Intensive technique studies are essential to a serious dance student's training. Intending and current dance majors must register for four credits of dance technique each semester of their four years at Bard. Students are welcome to watch classes currently being offered to learn about the different modern dance styles/methods of teaching and the ballet for modern dancers.

One credit each. Classes in modern dance and ballet intended for the beginner; no previous dance experience necessary. Open to all students. In the fall, two classes may be taken for 2 credits which are indivisible: both sections must be passed in order to receive credit. First-year students with previous dance experience should speak with the dance professors before registration.

One credit each. Intensive technique studies are essential to a serious dance student's training. Intending and current dance majors must register for four credits of dance technique each semester of their four years at Bard. The 4 credits are indivisible: all four one credit sections must be passed in order to receive credit for the course. Open to non-majors with experience, inclination, and permission of the instructor.

Dance Composition and Dance Workshop in Performance and Production are required of all dance majors; before Moderation students enroll in both sections of 217 and Dance Workshop for four credits; Juniors and Seniors enroll in 317 and Dance Workshop. Open to non-majors with proven experience, inclination, and permission of the instructor. All students of Dance Composition must attend Dance Workshop in Performance and Production. The Dance Program aims to prepare students, in as versatile a way as possible, to understand and practice the art of dance and performance. To this end, the Program presents four productions that are open to the Bard community and the public. Moderation and Senior Project work is prepared for and performed in these four productions. Dance Workshop in Performance and Production creates and sustains our community of performers and collaborators, on stage and behind the scenes. Members of the community are welcome to join the workshop, and may receive one credit by registering in a tutorial with Jean Churchill.

2 credits An experiential survey course, offering an examination of the great American music and dance traditions. Students explore, for example, how mountain ballads joined with gospel music and blues to become Bluegrass, and how English miners' wooden soled shoe dances joined with Native American and African styles to become "Appalachian clogging." We will examine how Irish reels become hoedowns, how tap dancing was born, and learn to recognize the basic difference between the song and dance styles of the Eastern Woodlands and Plains Native Americans. Protest songs from revolutionary times will be followed through the great labor, civil rights, women's movements and beyond. Students will join their own singing, dancing and playing music to these traditional songs and dances, studying the unifying forces of music and dance in different American communities throughout history. Open to students with some experience in dancing, singing, or playing an instrument. (Enrollment limited to 20)

2 credits While teaching dance composition, it is often useful and necessary to refer to the form, rhythm, and motion in other arts. This course is intended as a means of exploring and discussing these connections, and thus it will cover many kinds of motion. We will learn fundamentals of reading music and basic ear training. We will listen to solo instruments and to the musicians who play them. We will read aloud from Gertrude Stein's Lectures in America, selected poems and excerpts from plays. Students will look at paintings from the point of view of rhythm and texture, and study the motions of plants. Invited guests who are experts in these diverse fields will join in our discussions. Please speak with Prof. Passloff prior to registration.

The course focuses on primary bones, joints, ligaments, and muscles relevant to dancing, the physiology of breathing, and the body as a complex physical system to understand better how to prevent injuries and how to develop a full range of expression with safety and pleasure. The course also includes kinetic awareness techniques that bridge the gap between intellectual understanding of anatomical information and actual experience of the body in movement and so help relieve chronic tension, gain flexibility, and deepen the body-mind connection. Students have the opportunity to work in depth on chronic body problems. Weekly assignments are given. The course is open to students in Dance, Theater or Performance. Enrollment is limited to sixteen students.

By invitation of instructor. Speak with the professor before registration.