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Your search for courses · during 25FA, 26WI, 26SP · tagged with DANC Movement Practice & Performance · returned 19 results
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DANC 107 Ballet I 1 credits
A beginning course in ballet technique, including basic positions, beginning patterns and exercises. Students develop an awareness of the many ways their body can move, an appreciation of dance as an artistic expression and a recognition of the dancer as an athlete.
- Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 107.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 9:50am-11:00am
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DANC 107.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 9:50am-11:00am
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DANC 107.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 9:50am-11:00am
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DANC 147 Moving Anatomy 1 credits
This course seeks to provide an underlying awareness of body structure and function. Using movement to expand knowledge of our anatomy will encourage participants to integrate information with experience. Heightened body awareness and class studies are designed to activate the general learning process.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 147.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Elayna Waxse 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 12:30pm-1:40pm
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DANC 148 Modern Dance I: Technique and Theory 1 credits
A physical exploration at the introductory level of the elements of dance: time, motion, space, shape and energy. Students are challenged physically as they increase their bodily awareness, balance, control, strength and flexibility and get a glimpse of the art of dance.
- Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 148.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 9:20am-10:30am
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DANC 148.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 9:20am-10:30am
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DANC 148.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 9:20am-10:30am
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DANC 150 Contact Improvisation 1 credits
This is a course in techniques of spontaneous dancing shared by two or more people through a common point of physical contact. Basic skills such as support, counterbalance, rolling, falling and flying will be taught and developed in an environment of mutual creativity.
- Fall 2025, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 150.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Kristin Van Loon 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 12:30pm-1:40pm
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DANC 150.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Arwen Wilder 🏫 · Kristin Van Loon 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 12:30pm-1:40pm
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DANC 158 Contemporary Dance Forms I 1 credits
This course provides an introduction to a variety of movement approaches that develop an awareness of the body in space and moving through space. Students will learn approaches designed to strengthen muscles, support joint mobility, find breath support, enhance coordination, and encourage embodied learning.
- Fall 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 158.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Elayna Waxse 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 1:50pm-3:00pm
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DANC 171 Dance for Musical Theater 1 credits
This course focuses on development and execution of dance and performance skills as they relate to musical theater dance styles. Students will learn how to use dance as a method of storytelling to gain a better understanding of how dance and choreography create and bring dramatic elements to life. This course will also include some beginning tap steps.
- Fall 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 171.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 10:40am-11:50am
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DANC 189 Music Theatre Practicum 1 credits
This course is designed for dancers who have auditioned and been cast for the Theater and Dance Department musical. Students will learn and rehearse choreography for the show and will perform in the mainstage musical theater production. To register students will waitlist for the course and then enroll with permission from the instructor. Students taking this course should plan to register for THEA 190 in the term of the performance (the following term).
Extra Time Required: Rehearsal with the entire cast, including all technical & Dress rehearsals and performances in the Spring Term.
Waitlist Only
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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This course requires an audition and permission from the instructor.
To request permission, follow the instructions for requesting a prerequisite override.
Please note: the link will open in a new window. Once you have received permission from the instructor, you will be able to return to this page to register for the course.
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DANC 189.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Grading:S/CR/NC
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Extra Time Required: Rehearsal with the entire cast, including all technical & Dress rehearsals and performances in the Spring Term.
Waitlist Only
The meeting time for this course will be determined after registration when all participants can be consulted on their availability. Please reach out to the instructor with any questions.
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DANC 200 Modern Dance II: Technique and Theory 1 credits
A continuation of Level I with more emphasis on the development of technique and expressive qualities.
- Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 200.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 10:40am-11:50am
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DANC 200.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 10:40am-11:50am
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DANC 205 Winter Dance 1 credits
Intensive rehearsal and performance of a work commissioned from professional guest choreographer. The class will culminate in a performance in the Spring Term, so students taking this course should plan to register for DANC 206 in Spring. Open to all levels.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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DANC 205.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center 165 6:30pm-8:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 10:00am-12:00pm
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DANC 206 Spring Dance 1 credits
Rehearsal and full concert performance of student dance works created during the year and completed in the spring term. Open to all levels.
- Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): DANC 205 or DANC 215 or DANC 350 with a grade of C- or better.
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DANC 206.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center 165 4:30pm-5:30pm
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DANC 208 Ballet II 1 credits
For the student with previous ballet experience. This course emphasizes articulation of technique and development of ballet vocabulary.
- Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 208.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 11:10am-12:20pm
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DANC 208.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 11:10am-12:20pm
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DANC 208.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 11:10am-12:20pm
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DANC 210 Contemporary Dance Forms II 1 credits
This course is intended for students seeking to refine and deepen their awareness of embodied movement approaches. Through these approaches, students will work to develop an alert and articulate body. In both standing and floor work, momentum, dynamic shifts and spatial challenges are introduced.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 210.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Elayna Waxse 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 1:50pm-3:00pm
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DANC 215 Winter Dance, Student Choreography 1 credits
For students enrolled in Dance 205, supervised student choreography with two public showings.
Requires concurrent registration in DANC 205
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice
- DANC 205: Winter Dance
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DANC 215.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TWeitz Center 165 8:00pm-8:30pm
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DANC 253 Movement for the Performer 3 credits
This course investigates the structure and function of the body through movement and how it can be applied to the stage work of an actor, dancer and or singer. Included will be a variety of somatic and performance approaches (Alexander Technique, improvisation Viewpoints, stage combat). The emphasis will be to discover effortless movement, body awareness, balance in the body and an integration of self in moving.
- Fall 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 253.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WWeitz Center 165 9:50am-11:00am
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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.
- Winter 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 254.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Erinn Liebhard 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 165 9:50am-11:00am
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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.
- Fall 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 301.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Whitney McClusky 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THWeitz Center 165 3:10pm-4:20pm
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DANC 309 Ballet III 1 credits
This is an advanced class for students who have some capabilities and proficiency in ballet technique. Content is sophisticated and demanding in its use of ballet vocabulary and musical phrasing.
- Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 309.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Jennifer Bader 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 168 12:30pm-1:40pm
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DANC 310 Contemporary Dance Forms III 1 credits
This advanced course will continue to focus on a variety of embodied movement approaches to refine the awareness of the moving body and prepare for the rigors of performance and physical research. The aim will be on finding a personal connection to movement through subtlety, speed and effort.
- Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 310.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Elayna Waxse 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 1:50pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350 Semaphore Repertory Dance Company 1 credits
Provides advanced dance students with an intensive opportunity to develop as performers in professional level dances. Skills to be honed are: the dancer as contributor to the process of art-making; defining individual technical and expressive gifts; working in a variety of new technical and philosophical dance frameworks. In addition to regular training during the academic terms, participation in a "preseason" rehearsal period before fall term is required. A few pieces of student choreography will be accepted for repertory. The group produces an annual concert, performs in the Twin Cities and makes dance exchanges with other college groups.
Recommended Preparation: Admission by audition.
Audition required.
- Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
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DANC 350.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- M, WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- M, WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm
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DANC 350.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤 · Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- MWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-4:30pm
- MWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-4:30pm
- WWeitz Center 165 3:30pm-5:30pm
- WWeitz Center 168 3:30pm-5:30pm
- THWeitz Center 165 7:00pm-9:00pm
- THWeitz Center 168 7:00pm-9:00pm
- SWeitz Center 165 12:00pm-3:00pm
- SWeitz Center 168 12:00pm-3:00pm