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MTSU offers the only Available of Science degree in Trip the light fantastic toe at a public university in Tennessee. The program promotes diverse intellectual and artistic scholarship, while fostering professional person and social excellence in a liberal arts setting. Through studio training, trip the light fantastic studies courses, and curricular and co-curricular activities, our students can be prepared to become artists, scholars, educators, arts advocates and leaders in the field of trip the light fantastic toe and beyond.Admission to the B.S. in Dance is through audience only. Dance study at MTSU emphasizes a holistic approach that rigorously trains the body and engages the mind. Dancers are encouraged to develop creative and disquisitional perspectives. Students are expected to examine the cultural and historical contexts of dance and to develop the abilities to both move and retrieve logically, critically, and creatively, and to communicate clearly.


Guest artists create with MTSU Dance Theatre

Invitee artists create with MTSU Dance Theatre

Every semester, guest artists interact with MTSU's pre-professional dance visitor to stage works for MTSU Dance Theatre. Guest artists spend a full week in residence, instruction classes, giving talks about their artistic process and careers, and rehearsing a select group of students for performance. In recent semesters, students have worked with a range of artists including T. Lang Dance, Jesse Zaritt, Teena Marie Custer, and Dance Magazine "breakout" choreographer Christopher K. Morgan. Guest artist relationships form the foundation of students' future professional networks.

Dance students perform locally, regionally, and internationally

Trip the light fantastic students perform locally, regionally, and internationally

MTSU Dance students share their fine art both on and off campus. In improver to local performance opportunities throughout Tennessee in cities such as Knoxville, Chattanooga, Tullahoma, and recently at The Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville, students travel for regional conferences and festivals, including the American College Trip the light fantastic Clan, the Women in Dance Leadership Conference, and the American Dance Festival. Nationally and internationally students have traveled for training and performance to cities such as New York, Chicago, Denver, Columbus, and Dallas, and internationally to Europe and China. These off-campus opportunities further students' professional feel and agreement of the field.


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Prior to graduation, MTSU students have opportunities to equip themselves with the knowledge, skills, and feel required to attend graduate programs, piece of work in a variety of dance and arts related professions, and contribute to trip the light fantastic toe inside a global society. The emphasis upon national and international work, creative engagement of mind and torso, and a vast array of performance opportunities makes MTSU's Trip the light fantastic toe Plan distinctive in the United States, and the success of our students offers testament to the outstanding and visionary instruction in dance and the arts at Middle Tennessee Land Academy.

MTSU Trip the light fantastic students receive grooming that tin lead to many careers, with graduates finding performance opportunities in professional companies, in the entertainment industry, and as entrepreneurial artists and choreographers. Graduates also teach in studios, schools, and community-based programs, further their education in graduate school and teach at the academy level, and employ their dance cognition to a broad range of fields including do scientific discipline, somatic training practices similar Alexander Technique, and trip the light fantastic therapy.

Employer examples include, but are not limited to,

  • The American School Switzerland
  • Blue Moves
  • Bridging Souls Productions
  • Chattanooga Trip the light fantastic Theatre
  • Christopher Yard. Morgan & Artists
  • Company Rose
  • Disney
  • Kate Weare Company
  • Autumn
  • Inlet Dance Theatre
  • Momentum Dance Lab
  • Numinous Flux
  • Of Bones Brooklyn
  • Studio Tenn

Undergraduate Program

The Theatre and Trip the light fantastic toe Section offers two majors—Theatre and Trip the light fantastic—both of which lead to a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree.

Coursework for the Trip the light fantastic programme includes technique, choreography, performance, trip the light fantastic history and criticism, education, and kinesiology. Dance majors choose i of 2 curricular tracks: Performance and Choreography or Pedagogy in Practice.

For consummate curriculum details, click on the REQUIREMENTS button to the correct.

Undergraduate minors in Dance, Entertainment Arts Design, Musical Theatre, and Theatre are bachelor.

Trip the light fantastic, B.S.

Theatre and Dance
Jade Treadwell, Program Coordinator
615-898-5023
Jade.Treadwell@mtsu.edu

The B.Due south. in Dance provides students with diverse opportunities to develop theoretical and practical applications of dance. The plan is designed to ready students for the profession or farther study at the graduate level. Students should consult with their advisors each semester in social club to program their schedule of courses.

