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Program Description
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The dance department offers a full complement of
technique courses for the full-time dance student, the liberal arts
student, as well as the adult student seeking personal enrichment.
The department offers an A.A. degree, and a certificate in dance.
The student who earns an A.A. degree in dance can transfer to a
university and continue his/her dance education by earning an
advanced degree in dance. Many of the courses offered transfer to
the UC and CSU systems as well private universities. Classes are
currently offered from 8am to 9:30pm Monday through Friday as well
as Saturday classes.
High school dance day is offered at Grossmont College and provides
the opportunity for high school students and their teachers to
participate in three technique classes as well as a dance history
presentation. The workshop culminates in a mini-dance concert which
highlights Grossmont College dance students. This project is offered
in the fall semester.
Dance Outreach Day is structured as a
lecture-demonstration-performance for middle and high school
students. The lecture demonstration highlights a variety of genres,
including modern, jazz, hip-hop, ballet and tap. Discussions relate
to style and composition and movement invention. Improvisational
movement studies involve selected high school students, and are
directed by Grossmont faculty. This project is offered in the spring
semester.
Master classes are offered to Grossmont College students as well as
the community at large. Instructors are selected based on their
expertise and mastery of the genre. Class offerings include styles
taught within the department (ballet, jazz, modern, tap, musical
theater, ballroom) as well as those genres not yet offered (african,
flamenco, etc).
The department provides a variety of performance opportunities which
are offered for beginning to advanced students. The dance faculty
encourages students to audition for appropriate performance; dance
concerts, musicals, and events produced by the music department.
The department offers courses in pedagogy which are tied to the
advanced technique classes and direct students in the analysis of
movement exercises, logical structure of class, and movement
progression for each technique. Many of these students land teaching
positions at studios as well as parks and recreation programs after
completion of these courses.
The Dance History course meets the general education requirement for
Fine Arts in General Education and satisfies the undergraduate
history requirement for dance major (AA. Degree recipients and
transfer students).
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