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Oct 15, 2024
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Associate Professor: Bory (Chair)
Visiting Assistant Professor: Chapman
Envisioning dance as an intrinsic component of the liberal arts, the Dance Minor integrates the study of dance into Davidson’s academic curriculum. Whether in the studio or the classroom, students approach dance as another lens through which to consider and to understand the world around them. To that end, each class includes some element of theory and practice, charging students to understand dance as both a physical “way of knowing” and a culturally, historically, and socially-situated meaning-making practice. The Dance Minor then aims to provide students with a range of experiences in Dance Studies and multiple ways of considering the ideas offered in its study from cultural analysis to physical practice to creative exploration.
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Requirements
A minor in Dance Studies requires 6 courses, at least four of which must be taken in residence at Davidson College. All students must take Dance 101, technique classes at both the 200 and 300-level, a composition/performance class, and a dance theory course. In addition to other dance courses, the elective may be taken outside the department, from the selected list below:
THE 235 - Fundamentals of Stage Design
Minors are encouraged to enhance their study at summer dance festivals and intensive workshops. Those that offer course credit, at a university approved by Davidson College, may be applied to the minor with advance departmental approval. Dance classes are enhanced by attendance at and participation in the dance performances and opportunities offered in the college localand communities. Dance minors should expect to actively participate in these co-curricular activities.
Basic Structure of the Minor
One Introductory Course
Two Technique Courses at 200/300 level
One History/Theory Class
One Composition/Performance Class
One Elective
- Additional Dance Course, including independent study;
- Summer Study or Abroad, in consultation with the Dance Department; or
- Selected Courses outside the Dance Department
Rationale for Course Numbering
DAN 101 and DAN 240 are introductory-level classes that are open to all students. DAN 101: Introduction to Dance provides a classroom-based introduction to issues and theories in the practice and performance of dance. DAN 240: Modern Dance Technique I, a studio-based class, introduces the principles and techniques of Modern Dance.
Subsequent courses build on the work and ideas introduced in these classes. Dance Courses
- AFR 250 - Black Women in Contemporary Performance
- DAN 101 - Introduction to Dance Studies
- DAN 140 - Movement Lab: Somatic Explorations, Creative Practices, and Experiential Anatomy
- DAN 142 - Afro-Caribbean Dance Forms
- DAN 240 - Modern Dance Technique I
- DAN 242 - Haitian Dance Technique I: Movement, History, Culture
- DAN 246 - Odissi Dance Technique I
- DAN 250 - Dance Repertory: Composing, Crafting, & Collaboration
- DAN 252 - Special Topics:History, Memory, Performance, Place
- DAN 260 - Dance Composition I
- DAN 282 - Dance, Gender, & Sexuality
- DAN 284 - Dancing Diaspora: Black Dance in America
- DAN 288 - Choreographing Politics: Policy, Practice, and Protest
- DAN 290 - Dance History and Theory
- DAN 292 - Queer(ing) Performance
- DAN 295 - Honors Thesis
- DAN 340 - Modern Dance Technique II
- DAN 342 - Haitian Dance Technique II
- DAN 360 - Advanced Dance Composition
- DAN 395 - Honors Thesis
- RUS 293 - Performing Russia: The Ballets Russes
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