Dance
13 courses · Evergreen Valley College · 2025-2026 Catalog
Classes: Summer 2026
DANCE 002 Dance Appreciation
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- Lecture Hours: 3
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Students will explore dance from an aesthetic, historic, and cultural point of view. Students will examine the elements of dance including body, space, time, and dynamic qualities and develop a vocabulary with which to analyze and write critically about dance. Dance will be explored in many of its genres including social dance, jazz dance, ballet, modern, and dance from cultures around the globe from historical and contemporary perspectives. Attendance at a live dance performance may be required.
DANCE 015 Hip-Hop Dance, Beginning
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course works to develop the student's artistry and technique in hip-hop dance at the beginning level. The student will learn positions, isolations, gestures, traveling and jumping steps, turns, and level changes. The student will explore the syncopated rhythm and phrasing unique to hip-hop dance. Focus on performance and choreography will also be explored at the beginning level.
DANCE 016 Hip-Hop Dance, Intermediate
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Prerequisite
- DANCE 015 with C or better
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Students will be introduced to the intermediate aspects of hip-hop dance technique. Students will learn intermediate positions, isolations, gestures, traveling and jumping steps, turns and level changes as well as rhythm and phrasing, unique hip-hop dance and music. Performance and technique will also be the focus at the intermediate level.
DANCE 019 Jazz Dance, Fundamentals
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
Students will be introduced to the fundamental skills of jazz dance technique. Students will learn primary positions, isolations, and locomotor movements. Exploration of movement qualities, basic rhythms, and musical phrasing unique to jazz dance, will be a focus of the course. The student will gain an appreciation of his/her own unique body in relation to jazz dance as a dynamic art form. Attendance at a live performance may be required.
DANCE 020 Jazz Dance, Beginning
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Students will be introduced to beginning skills of jazz dance technique. The student will integrate beginning positions, isolations, and locomotor movements into full body actions and explore movement qualities, polyrhythms, and musical phrasing unique to jazz dance. The student will gain an appreciation of his/her own unique body in relation to jazz dance as a dynamic art form. Attendance at a live performance may be required.
DANCE 021 Jazz Dance, Intermediate
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Prerequisite
- DANCE 020 with C or better, or assessment based on instructor evaluation
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course works to develop the student's artistry and jazz dance technique at the intermediate level. The student will apply theory and technique with attention to musicality and performance in the execution of intermediate jazz dance combinations. The course will draw from the beginning level class while increasing the difficulty in coordination, complexity, tempo, stamina, artistry, and the use of vocabulary. Attendance at a live performance may be required.
DANCE 022 Social Dance
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Students will learn basic steps, rhythms, and partnering techniques for various social dance forms of European and Latin American origins including Merengue, Waltz, Rhumba, Cha-Cha, Salsa, and Swing Dance. Stylistic origins and evolution in social and historical contexts will also be discussed.
DANCE 022B Intermediate Social Dance
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Prerequisite
- DANCE 022 with C or better
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course works to develop the students' artistry and technique of Social Dance at an intermediate level. Students will learn intermediate steps, rhythms, and partnering techniques for various social dance forms of European and Latin American origins including Merengue, Waltz, Rhumba, Cha-Cha, Salsa, and Swing Dance. Stylistic origins and evolution in social and historical contexts will also be discussed.
DANCE 022C High-Intermediate Social Dance
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Prerequisite
- DANCE 022B with C or better
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course works to develop the students' artistry and technique of Social Dance at a high-intermediate level. Students will learn high-intermediate steps, rhythms, and partnering techniques for various social dance forms of European and Latin American origins such as the Merengue, Waltz, Rhumba, Cha-Cha, Salsa, and Swing Dance. Other social dance forms may be covered. Stylistic origins and evolution in social and historical contexts will also be discussed.
DANCE 049 Modern Dance, Fundamentals
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
Students will be introduced to fundamental skills of modern dance technique. Students will learn basic positions, gestures, traveling and jumping steps, turns, level changes, and spatial orientation. The student will gain an appreciation of her/his own unique body in relation to modern dance as an expressive art form. Attendance at a live dance performance may be required.
DANCE 050 Modern Dance, Beginning
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Students will be introduced to beginning skills of modern dance technique. The student will learn basic positions, gestures, traveling and jumping steps, turns and level changes. The student will learn about spatial orientation and will gain an understanding and appreciation of her/his own unique body in relation to dance as an expressive art form. Attendance at a live dance performance may be required.
DANCE 051 Modern Dance, Intermediate
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Prerequisite
- DANCE 050 with C or better
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Students will be working at an intermediate level modern dance technique. Focus will be on intermediate level positions, gestures, traveling and jumping steps, turns, level changes and spatial orientation. The student will work towards a deeper level of artistry and expression through musicality and dynamic qualities of movement. The students will gain an understanding and appreciation of her/his own unique body in relation to dance as an expressive art form. Attendance at a live dance performance may be required.
DANCE 051B Modern Dance, High-Intermediate
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- Lab Hours: 3
- Prerequisite
- DANCE 051 with C or better, or assessment based on instructor evaluation
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course works to develop the student's artistry and modern dance technique at a high-intermediate level. The student will apply theory and technique with attention to musicality and performance in execution of high-intermediate positions, gestures, traveling and jumping steps, turns and level changes with increasingly more complicated patterns and weight changes. Attendance at a live performance may be required.