Dance Production - DAN 161
https://courses.vccs.edu/courses/DAN161-DanceProduction
Effective: 2022-05-01
Course Description
Focuses on the creative and business-related aspects of producing a dance performance. Teaches basic skills such as lighting, costuming, music, and choreography.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
The course outline below was developed as part of a statewide standardization process.
General Course Purpose
DAN 161 provides opportunities for students to excel in dance performance production and choreography.
Course Objectives
- Critical Thinking
- Improve ability to observe, analyze, and embody the required movement language of the dance with increasing speed and accuracy
- Develop greater artistry in the treatment and/or interpretation of new movement material
- Communication
- Develop communication skills needed for marketing and outreach
- Develop communication skills needed when directing a cast
- Performance Planning Skills
- Improve ability to contribute to the creative process as a performer by investing one's complete attention and intelligence in executing the work-in-progress, and/or through participating in movement development at the direction of the choreographer
- Develop aesthetic and creative flexibility in the practical application of technique to a specific choreography
- Technical Performance Elements
- Identify and relate the components and essentials of a dance performance
- Plan production elements such as audio, set, lighting, costuming, management, etc
- Business Elements
- Plan components of a dance performance such as marketing, outreach, budget, scheduling, and executing the program
Major Topics to be Included
- Performance Planning Skills
- Technical Performance Elements
- Business Elements