BC3 Academic Catalog: 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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PHED 127 - Dance Fundamentals 1 Credits: (3 lab)
Course Description
This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to develop a basic skill level in fundamental dance movements. Students will explore the elements of dance through creative activities and have movement experiences in folk, square and social dance. Students will gain an understanding and appreciation of dance as an academic discipline in addition to its importance as an art form, entertainment, and life-long social activity.
Text
Penrod, James, and Janice Gudde Plastino. The Dancer Prepares: Modern Dance for Beginners. 5th ed. McGraw Hill, 2005.
Objectives
The student will be able to:
A. Incorporate the elements of time, space, and energy in various dances.
B. Perform dance steps, movement combinations, and selected dances in individual, group, and partner dances.
C. Explain the cultural, historical, ethnic, and educational backgrounds of various types of dance.
Content
A. Primary elements of dance, including the body, space, time and energy
B. Basic components of rhythm, motion factors and fundamental dance steps
C. Background information, and movement experiences in modern educational dance, American folk dance, international folk dance and 20th Century social dance
D. Social, historical and cultural significance of dance as an art and a social-recreational activity
E. Basic teaching techniques and instructional methods utilized in teaching dance including teacher command, guided discovery and problem solving
Student Evaluation
A. Performance incorporating the elements of time, space, and energy in various dances to the satisfaction of the instructor
B. Performance incorporating fundamental dance steps and movement combinations with accuracy of rhythm and style
C. Completion of a paper including the historical, cultural, ethnic, and educational backgrounds of modern, American folk, international folk, square, and social dances
Bibliography
Ambrosio, Nora. Learning about Dance: Dance as an Art Form and Entertainment. 4th ed. Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 2006. Print.
Bennett, John Price, Pamela Coughenour Reimer. Rhythmic Activities and Dance. 2nd ed. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2006. Print.
Kogan, Sheila. Step by Step: A Complete Movement Education Curriculum. 2nd ed. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2004. Print.
Laufman, Dudley, and Jacqueline Laufman. Traditional Barn Dances with Calls and Fiddling. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2009. Print.
Minton, Sandra Cerney. Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation. 3rd ed. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2007. Print.
Pittman, Anne, Marlys S. Waller, and Cathy L. Dark. Dance a While - A Handbook for Folk, Square, Contra, and Social Dance. 10th ed. San Francisco: Pearson, 2009. Print.
Pomer, Janice. Dance Composition: An Interrelated Arts Approach. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2009. Print.
Schrader, Constance A. A Sense of Dance: Exploring Your Movement Potential. 2nd ed. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2005. Print.
Sofras, Pamela. Dance Composition Basics. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2006. Print.
Sprague, Marty, Helene Scheff, and Susan McGreevy-Nichols. Dance about Anything. Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2007. Print.
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