This course helps students learn the intermediate/advanced skills of dance while improving their techniques, poise, self-confidence, and creative ability. Through weekly participation in dance instruction, students will develop personal technical goals for improving dance skills, demonstrate a high level of consistency and reliability in performing technical skills, and develop and refine proficient skills to create a variety of dance with unity.

Students will choreograph and dance regularly in class and/or in public performances. Using personal experience, students will perform and discuss movement, motifs, phrases, and dance compositions with particular attention to how meaning was created. They will apply and demonstrate an intermediate level of knowledge about costume, lighting, and music design within a dance production.

They will develop the ability to self-correct in response to suggestions, demonstrate the ability to establish aesthetic criteria and apply it in evaluating their own work and that of others, and demonstrate an understanding of dance in various cultures and historical periods.