Dance (LINES/Dominican)
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Dominican University of California and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet School will in fall 2006 offer a unique joint educational program: the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance. The BFA in dance program will combine Dominican’s comprehensive liberal arts education with the technically rigorous and artistically expansive dance training of Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet School. Classes will be held in San Rafael and in downtown San Francisco.
The LINES/Dominican BFA in Dance program will offer a curriculum that combines intensive ballet training with improvisation and composition studies, said Marina Hotchkiss, BFA program director. “In the professional dance world, companies are increasingly demanding that dancers possess a wide range of skills and knowledge beyond ballet technique. Today’s ballet dancers are being asked to improvise, to generate dance material and participate in the creative processes of dance making to a greater degree than ever before.”
The curriculum will include ballet, modern dance, ethnic dance, Gyrotonic ®/Gyrokinesis ®, dance history, improvisation, composition, acting, percussion, expository writing, speech and rhetoric, math, anatomy/kinesiology, social sciences, ethics, and a cultural heritage colloquium. A significant portion of each semester will be devoted to the study of the choreography of Alonzo King, taught by many of the dancers on whom the works were originally created. Choreographers - from within the Bay Area dance community and from abroad, will be invited to set works on the students and share their points of view. The culmination of the creative work of the program will be a Senior Project. Building on the knowledge and skills developed throughout the program, students will develop and complete a work of choreography to be presented to the community.
Curriculum and Course Descriptions:
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Contact Us:
Marina Hotchkiss
Program Director, Dance
marina.hotchkiss@dominican.edu
415.863.3040 ext. 281
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Craig Singleton
Chair, Department of Music and Performing Arts
singleton@dominican.edu
415.485.3275
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