Fall 2022

Dance Technique: Beginning/Intermediate Hip Hop

Listed in: Theater and Dance, as THDA-122H

Description

This course is designed to focus on the movement aspect of hip hop culture. Dance in the tradition of B-Boys and B-girls while learning a wide variety of hip hop movement. From the old school "bronx" style to commercial hip hop, learn a wide range of hip-hop vocabulary in a course emphasizing group choreography, floor work, and partner work. No previous dance experience is necessary. Class will incorporate funk, street, b-boy/b-girl, and house elements to stretch and tone the body. Class will include across the floor and center combinations which will ask the dancers to find their relationship to musicality, athleticism, dynamics, and articulation of the body.

Fall semester and spring semester. The Department.

How to handle overenrollment: null

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: This course will involve regular attendance and class participation, class discussion, reading, viewing and writing assignments, group work outside of class, rehearsal or other artistic assignments, as well as physical or vocal performance work and/or visual, aural, and physical analysis as applicable. Attendance at performances outside of class may also be required.

THDA 122H - LEC

Section 01
M 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM WEBS 122
W 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM WEBS 122

This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.

ISBN Title Publisher Author(s) Comment Book Store Price
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation Picador; First edition Jeff Chang paperback TBD

Offerings

Other years: Offered in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2025