Students majoring in Trip the light fantastic toe must select a track of written report: performance/choreography or dance education in practice.

Admission to the B.S. in Trip the light fantastic toe is through audition just, and students must maintain a ii.0 GPA in all dance course work.

Students audience to be accepted into the Dance major through regularly scheduled auditions every year. For additional data and to register for the audition, contact the trip the light fantastic toe plan coordinator.

Bookish Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Dance, B.S., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

General Instruction 41 hours
Major Requirements 53 hours
     Theory Requirements 18 hours
Cadre Technique Requirements 20 hours
Rail of Study fifteen hours
Electives 26 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

Full general Educational activity (41 hours)

General Education requirements include Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.

NOTE: To enhance their agreement of other art forms, students should choose from Art, MUS, or THEA options in Humanities and/or Fine Arts.

Major Requirements (53 hours)

Theory Requirements (18 hours)

  • DANC 2000 - First Year Seminar in Dance

    3 credit hours

    An overview of the contemporary trip the light fantastic toe scene and its recent history in aesthetics, scholarship, and in the market.

  • DANC 4100 - Choreography I

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Exploration of movement, technique sequences, and choreographic forms; basic elements of note. Offered fall semester simply.

  • DANC 4570 - The Body Intelligent: A Study of the Alexander Technique

    3 credit hours

    (Same as MUS 4570/THEA 4570.) For those interested in improving ease and freedom of motility, residue, back up, flexibility, and coordination in daily activities.

  • DANC 4600 - Dance Kinesiology

    iii credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2010 or DANC 2040. An experiential study of the human trunk in residual and in move. Emphasis on the skeletal and muscular systems in consideration of applications to trip the light fantastic toe performance, educational activity and artistic processes, injury prevention and rehabilitation, nutrition, environmental effects on the man trunk, and the emerging area of dance medicine while preparation for classical ballet and modernistic trip the light fantastic toe.Offered spring semester only.

  • DANC 4800 - History of Dance

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2000  A survey of dance from primitive to the present with an accent on the style and techniques of dance every bit it was performed.Offered fall semester just.

  • DANC 4990 - Senior Seminar in Dance

    three credit hours

    Prerequisite: Successful completion of 75 credit hours and permission of department. A capstone to the dance student'south undergraduate career and preparation for transition to the professional earth or graduate written report. Includes lectures, workshops, professional guest speakers, and discussion sessions. Students volition complete various newspaper-based projects, a capstone enquiry project, resume, and portfolio construction.

Core Technique Requirements (20 hours)

  • DANC 2010 - Modernistic Dance Techniques Ii  2 credit hours

    (4 credit hours required) (4 credit hours required)

      dotslash:(4 credit hours required) title:(iv credit hours required)

    (4 credit hours required)

    DANC 2010 - Modern Trip the light fantastic Techniques II

    2 credit hours

    Intermediate modern trip the light fantastic toe techniques. Meets 3 hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 2040 - Ballet Techniques 2  2 credit hours

    (4 credit hours required) (four credit hours required)

      dotslash:(4 credit hours required) championship:(iv credit hours required)

    (4 credit hours required)

    DANC 2040 - Ballet Techniques Ii

    2 credit hours

    Intermediate ballet techniques. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 3010 - Modern Trip the light fantastic Techniques 3

    two credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2010 or permission of teacher. Intermediate/Advanced studio technique. Meets 4 and half hours per week. May exist repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 3040 - Ballet Techniques Three

    two credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2040. Intermediate/Avant-garde ballet techniques. Meets for three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

Choose 8 credit hours from the following:

  • DANC 1010 - Modern Dance Techniques I

    2 credit hours

    Modern dance techniques; emphasis on exploration of fundamentals of dance every bit a form of artistic communication. For students with little or no previous experience in modern dance. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits.

  • DANC 1020 - Jazz Trip the light fantastic toe Techniques I

    2 credit hours

    Contemporary jazz dance techniques; emphasis on exploration of fundamentals of dance as a form of artistic advice. For students with little or no previous experience in jazz trip the light fantastic. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits.

