performing arts affect self-construction, perception and experiences of embodiment, and social control for incarcerated teenagers in Santa Clara Juvenile Hall.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP
DANCE 290:
Special Research
Individual project on the work of any choreographer, period, genre, or dance-related topic. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-18
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 364:
Choreographing Violence and Performing Politics (DANCE 164)
The choreography of violence in aesthetic, social, and political performances. Cinematic violence, which has become increasingly aestheticized through fight choreography and intricate camera movements. The work of choreographers who have invoked off-stage violence in their dances. Theories of violence, social protests, and ritual practices; the cultural and political contexts for bodily performances of trauma, violence, and terror. The violence of aesthetic form by looking at how choreographers have attempted to deconstruct or disintegrate classical dance techniques. Students create short cinecabaret performances to accompany films screened in class.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-24
DANCE 116:
Figure and Ground: Site-Specific Performance in Outdoor Environments
Theory and practice, emphasizing historic and aesthetic context, critical analysis, and exploration of creative processes. May be repeated for credit.
| Units: 2-3
| Repeatable
for credit
(up to 3 units total)
DANCE 133:
History of the Waltz
From Vienna in 1800. Redowa and mazurka, waltz variations, the 20th-century hesitation waltz, Parisian valse musette, and 30s Boston and waltz swing. Studio technique with performance practice for stage. May be repeated for credit two times.
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
DANCE 161H:
Dance and Live Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries (DRAMA 161H, DRAMA 261H)
History and development of postmodern dance and performance art. Topics include the body as art medium, performance art, experimental dance, and redefinitions of gender in live art
| Units: 4
DANCE 169:
Choreography: Creation, Staging, and Reconstruction
Skills and criteria for the choreographic process. Invention, staging, and reconstruction. The creative process and practical considerations in making a dance work.
| Units: 2
