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• DANC 254 Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves 3 credits

  This course positions jazz and related social dance styles as forms with African diasporic roots and American branches. Composed of 60% in-class movement investigation and 40% both in-class and out of class reading, viewing, writing, and creating, Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves will ask students to invest in how the elements of groove, improvisation and interaction unite different approaches to jazz and make it a form that appreciates the past, centers the present and innovates for the future. Some dance experience recommended.

  • Offered: Winter 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: Arts Practice
  • Tags: Theater Practical Dance Movement Practice Perfor Dance History Theory Literatur Africana Studies Arts Practice Amst Race Ethnicity Indigeneit Amst Prodctn Consmptn Culture

  • DANC  254.00 Winter 2024

  • Faculty:Erinn Liebhard 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • M, WWeitz Center 165 9:50am-11:00am

• DANC 301 West African Dance 2 credits

  In this class you will be introduced to traditional West African dance movement accompanied by live drumming. A variety of dynamics such as grounding, centeredness, and footwork will be addressed. Each class will cover the cultural background of the rhythm as well as the conversation between drummer and dancer. All levels are welcome to join in this vigorous experience of West African dance forms.

  • Offered: Fall 2023
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: Arts Practice
  • Tags: Africana Studies Arts Practice Dance Movement Practice Perfor

  • DANC  301.00 Fall 2023

  • Faculty:Whitney McClusky 🏫 👤
  • Size:20
  • Grading:S/CR/NC
  • SWeitz Center 165 10:00am-12:00pm

• MUSC 192 West African Drum Ensemble 1 credits

  Participants will learn basic playing techniques, drum patterns, and polyrhythmic structures by playing in djembe-centered percussion ensembles based on repertoire from Mali. The teaching and learning style will be primarily oral/aural and “by doing”. Course objectives include an informal public performance toward the end of the semester. A highlight will be rehearsing and a brief but intense joint performance with a group of professional guest artists from Mali, who will share their concert stage with us for a piece.

  • Offered: Spring 2024
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: Arts Practice International Studies
  • Prerequisites:

    Prior experience in drumming/percussion is helpful but not required. A division into subgroups (e.g., beginners and advanced) is possible according to need.

  • Tags: Acad Cvc Engmnt/Appl Africana Studies Arts Practice Music Ensemble

  • MUSC  192.00 Spring 2024

  • Faculty:Dave Schmalenberger 🏫 👤
  • Size:15
  • T, THWeitz Center M027 3:10pm-4:10pm