  • DANC 1030 - Tap Dance Techniques I

    two credit hours

    Tap trip the light fantastic toe techniques; accent on exploration of the fundamentals of dance as a form of artistic communication. For students with trivial or no previous experience in tap dance. Meets three hours per week. May exist repeated for a maximum of 4 credits.

  • DANC 1040 - Ballet Techniques I

    2 credit hours

    Classical ballet techniques; accent on exploration of ballet every bit a classical art course. For students with piffling or no feel in ballet. Meets three hours per week. May exist repeated for a maximum of iv credits.

  • DANC 1090 - Trip the light fantastic Conditioning

    1 credit hour

    The study of a variety of concrete conditioning methods, somatic practices, and injury prevention techniques that promote motion efficiency and concrete development of the dancer's torso.

  • DANC 2020 - Jazz Dance Techniques 2

    2 credit hours

    Intermediate jazz dance techniques. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 2030 - Tap Dance Techniques 2

    two credit hours

    Intermediate tap dance techniques. Meets 3 hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 3010 - Mod Trip the light fantastic toe Techniques Iii

    two credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2010 or permission of instructor. Intermediate/Advanced studio technique. Meets 4 and i-half hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 3020 - Jazz Dance Techniques III

    2 credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2020 or permission of instructor. Intermediate/Advanced jazz dance techniques. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 3030 - Tap Trip the light fantastic toe Techniques Three

    2 credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2030 or permission of instructor. Advanced tap dance techniques. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 3040 - Ballet Techniques III

    ii credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2040. Intermediate/Advanced ballet techniques. Meets for three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 3045 - Pointe/Variations

    1 credit hour

    Prerequisite: DANC 3040 or permission of instructor. Report of pointe work with an emphasis on building forcefulness, coordination, stability, proper alignment, and correct execution within the traditional format of a ballet class. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 4040 - Ballet Techniques Iv

    iii credit hours

    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Performance-level techniques and choreography for solo and ensemble pieces in both classical and contemporary styles. Meets four and half hours per calendar week. May be repeated for a maximum of vi credits with permission of instructor.

  • DANC 4050 - Advanced Contemporary Techniques

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite:DANC 3010. Pre-professional level techniques and choreography for contemporary trip the light fantastic toe. Meets four hours per week. May be repeated twice with permission of teacher. Students will be expected to develop proficiency in multiple motility styles and learn avant-garde repertory.

Tracks of Report

Students will select 1 of the following tracks:

Performance and Choreography (fifteen hours)

Composition Requirement (6 hours)

  • DANC 4110 - Choreography II

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 4100 or permission of teacher. Directed study of a choreographic project. Exploration of choreographic techniques to develop an original grouping trip the light fantastic toe and the execution of plans for costumes, lighting, make-up, and sound. Offered spring semester only.

  • DANC 4000 - Dance Performance I  i credit hour

    (3 credit hours) (3 credit hours required)

      dotslash:(iii credit hours required) title:(three credit hours)

    (3 credit hours required)

    DANC 4000 - Dance Functioning I

    1 credit hr

    Permission of instructor and co-registration in DANC 1010, DANC 1020, DANC 1030, DANC 1040, DANC 2010, DANC 2020 DANC 2030, DANC 2040, DANC 3010, DANC 3020, DANC 3030, DANC 3040, or DANC 4040. All aspects of concert planning and production every bit performer and crew member. May be taken for ane credit per semester for a total of 6 credits.

Practical Professional Skills (ix hours)

Choose from the following:

  • DANC 3200 - Trip the light fantastic toe Improvisation

    2 credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2000 Explores improvisation as a mode of dance grooming, artistic enquiry, and performance practice. Students introduced to specific improvisational structures, approaches and scores, and will develop improvisational strategies within gimmicky dance functioning.

  • DANC 4000 - Dance Performance I

    one credit hour

    Permission of instructor and co-registration in DANC 1010, DANC 1020, DANC 1030, DANC 1040, DANC 2010, DANC 2020 DANC 2030, DANC 2040, DANC 3010, DANC 3020, DANC 3030, DANC 3040, or DANC 4040. All aspects of concert planning and production as performer and crew member. May be taken for i credit per semester for a total of 6 credits.

