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Technique Enrollment Policy
(1/24/08)
To ensure an optimal learning environment for all students, to ensure that Dance majors can meet graduation requirements in a timely manner, to ensure fairness for all students, and to make the best use of faculty time, the Department of Dance will follow the procedure detailed below for pre-registration in Fall, 2008 Ballet and Contemporary classes.
Department of Dance
About the Department of Dance
At the Dance Department at UNCG, we believe that the field of dance needs many different kinds of professionals with diverse strengths and points of view. Rather than trying to make a standardized product, we recognize that students enter the Department as individuals, and will pursue diverse pathways and accomplish different outcomes. We facilitate students' journeys through a number of programs with common concerns: the lived experience of dancing, creative and critical engagement with performance and choreography as expressive mediums, and the development of the individual in relationship to community.
We believe in bodily knowledge as an important way of knowing, not just for dancers, but for all people, and in the aesthetic and social discourses of performance and choreography. We also realize that bodily engagement and creative thinking must be accompanied by self reflection and critical engagement. Our place in a liberal arts institution is valued because it fosters an engagement with the world and development of artistic, intellectual, political, social, and moral perspectives.
To make dance part of a productive life students need to expand their interests and possibilities, pushing their understanding of what might be achieved through a life in this field. We help students identify their individual strengths, weaknesses, passions, and values, and facilitate the development of skills and attitudes necessary to achieve their goals. Life experience promotes strong perspectives as artists, teachers, and scholars, and facilitates connections between dance and other realms of inquiry.
Dance is, by its nature, a community art, one that requires collaboration and cooperation. Students need to learn to play different roles at different times, understanding the importance of crew members, stage managers, teachers, technologists, performers, choreographers, informed audience members, critics, scholars, and others to the dance experience. We believe that students should develop a sense of responsibility for themselves and the communities in which they participate. Beyond the immediacy of the Department, we strive to make students aware of other communities of which they are a part, and their responsibility to support and respect others.
Revised May, 2008
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