DANCE 20 - Jazz-Contemporary Dance, Beginning 1

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    Description
    Students are introduced to beginning skills and terminology of jazz dance technique. The student will integrate beginning positions, isolations, and locomotor movements into full body actions and explore movement qualities, rhythms, and musical phrasing unique to jazz dance. The students will gain an appreciation of their unique bodies in relation to jazz dance as a dynamic art form. Included in this course will be an introduction to the aesthetic, cultural, and historical contexts of jazz dance.