Summer Dance Courses

Course #48799
5/16-6/12/2022 | 4 weeks 
Instructor: Karen McShane-Hellenbrand

This intro course builds understanding and appreciation dance and its’ many facets.  It integrates theoretical, historical, and embodied learning through viewing, reading, reflecting, discussing and finally, creating. The course will develop students as informed audience members and encourage relevance to other disciplines.

Course #48801
MWF 9-10:25 a.m.
6/20-7/31/2022 | 6 weeks 
Instructor: AJ Juarez

This technique class will introduce the Hip Hop form of dance, where students will learn variations of the style, its roots, and its evolution, exploring dance styles that include, House, Popping, Locking, Breaking, Street, Litefeet, and Contemporary Fusion. This is an active course where students will engage with each of these styles through drills, choreography, and some research.

Course #48803
MTWR 1:45-3:30 p.m.
5/23-6/19/2022 | 4 weeks 
Instructor: Michelle Ramos

In this introductory course, students will gain an understanding of yoga as an ancient as well as a contemporary tradition. The course focuses on expanding the intrinsic connections of the physical body with the mind and builds awareness of movement patterns and anatomical alignment.

Course #48805
W 8:15-9:15 a.m.
5/31-7/3/2022 | 5 weeks 
Instructor: Kelsey Macomber

This course introduces students to Pilates, a physical conditioning program that creates balance, improves posture, decompresses joints, and creates elongated, toned muscles. The exercises in this course focus on core strength, breath, and a flexible spine.

Course #48806
MTWR 1-3:20 p.m.
5/23-6/19/2022 | 4 weeks 
Instructor: Megan Quinlan

In this course students will learn about the various ways we experience our world through our bodies, and what meanings are made in those experiences. Through readings and discussion, students will ask how bodies ‘write’ ideas through movement. Students will learn how scholars engage with these ideas from different theoretical points of view to analyze performances. The course will focus on critical theories of race, gender, and crises to approach performative events, experiences, and behaviors as sites of learning and knowledge.

Course #48807
MTWRF 9-10:40 a.m.
5/23-6/12/2022 | 3 weeks
Instructor: Cameron McKinney

Guest artist Cameron McKinney will teach the Nagare Technique, a contemporary floorwork-based technique that combines the grace of modern with the speed and fluidity of streetdance, capoeira, and house dance. The class activates oppositional forces and contrasting sensations to achieve fluid transitions in and out of the floor. Phrases will involve every part of the body, whether in the air or on the ground. The class focuses on how to move from smoothly high to low, and on how to rediscover “the down” through the floorwork-oriented aspects of house dance , capoeira, and contemporary dance. By shifting the focus from an internal dialogue to creating movement that, in its own physicality, can tell a story by itself, the class will delve deeper into the cathartic potential of sweat and exhaustion, while offering a new and active method of expression.

MTWR 9:30 a.m. -1 p.m.
Course #48808
5/31-7/3/2022 | 5 weeks
Instructor: Collette Stewart, Kelsey Macomber
Prereq: Dance 236

Experience in teaching Pilates, which includes private, semi-private, and small group sessions.Gives student-teachers class structure formats, including an understanding of the instructor to student relationship, pacing of class sessions, and the physical detail with which Pilates is taught.

Course #48810
5/23-6/19/2022 | 4 weeks
Instructor: Lauren Gerlowski
Prereq: Sophomore standing

This online lecture course examines the role of dance as a cultural form of expression within the political sphere. It draws on a variety of case studies ranging from popular dance TV shows, to European modern dance and from hip-hop to dancing at public protests and asks the question of what constitutes dance and what is its social and political function?

Course #48811
6/13-7/24/2022 | 6 weeks
Instructor: Chris Walker
Satisfies Ethnic Studies req
Prereq: Sophomore standing

This course will explore the rich music and dance heritage of some of the West African peoples in the context of their dynamic historical, artistic and political cultures prior to and including the intense European expansion into West Africa beginning in the fifteenth century. We will consider the aesthetics and values of the West African culture as reflected in the dance, art, sculpture and study how these continued, and yet were changed by, the powerful forces of the Diaspora experience such as slavery, oppression, and enforced conversion in nearly all aspects of human life.

Course #48815
MTWRF 11 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
5/23-6/12/2022 | 3 weeks
Instructor: Cameron McKinney

Guest artist Cameron McKinney will set work on students to be performed on the last class day in the H’Doubler Performance Space.

Course #47733
MTWR 11 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
5/23-6/19/2022 | 4 weeks
Instructor: Michelle Ramos

This laboratory dance course consists of ballet technique & artistic performance. The first half of each class focuses on ballet training to prepare the body for the variations to be performed. The second half is dedicated to the exploration of the theatrical, historical & musical relationships connected to each variation danced in the studio. Specific character roles and variations from the ballets: Paquita & La Fille mal gardée will be studied.