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Dec 03, 2024
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Dance BA
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Do you love that feeling when your body moves perfectly across the stage or studio? Do you stay awake at night thinking about how to choreograph routines? Do you want to spend your life performing, directing or teaching dance?
If so, then majoring in dance might be right for you. It’s a program that will keep you on your toes-both literally and metaphorically. So if you want a lifetime of doing what you love (with people who love it as much as you do), then it’s time to take the next step.
Visit the Dance academic program page for more information about the academic experience, who you will learn from, opportunities outside of class and what you can do with this degree.
Visit the Theatre and Dance department page for contact information, a brief overview of the department and the curricular options.
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Admission Criteria
Admission for the Dance BA major requires an audition. Please visit the Audition Registration to schedule an audition.
Prerequisite Courses (14 credits)
Dance Core (34-36 credits)
One Technique Sequence (10 credits)
Complete one sequence through level 6 in Ballet, Modern or Jazz:
Notes
* Course fees are associated with Ballet and Modern technique courses
Total Credits Required for Major: 58-60
Additional Degree Requirements Include:
- Additional coursework to fulfill UB Curriculum requirements
- Elective courses as needed to complete the 120 credit hour total
Total Credits Required for Graduation: 120
Total Credit Hours Required represents the minimum credits needed to complete this program, and may vary based on a number of circumstances. This should not be used for financial aid purposes.
Academic Requirements
- Audition
- Minimum GPA of 2.000 overall
- Minimum GPA of 2.500 in the prerequisite courses
- A minimum grade of C+ is necessary in all required courses.
Transfer Credit Policy
Students will be placed in the appropriate level of technique courses based on this evaluation, which may not correspond directly to student’s academic year. A core requirement of the Dance Program is the students’ practical work on and in productions. As performers, students need to be in residence at UB in order to complete degree requirements.
Curricular Plan
A Curricular Plan provides a roadmap for completing this academic program and the UB Curriculum on time. Your actual plan may vary depending on point of entry to the university, course placement and/or waivers based on standardized test scores, earned alternative credit and/or college transfer credit.
Total Credits Required: 120
Note: Some classes may count toward both a major and UB Curriculum requirement.
Learning Outcomes
Students will demonstrate: in studio classes and performances technical proficiency and performance ability in diverse/broad range of movement disciplines and styles. Students will be able to do the following:
Diversified Technique Methodologies
- Demonstrate and instruct technical skills, rhythmic acuity moving musically and dynamically
- Incorporate instructional strategies to develop cognitive complexity in insightful use of dance vocabulary
- Demonstrate and develop instructional strategies for teaching the concepts of placement, elevation, control and style
- Demonstrate and develop instructional strategies for teaching the concepts of coordination, use of weight, directional focus
- Demonstrate and develop instructional strategies for teaching an understanding of musical accompaniment
- Demonstrate and develop instructional strategies for teaching the theories of diversified techniques 18 Dance Technique courses, from lower to upper levels that include: Ballet (6 levels), Modern (6 levels), Jazz (6 levels}. Students choose to take one of the above discipline through the 6th level and the remaining up to level 2, In addition students complete two levels of Tap
Cultural & Historical
- Demonstrate a knowledge of historical facts, as well as social and cultural issues that influenced development of dance as an art form
- Discuss, articulate, express, and debate a variety of cultural movement contexts technically, historically, philosophically, and aesthetically
- Examine and communicate the importance of dance history in relation to other arts, social and political concerns that influenced the dancers and choreographers of the time
- Discuss the role of dance in various cultures and historical periods
- Research theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to dance arts and aesthetics
Choreography, Composition and Improvisation
- Apply choreographic principles, processes, and structures to create original work that exhibits choreographic intent
- Investigate and generate new movement solutions and constructively apply feedback to rework, revise, and refine choreography
- Verbally articulate informed ideas about choreography and dance performance
- Incorporate the process of movement exploration, concept development, manipulation of ideas, to generating original choreography for performance
(HEGIS: 10.08 DANCE, CIP: 50.0301 Dance, General)
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