DANC 10
Funk Styles/Hip-Hop Dance Winter 2019

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This course will focus on the foundations of Hip-Hop as dance and as culture. The techniques of lockin’, poppin’, breakin’, 90’s and house dance as well as terminology and history. Technique class will include across the floor and center combinations allowing dancers to find their relationship to athleticism, dynamics and articulation of the body. We will also view and discuss media and literature that contextualizes Hip-Hop, deepens understanding of the form as dance and embodied history. Students will journal to reflect and record information. Technique class will meet three times a week followed by a required rehearsal of choreography that will be created. The expected contact hours will meet the required average of 20 weekly.
The Class: Format: afternoons; required practice times are 10am-11:50am (Technique and Context), 11:50am-1pm (Lunch Break), 1pm-3pm (Practice)
Limit: 20
Grading: pass/fail only
Requirements/Evaluation: final performance
Prerequisites: some experience in any type of dance form or athletics and an interest in the history of Hip-Hop
Enrollment Preferences: instructor will contact waitlisted people via email to determine
Materials/Lab Fee: $25 plus cost of books
Attributes: EXPE Experiential Education Courses

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