School
Liberal Arts
Division
Fine & Performing Arts
Department
Dance
Academic Level
Undergraduate
Course Subject
Dance
Course Number
142
Course Title
Intermediate Ballet
Credit Hours
2.00
Instructor Contact Hours Per Semester
47.00 (for 15-week classes)
Student Contact Hours Per Semester
47.00 (for 15-week classes)
Grading Method
A-E
Pre-requisites
DNCA-141 or Instructor Permission
Catalog Course Description
Continues the study of ballet via an expanded and more challenging movement vocabulary. More complex combinations at the barre, at the centre and through the dance space are explored. Skill is also acquired through the understanding of skeletal-muscular anatomy and function involved in dance. Care of the body and conditioning for dance is emphasized.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
Goal Statement
To develop skill with more complex combinations of Ballet movement beyond the beginning level and to condition a body that is capable of more advanced level work.
Core Course Topics
- Vocabulary
- Identify intermediate Ballet vocabulary in French and in English from a given demonstration.
- Technique and purpose
- Execute movement terms with correct technique and explain their purpose.
- Combinations and phrases
- Execute movement combinations and phrases at the barre and at the centre.
- Turns
- Demonstrate skill/technique with selected turns.
- Ballet Artists
- Discuss a major artist/contributor to Ballet choreography or dancing.
- Skeletal-muscular structures and functions
- Label and apply skeletal-muscular anatomy, function, and conditioning to dance.
- Body conditioning
- Self evaluate fitness and body condition as it applies to dance skill.*
- Musicality
- Execute accurate musicality with all basic movement vocabulary, combinations and phrases.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessment of Academic Achievement
- Written Exam: movement identification in French and English translation from a given demonstration.
- Written Exam:state and explain movement vocabulary purposes. Movement Exam: execute technique from given movement vocabulary.
- Movement Exam: demonstrate skill/technique with given combinations and phrases.
- Movement Exam: demonstrate skill/technique in turning.
- Choreographer/Dancer Presentation: oral, written, video class presentation of an artist.
- Written Exam: Identify skeletal and muscular structures and explain their function as they apply to dance movement.
- Fitness Testing: pre and post testing for muscular endurance, strength, balance and flexibility.
- Written Exam: define musical terms. Movement exam: Execute selected movement with correct musicality/rhythm/timing.
Texts
Ballet Basics, 5th ed., Sandra Hammond
Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Other Details
Determined by department.
Approval Dates
Effective Term
Summer 2014
Review Semester
Summer 2014