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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 aesthetic points of view. Rather than trying to make a standardized product, we recognize that students come in as individuals, and seek to pursue diverse pathways and accomplish diverse outcomes. With our guidance, each person interweaves his or her own experiences to make a life in dance. We attempt to facilitate students' journeys through a number of programs that have as their center the lived experience of dancing, by which we mean dancing with full engagement, awareness, and presence--an experience that is meaningful and powerful. We recognize body knowledge as an important form of knowing, not just for dancers but for all people.
We strive to give students an appreciation for both excellence and balance. Students need to expand their interests and possibilities, pushing their understanding of what might be achieved through a life in dance. At the same time, students need to recognize that dance is only part of a productive life. We help students identify their individual strengths, weaknesses, passions, and values, and facilitate the development of skills and attitudes necessary to achieve their goals. We further believe that students need to do more than dance. They need to have other life experiences, in order to have something to say as an artist and to make connections between dance, the other arts, and life.
We value our place in a liberal arts institution because we believe that development of an aesthetic point of view means developing a view of the world, which includes political, social, and moral perspectives. Dance is, by its nature, a community art, one which requires collaboration and cooperation. Students need to learn to play different roles at different times, understanding the importance of crew members, stage managers, teachers, performers, choreographers, informed audience members, critics, 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.
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