May exist taken for one credit per semester for a total of 6 credits

  • DANC 4130 - Dance for Theatre

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Techniques of dance for musicals, comedies, operas, television, and phase and choreography for these forms.

  • THEA 3200 - Introduction to Costume for Arts and Entertainment

    iii credit hours

    Overview of costume in the arts and entertainment; an orientation to costume, pattern, management, engineering science, wardrobe practices, and costume critique methods through projects adult through research, problem-solving, and documentation; focus on student career and portfolio development. Laboratory hours and/or crew requirement.

  • THEA 3400 - Lighting for Arts and Entertainment I

    iii credit hours

    Lectures and applied experience in the methods and techniques of lighting for the phase. Emphasis on creation of lighting design for operation through the study and noesis of electricity, circuity, instrumentation, control equipment, and fundamental properties of lighting design. Major projects in lighting design. Crew requirement.

Dance Pedagogy in Practice (15 hours)

Didactics Requirement (6 hours)

  • DANC 3600 - Teaching Artistic Move for Children

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisites: 2000-level dance technique courses in ballet or modern dance and permission of section. Dance as a viable activity that tin can enhance the learning procedure. Explores the subject field of dance as bones to an education for all people. Educational and aesthetic theories and practices related to fashioning developmentally appropriate dance experiences for children. Offered even-numbered fall semesters only.

  • DANC 4610 - Theory and Practice of Teaching Dance

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisites: DANC 1010 and DANC 2010 or DANC 1040 and  DANC 2040. Theory and practice of educational activity classical ballet and modern trip the light fantastic toe techniques based on sound anatomical and kinesiological principles.

Practical Professional Skills (9 hours)

Choose from the post-obit:

  • DANC 4000 - Dance Operation I  1 credit hour

    (one-6 credit hours) (1-6 credit hours)

      dotslash:(one-6 credit hours) title:(1-6 credit hours)

    (ane-6 credit hours)

    DANC 4000 - Trip the light fantastic toe Performance I

    i credit hour

    Permission of instructor and co-registration in DANC 1010, DANC 1020, DANC 1030, DANC 1040, DANC 2010, DANC 2020 DANC 2030, DANC 2040, DANC 3010, DANC 3020, DANC 3030, DANC 3040, or DANC 4040. All aspects of concert planning and production as performer and crew member. May exist taken for 1 credit per semester for a total of 6 credits.

May be taken for one credit per semester for a total of 6 credits

  • DANC 4140 - Internship in Dance

    iii credit hours

    Prerequisite: Approval of chair or trip the light fantastic kinesthesia. Students assigned to work with professional trip the light fantastic companies or arts centers. Pass/Fail.

  • THEA 3200 - Introduction to Costume for Arts and Entertainment

    3 credit hours

    Overview of costume in the arts and entertainment; an orientation to costume, design, direction, engineering science, wardrobe practices, and costume critique methods through projects developed through inquiry, problem-solving, and documentation; focus on educatee career and portfolio development. Laboratory hours and/or crew requirement.

  • THEA 3400 - Lighting for Arts and Entertainment I

    iii credit hours

    Lectures and applied experience in the methods and techniques of lighting for the stage. Emphasis on creation of lighting pattern for performance through the study and knowledge of electricity, circuity, instrumentation, control equipment, and fundamental properties of lighting design. Major projects in lighting design. Crew requirement.

Electives (26 hours)

  • Merely 6 credit hours may exist in DANC courses

Recommended Curriculum: Trip the light fantastic

Curricular listings include General Education requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.

All students pursuing a major within this section must complete the General Education requirements. The following is a suggested design of written report; however, consultation with the assigned counselor is necessary before each registration.

Freshman

  • ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing

    3 credit hours

    The first General Educational activity English course. Emphasis on learning to adapt composing processes to a diverseness of expository and analytic writing assignments. Minimum course of C- required to meet degree requirements.

