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The Dance Minor at Davidson

A minor in dance provides students with a range of experiences that encourage creative exploration and critical thinking.

Minors are encouraged to enhance their study at summer dance festivals and intensive workshops. Dance classes are often enhanced by attendance at and participation in the dance performances and opportunities offered in the college and local communities. Dance minors should expect to actively participate in these co-curricular activities.

Courses You Might Take

DAN 242

Haitian Dance Technique I

Instructor
Chapman

In this combined technique and theory course, students will engage in the practice of Haitian dance, and support this embodied learning with study of Haitian artists, history and culture. Bi-weekly physical practice introduces students to the foundations of…

DAN 252

History, Memory,Perf, Place

Instructor
Chapman

What racist and exclusionary legacies on campus must we still contend with? How might both the practice and theory of performance help us understand the unfinished business of history- "the endings that are not over," as sociologist Avery Gordon…

DAN 101

Introduction to Dance

Instructor
Bory, Chapman

An introduction to the discipline of dance studies, this primarily lecture/discussion course investigates dance as a cultural form and as an artistic, meaning-making system. Through lectures, discussions, readings, video screenings, attendance at performances, critical writing, and…

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