Course Description
Studio course facilitating accelerated skills, freestyle movement, and surveying of various street dance and hip hop traditions including breaking, poppin, lockin, and party dances. These skills will be addressed mainly through physical practice in class and includes readings, viewings, listening, and an off-campus community event to understand the cultural context of hip hop dance. Classes will perform tasks and battle in each evaluation, as well as in the final exam.\n
When Taught
Fall
Fixed/Max
1.5
Fixed
4.5
Fixed
0
Prerequisite
Complete ALL of the following Courses:
- 12647-001
Other Prerequisites
Instructor Approval
Title
Embodied Spiritual Awareness
Learning Outcome
You will reflect on and articulate body, mind, and spirit connections as they manifest in street dance and hip-hop practices, fostering deeper gratitude for creative expression as part of your divine identity. (Spiritually Strengthening)
Title
Technical and Cultural Foundations
Learning Outcome
You will identify and embody foundational movement vocabulary from several street dance and hip-hop styles, developing both technical knowledge and contextual understanding of the artistic, cultural, and musical frameworks that shape these forms. (Intellectually Enlarging)
Title
Improvisation and Character Development
Learning Outcome
You will improvise within street dance frameworks at an intermediate-advanced level, cultivating personal style, self-discipline, and confidence while respecting the cultural origins and integrity of these communities. (Character Building)
Title
Creative Adaptability and Lifelong Learning
Learning Outcome
You will interpret movement vocabulary, qualities, and musicality into your own freestyle practice, cyphers, and battles strengthening creative adaptability and building skills that support ongoing growth as an artist. (Lifelong Learning)
Title
Research, Representation, and Community Engagement
Learning Outcome
Students will syYou will recognize and identify significant people, places, and events that shaped street dance and hip-hop, and you will synthesize issues of culture, race, appropriation, and community through a personal research project and presentation, contributing to more informed and respectful artistic communities. (Service & Community Engagement)nthesize and evaluate implications of culture, race, appropriation, and community as it applies to street dance styles through a personal research project and presentation.