  • ENGL 1020 - Research and Belligerent Writing

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010. The second Full general Education English class. Emphasis on analytic and argumentative writing and on locating, organizing, and using library resources materials in the writing. Minimum form of C- required to meet degree requirements.

  • COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Advice

    3 credit hours

    Introduces principles and processes of effective public oral communication including researching, disquisitional thinking, organizing, presenting, listening, and using advisable language. Counts as office of the General Education Advice requirement. TBR Mutual Course: COMM 2025

  • DANC 2000 - Start Yr Seminar in Dance

    three credit hours

    An overview of the gimmicky dance scene and its recent history in aesthetics, scholarship, and in the marketplace.

  • Core trip the light fantastic toe techniques 4 credit hours
  • Mathematics iii credit hours
  • Natural Sciences iv credit hours
  • Humanities and/or Fine Arts 3 credit hours (students should choose from Art, MUS, or THEA options)
  • HIST 2010 - Survey of Usa History I

    3 credit hours

    Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from the starting time to 1877. May exist used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Class: HIST 2010

  • HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History Ii

    3 credit hours

    Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from 1877 to the present. May be used to satisfy one role of the the Full general Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is Non a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Course: HIST 2020

  • HIST 2030 - Tennessee History

    3 credit hours

    The part of the land in the evolution of the nation. May exist used to satisfy one office of the Full general Education History requirement. TBR Common Course: HIST 2030

  • HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I

    three credit hours

    The role of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical development and contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May exist used to satisfy one part of the General Teaching History requirement.

    NOTE: HIST 2040 is not a prerequisite for HIST 2050.

  • HIST 2050 - Survey African American History Ii

    3 credit hours

    The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical development and examines their contributions to American fine art, music, literature, and faith. May be used to satisfy ane part of the Full general Education History requirement.

Subtotal: 29 Hours

Sophomore

  • ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Traces a specific theme or idea through a number of literary texts that reflect different historical and cultural contexts. Subject volition vary.

  • ENGL 2030 - The Feel of Literature

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. The reading of a diversity of literary types which illuminate themes and experiences mutual to human being existence.

  • HUM 2610 - World Literatures

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020. Representative works of French, German language, and Hispanic authors in English translation. No foreign-language proficiency required. Carries Full general Education credit.

  • DANC 4100 - Choreography I

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Exploration of movement, technique sequences, and choreographic forms; bones elements of notation. Offered autumn semester only.

  • DANC 4800 - History of Dance

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2000  A survey of dance from primitive to the nowadays with an accent on the style and techniques of trip the light fantastic as information technology was performed.Offered fall semester merely.

  • Core dance techniques 4 credit hours
  • Natural Sciences four credit hours
  • Social/Behavioral Sciences 6 credit hours
  • Humanities and/or Fine Arts 3 credit hours (students should choose from ART, MUS, or THEA options)
  • HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I

    3 credit hours

    Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from the beginning to 1877. May be used to satisfy one part of the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is NOT a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Grade: HIST 2010

  • HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II

    three credit hours

    Survey of the political, economic, social, cultural, and diplomatic phases of American life in its regional, national, and international aspects. Discusses the era from 1877 to the present. May be used to satisfy one part of the the General Education History requirement. HIST 2010 is Not a prerequisite for HIST 2020. TBR Common Class: HIST 2020

  • HIST 2030 - Tennessee History

    3 credit hours

    The office of the state in the evolution of the nation. May exist used to satisfy one part of the Full general Education History requirement. TBR Common Grade: HIST 2030

  • HIST 2040 - Survey African American History I

    3 credit hours

    The function of African Americans in establishing and shaping the American nation. Covers their historical development and contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May exist used to satisfy ane office of the General Pedagogy History requirement.

    Note: HIST 2040 is not a prerequisite for HIST 2050.

  • HIST 2050 - Survey African American History II

    iii credit hours

    The role of African Americans in shaping the American nation and creating a twentieth-century racial identity. Covers their historical evolution and examines their contributions to American art, music, literature, and religion. May be used to satisfy one role of the General Education History requirement.

Subtotal: 29 Hours

Junior

  • DANC 4570 - The Trunk Intelligent: A Report of the Alexander Technique

    three credit hours

    (Aforementioned equally MUS 4570/THEA 4570.) For those interested in improving ease and liberty of movement, rest, support, flexibility, and coordination in daily activities.

