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EDUCATION 4884
SPECIAL TOPICS: SECONDARY DANCE EDUCATION
Spring Semester, 1990
Instructor:
Ruth Emerson
Wednesdays, 4:30-8:20 p.m.
Phone:
291-3395
Location: MPX 7540 (Gym)
PREREQUISITES
Educ. 401/402 or equivalent or permission of instructor.
Dance experience, though welcome, is not essential.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course, a secondary level continuation of EDUC. 495-4, looks at dance as a
performing art with links to physical education and to the fine arts; theatre, music,
and visual art. In this experiential class students will move together through the
doing, making, and seeing activities from which dance lessons are made. Laban
movement principles of body, effort, shape, space, and relationship will be studied
in terms of understanding how to teach the performance, choreography, and
aesthetic aspects of dance. Rather than being specifically dance technique based,
movement in the course will also incorporate general human activity as a non-
verbal movement language. Students will develop their own lessons and units of
dance.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
class attendance and participation
50%
writing and speaking: including the final
written project; a unit of dance, planned and
presented orally to the class.
50%
REQUIRED TEXT
A xerox packet, to be purchased from the instructor.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Ruth Emerson was an original member of the Judson Dance Theatre in New York,
and a member of the Pearl Lang Dance Company. Ms. Emerson has a Master of
Arts in Dance from the University of Illinois, and she is a Certified Laban
Movement Analyst. In recent years, she has been teaching dance, choreographing,
developing intermediate and secondary arts programs, and directing her own
dance company. In 1988 and 1989 she took the S.F.U. Off-Centre Dance Company
on tour through B.C. schools. She is presently an adjunct professor in the S.F.U.
Dept. of Education.
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