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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
DANCE 13.4 | Title:
JAZZ DANCE IV |
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| Full Title:
Jazz Dance IV |
| Last Reviewed:2/25/2019 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 2.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 1.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 17.50 |
| Minimum | 1.00 | Lab Scheduled | 3.00 | 17 min. | Lab Scheduled | 52.50 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 4.00 | | Contact Total | 70.00 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 35.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 105.00 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
34 - 4 Enrollments Total
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
PE 30.3
Catalog Description:
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This course for advanced dancers focuses on advanced jazz dance training in the areas of technique, movement vocabulary, terminology, rhythm and musicality. The course also emphasizes jazz dance choreography and performance skills. May include a performance in a dance concert.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Course Completion of DANC 11.3 ( or DANCE 11.3 or PE 27.2 or PE 146.2) and Course Completion of DANC 13.3 ( or DANCE 13.3 or PE 30.2 or PE 149.2)
Limits on Enrollment:
By audition
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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This course for advanced dancers focuses on advanced jazz dance training in the areas of technique, movement vocabulary, terminology, rhythm and musicality. The course also emphasizes jazz dance choreography and emphasizes performance skills. May include a performance in a dance concert.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Course Completion of DANC 11.3 ( or DANCE 11.3 or PE 27.2 or PE 146.2) and Course Completion of DANC 13.3 ( or DANCE 13.3 or PE 30.2 or PE 149.2)
Limits on Enrollment:By audition
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:34 - 4 Enrollments Total
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Spring 1999 | Inactive: | |
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| UC Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Spring 1999 | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Both Certificate and Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Utilize jazz dance terminology to describe advanced jazz dance
exercises, technical principles, and movement vocabulary.
2. Perform advanced jazz dance warm-ups, techniques, stretching and
strengthening exercises, and movement combinations.
3. Describe technical principles incorporated in advanced jazz dance
and apply these to the execution of advanced jazz dance
movement.
4. Choreograph an advanced jazz dance solo.
5. Display performance skills in the performance of advanced jazz
dance movement sequences.
6. Perform advanced jazz dance movement in one or more jazz
dance styles.
7. Identify basic rhythmic concepts incorporated in advanced jazz
dance and relate them to the execution of dance movement.
8. Count advanced jazz dance movement sequences.
9. Critique a jazz dance performance or piece applying advanced jazz
dance concepts.
Topics and Scope
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I. Advanced jazz dance terminology and corresponding movement
vocabulary
II. Advanced jazz dance technique
A. Technical principles such as alignment, balance, extension,
turn-out and inward rotation of the legs, moving from the
center, isolation
B. Floor work: Stretching and strengthening
C. Jazz dance locomotor movements: Steps, turns, leaps and other
aerial movements
D. Linking movements: Across the floor and center combinations
III. Picking up and retaining choreography
IV. Rhythm and counting music
V. Style
A. Jazz dance movement qualities
B. Exploring styles (e.g. Latin Jazz, Classical Jazz)
VI. Performance skills such as:
A. Projection
B. Dynamics
C. Musicality (reflecting musical mood, accents, dynamics, etc.
in the performance of dance movement)
D. Managing performance anxiety
VII. Choreographing an advanced jazz dance combination or dance study
VIII.How to execute advanced jazz dance movement. Pedagogy may include:
A. Verbal descriptions
1. Dance terminology
2. Use of imagery
3. Biomechanics (anatomical and kinesiological references)
B. Demonstration of movement
C. Tactile information (hands-on)
D. Kinesthetic awareness-enhancing tools or methods
E. Corrections
IX. Critiquing jazz dance choreography - what to look for in a jazz
dance piece.
Topics for repeating students: Although some concepts, techniques, and
movement vocabulary will be reviewed, the specific choreography of the
movement sequences included in every phase of the class and the music to
which it is choreographed will vary from semester to semester.
Therefore, information conveyed to meet the demands of that choreography
and the learning experience for the student will vary each semester.
Assignments:
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Homework (averaging 1 hour per week per unit):
1. Weekly practice of instructor choreography and dance skills covered
in class sessions
2. Choreography of a jazz dance solo
3. Performance of exercises to strengthen and/or stretch muscle groups
required to execute dance movements
4. Written critique of a dance piece or performance approved by
instructor. Note: Critique is based on a performance occurring during
the current semester, or for video viewing option, instructor will
provide or approve a video.
5. Reading of class hand-outs (2 to 4 pages total)
In class assignments include:
1. Jazz dance technique class activities assessed in terms of technique
and performance. (class performances)
2. 1 to 3 performance exams
3. Note-taking when appropriate
4. Practice sessions
5. Written final exam
Optional assignments:
1. Jazz dance video viewing and analysis
2. Partner activities focusing on dance technique
3. Student choreography work sessions
4. Rehearsing of choreography for performance
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
5 - 11% |
| Critique | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
40 - 60% |
| Class performances, Performance exams, Choreography assignment | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
5 - 11% |
| Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion, Short answer or essay | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
20 - 40% |
| Attendance and participation | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Instructor prepared materials
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