  • DANC 4600 - Dance Kinesiology

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: DANC 2010 or DANC 2040. An experiential report of the homo body in rest and in motion. Emphasis on the skeletal and muscular systems in consideration of applications to trip the light fantastic performance, instruction and creative processes, injury prevention and rehabilitation, nutrition, ecology furnishings on the human body, and the emerging area of dance medicine while preparation for classical ballet and modernistic trip the light fantastic toe.Offered spring semester only.

  • Core trip the light fantastic techniques vi credit hours
  • Trip the light fantastic toe specialized runway courses 9 credit hours
  • General electives eleven credit hours

Subtotal: 32 Hours

Senior

  • DANC 4990 - Senior Seminar in Dance

    3 credit hours

    Prerequisite: Successful completion of 75 credit hours and permission of department. A capstone to the trip the light fantastic pupil's undergraduate career and preparation for transition to the professional world or graduate study. Includes lectures, workshops, professional person guest speakers, and discussion sessions. Students will complete various newspaper-based projects, a capstone enquiry project, resume, and portfolio construction.

  • Core dance techniques 6 credit hours
  • Dance specialized track courses 6 credit hours
  • General electives fifteen credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Our offshoot faculty bring outstanding professional experience to our programs. Many are industry leaders with decorated careers and honors. Importantly, they are innovative educators who offer easily-on learning to our students to ready them to enter and thrive in a dynamic, and oftentimes emerging, industry and professional world. They inspire, instruct, and claiming our students toward academic and professional success.

DANC k - Introduction to Dance
iii credit hours

Dance equally an expressive art form, a symbolic language, and an integral aspect of world cultures. Lecture/word course for the general student population. Not a performance or activity course. TBR Common Course: DANC 1005

DANC 1010 - Mod Trip the light fantastic Techniques I
2 credit hours

Modern dance techniques; emphasis on exploration of fundamentals of dance as a form of creative communication. For students with piffling or no previous experience in modern dance. Meets 3 hours per week. May exist repeated for a maximum of 4 credits.

DANC 1020 - Jazz Trip the light fantastic toe Techniques I
two credit hours

Gimmicky jazz trip the light fantastic toe techniques; emphasis on exploration of fundamentals of trip the light fantastic as a form of artistic communication. For students with little or no previous feel in jazz dance. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits.

DANC 1030 - Tap Dance Techniques I
two credit hours

Tap trip the light fantastic techniques; emphasis on exploration of the fundamentals of trip the light fantastic toe every bit a grade of creative communication. For students with little or no previous experience in tap dance. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits.

DANC 1040 - Ballet Techniques I
ii credit hours

Classical ballet techniques; accent on exploration of ballet equally a classical art form. For students with little or no experience in ballet. Meets three hours per calendar week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits.

DANC 1050 - Trip the light fantastic Performance Workshop for Governor's School for the Arts
2 credit hours

Prerequisite: Permission of teacher. Trip the light fantastic toe practicum for students involved with the Tennessee Governor's Schoolhouse for the Arts. Designed to give feel in specific areas of dance study while students fix for the Finale production.

DANC 1090 - Trip the light fantastic toe Conditioning
1 credit hour

The report of a variety of physical conditioning methods, somatic practices, and injury prevention techniques that promote movement efficiency and physical development of the dancer's trunk.

DANC 2000 - First Twelvemonth Seminar in Dance
3 credit hours

An overview of the contemporary trip the light fantastic toe scene and its recent history in aesthetics, scholarship, and in the market.

DANC 2010 - Mod Dance Techniques II
2 credit hours

Intermediate modernistic trip the light fantastic techniques. Meets iii hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

DANC 2020 - Jazz Trip the light fantastic Techniques II
two credit hours

Intermediate jazz dance techniques. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

DANC 2030 - Tap Dance Techniques II
2 credit hours

Intermediate tap dance techniques. Meets iii hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

DANC 2040 - Ballet Techniques Two
2 credit hours

Intermediate ballet techniques. Meets three hours per calendar week. May exist repeated for a maximum of four credits with permission of teacher.

