Course Description:

          

Through guided study, students refine their creative process in developing a dance from idea/conception to concert performance. The culmination of this course for each student is to present their senior capstone choreography and produce the Emerging Choreographers: Senior Capstone Dance Concert held April 17-19 in the Maggie Allesee Studio Theatre. This concert represents the final choreographic project for students’ undergraduate degree in dance; therefore, the expectation is that the student will work to make these dances as finely crafted and fully realized as possible. Each student’s work should be at least eight minutes in length, but no longer than twelve minutes. Dance Education Option:  Students pursuing dance education certification may elect to choreograph two separate works, with each being no less than four minutes in length. This concert may include emerging, invited guest choreographers agreed upon and approved by the instructor(s).

In addition, a Digital Dance Portfolio (DDP) is required of each Capstone student. The DDP is a digital archive of a student’s work. The DDP is an individualized self-reflection of the efforts, progress, and achievement throughout a student’s BS/BFA degree work in areas such as choreography, performance, teaching and research.  The compressed archive will be outputted as a DVD-Rom and personal Web Site to serve as a ‘living document” that evolves with the student.

All Capstone students will be responsible for organization and production of the concert including: rehearsal (scheduling, direction, and weekly showings); publicity (poster, program, press release); production (costume and lighting design); and program (concept and order).

Based on each student’s experience and expertise in choreographic craft, this course emphasizes the creative process and the development and refinement of process skills as explored by the instructor and students.

Instructor: Kelly Gottesman