Street Dance Forms . DANCE 143A
Focuses on the various forms of street dance: Hip Hop, House Dance, Popping, Locking, Whacking, Punking, Voguing, and Freestyle. Students learn the physical lexicon of the various styles, and are immersed in the cultural aspects of the forms, contextualizing the dances both historically and socially. With a strong focus on accurately embodying the essence of each style, the class breaks down the initiation of motion and pathways of energy that result in these unique and specialized modes.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
2
UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNone
Level LimitLetters and science
College
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3
2.7
Easy grader, fun class
Not a particularly hard class. Only complaint is that there's no time given in-class to work on the group final, which made things difficult. However, the professor was pretty passionate on the subject, which is admirable. Really the only major issue was that the final can be kind of ambiguous.
Have not taken a jazz class prior to this. Fun sometimes but made me uncomfortable when calling individuals out multiple times.
Valerie Huston
4.3