DANC 3010 - Modernistic Dance Techniques 3
2 credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 2010 or permission of instructor. Intermediate/Advanced studio technique. Meets four and one-one-half hours per calendar week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

DANC 3020 - Jazz Dance Techniques Iii
2 credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 2020 or permission of instructor. Intermediate/Advanced jazz trip the light fantastic toe techniques. Meets three hours per week. May exist repeated for a maximum of four credits with permission of instructor.

DANC 3030 - Tap Trip the light fantastic toe Techniques Three
2 credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 2030 or permission of instructor. Advanced tap trip the light fantastic toe techniques. Meets three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits with permission of instructor.

DANC 3040 - Ballet Techniques III
2 credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 2040. Intermediate/Advanced ballet techniques. Meets for three hours per week. May be repeated for a maximum of iv credits with permission of teacher.

DANC 3045 - Pointe/Variations
1 credit hour

Prerequisite: DANC 3040 or permission of instructor. Study of pointe piece of work with an accent on edifice strength, coordination, stability, proper alignment, and correct execution within the traditional format of a ballet form. May be repeated for a maximum of four credits with permission of instructor.

DANC 3200 - Dance Improvisation
2 credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 2000 Explores improvisation as a mode of trip the light fantastic toe training, artistic inquiry, and operation do. Students introduced to specific improvisational structures, approaches and scores, and volition develop improvisational strategies inside contemporary dance operation.

DANC 3600 - Teaching Creative Motility for Children
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: 2000-level dance technique courses in ballet or modern dance and permission of department. Dance every bit a feasible activity that can enhance the learning procedure. Explores the discipline of dance as basic to an instruction for all people. Educational and aesthetic theories and practices related to fashioning developmentally appropriate trip the light fantastic toe experiences for children. Offered even-numbered autumn semesters just.

DANC 4000 - Dance Performance I
1 credit 60 minutes

Permission of instructor and co-registration in DANC 1010, DANC 1020, DANC 1030, DANC 1040, DANC 2010, DANC 2020 DANC 2030, DANC 2040, DANC 3010, DANC 3020, DANC 3030, DANC 3040, or DANC 4040. All aspects of concert planning and product as performer and crew member. May be taken for one credit per semester for a total of 6 credits.

DANC 4010 - Trip the light fantastic Functioning Two
one credit 60 minutes

Permission of instructor and co-registration in DANC 1010, DANC 1020, DANC 1030, DANC 1040, DANC 2010, DANC 2020 DANC 2030, DANC 2040, DANC 3010, DANC 3020, DANC 3030, DANC 3040, or DANC 4040. All aspects of concert planning and production as performer and coiffure member. May be taken for i credit per semester for a total of 4 credits.

DANC 4040 - Ballet Techniques IV
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Performance-level techniques and choreography for solo and ensemble pieces in both classical and contemporary styles. Meets four and ane-half hours per calendar week. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits with permission of teacher.

DANC 4050 - Avant-garde Gimmicky Techniques
three credit hours

Prerequisite:DANC 3010. Pre-professional person level techniques and choreography for contemporary dance. Meets four hours per week. May exist repeated twice with permission of teacher. Students will be expected to develop proficiency in multiple movement styles and learn avant-garde repertory.

DANC 4100 - Choreography I
three credit hours

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Exploration of movement, technique sequences, and choreographic forms; bones elements of annotation. Offered autumn semester only.

DANC 4110 - Choreography II
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 4100 or permission of instructor. Directed study of a choreographic project. Exploration of choreographic techniques to develop an original grouping trip the light fantastic toe and the execution of plans for costumes, lighting, make-up, and sound. Offered jump semester merely.

DANC 4130 - Dance for Theatre
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Permission of teacher. Techniques of dance for musicals, comedies, operas, television set, and phase and choreography for these forms.

DANC 4140 - Internship in Dance
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Approval of chair or dance faculty. Students assigned to work with professional trip the light fantastic toe companies or arts centers. Pass/Fail.

