Classical Dance III (370-0-20)

Topic

Ballet III

Instructors

Michael Francis Landez

Meeting Info

Wirtz Center Ballroom: Tues, Thurs 12:00PM - 1:20PM

Overview of class

Ballet 3: This course aims to reinforce and build upon movement fundamentals, terminology, and performance skills of ballet at an advanced level. It is intended to enhance the student's kinesthetic abilities as an artist-scholar through exercises geared towards strength, body alignment, coordination, balance, personal range of motion, and musicality through ballet technique. Activities will include floor, barre, center, and across the floor exercises along with reading and written responses. With an emphasis on dance as a method for scholastic inquiry, this course insists on using the embodied form of ballet technique as a method that requires critical reflection. Students are graded based on participation, attendance, class discussions, written responses, and critical reflective capacity as artist-scholars