DAN 107 - Tap Dance: Practice, Performance, and Survey

This course provides students with instruction in fundamental tap dance techniques and crucial historical tap dance repertoire; and introduces students to the cultures and people that created the form. Students learn a variety of dances including the stories and social circumstances surrounding their making. The course delivers to students the technical exercises to build and strengthen vocabulary and improvisational opportunities to gain a deeper and more personal relationship with the material. Students participate in performances in order to put their skills into practice. Satisfies the Aesthetics Awareness and Creative Expression General Education requirement.

(Cr: 1)