DANC 4200 - Women in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Dance
iii credit hours

Examines dance as a field whose content shaped the identity of women in the United States. Representation and objectification of women in dance every bit it evolved and changed throughout the twentieth century and into the 20-get-go century. Offered odd-numbered spring semesters but.

DANC 4290 - Special Topics in Dance
1 to three credit hours

Prerequisite: Permission of department; must take taken DANC 4100 and/or demonstrate proficiency in modernistic dance technique at the intermediate level. Allows students to explore topics not covered in regular dance curriculum enhancing pupil'due south breadth of knowledge and career preparedness. Content varies based on faculty or guest artist instructing course. Topic, method of instruction, and prerequisite will exist determined at time of scheduling. Grade may be repeated.

DANC 4570 - The Body Intelligent: A Study of the Alexander Technique
iii credit hours

(Same as MUS 4570/THEA 4570.) For those interested in improving ease and liberty of movement, rest, support, flexibility, and coordination in daily activities.

DANC 4600 - Dance Kinesiology
3 credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 2010 or DANC 2040. An experiential study of the human body in residue and in motility. Emphasis on the skeletal and muscular systems in consideration of applications to trip the light fantastic performance, teaching and creative processes, injury prevention and rehabilitation, nutrition, ecology effects on the man body, and the emerging expanse of trip the light fantastic medicine while preparation for classical ballet and modernistic dance.Offered spring semester but.

DANC 4610 - Theory and Exercise of Pedagogy Trip the light fantastic toe
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: DANC 1010 and DANC 2010 or DANC 1040 and  DANC 2040. Theory and practise of educational activity classical ballet and modern dance techniques based on sound anatomical and kinesiological principles.

DANC 4800 - History of Dance
iii credit hours

Prerequisite: DANC 2000  A survey of trip the light fantastic toe from primitive to the present with an emphasis on the style and techniques of dance as it was performed.Offered fall semester only.

DANC 4950 - Directed Studies
3 credit hours

Prerequisites: Available only to students in Theatre and Dance who have completed 50 per centum of their coursework in their major and take an overall GPA of 3.ii for their final xxx hours of report; permission of department required. Proposals must be submitted and approved by theatre and trip the light fantastic faculty the semester prior to the starting time of the semester of enrollment. Individualized intensive instruction for students to pursue research and creative activity in a specified surface area.

DANC 4990 - Senior Seminar in Trip the light fantastic
three credit hours

Prerequisite: Successful completion of 75 credit hours and permission of department. A capstone to the trip the light fantastic toe pupil'due south undergraduate career and preparation for transition to the professional person world or graduate written report. Includes lectures, workshops, professional guest speakers, and discussion sessions. Students volition consummate various paper-based projects, a capstone research project, resume, and portfolio construction.

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Tucker Theatre

Tucker Theatre accommodates major music, trip the light fantastic toe, theatrical, and boob tube productions, along with performances in intimate settings and a wide variety of events such as award ceremonies, films, pageants, recitals, product launches, receptions, and meetings.

For event information, Delight call 615.494.8810. For Tickets call, ane.888.718.4253. Thanks!

All events at Tucker Theatre are scheduled through our production part. Call 615/898-2181 between viii:thirty a.m. and four:00 p.m., Monday through Friday for rental information.

Studio Theatre

Anderson Studio Theatre

The Anderson Studio Theater is a flexible blackness box space. Information technology is primarily used for student-produced performances. The space is perfect for smaller, more intimate productions.

Dance Studio

Dance Studio

MTSU has two fully equipped dance studio spaces for rehearsals and dance classes. Both rooms have a total mirror wall, as well as easy-to-use audio equipment.

Scenic Studio

Breathtaking Studio

The Scenic Studio is designed for the construction of our scenic elements for all Theatre and Dance productions, as well equally stagecraft classes.

Costume Studio

Costume Studio

The Costume Studio is designed for the production of costumes for all Theatre and Trip the light fantastic toe productions, likewise as costuming classes.

Design Lab

Design Studio

The Design Studio is equipped with a state-of-the-art light box and an ETC Ion lighting console that allows designers to work on a scale model of Tucker Theatre. Students likewise have access to the computer lab and drafting materials.

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MTSU Box 43
1301 E Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

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