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Southall, Lawrence T

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  • DNCE 1017 - Dance and Popular Culture
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    Explores and contextualizes dance in contemporary popular culture. Introduces methods of critical analysis that reveal diverse lineages within the dances students commonly encounter at the club, on the street, on the screen, and elsewhere in everyday life. Through watching, reading, and convivial research, students deepen perceptions and meaning making. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.
  • DNCE 1027 - Dance and Culture
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2021
    Explores how dance can reflect, disrupt, subvert, support, and reinforce cultural expectations, norms, and practices. Introduces diverse dance traditions and provides context for an interdisciplinary examination from sociology, anthropology, gender studies, history, post-colonial studies, and more provide a foundation to understand how cultural identities are negotiated and represented through movement. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another.
  • DNCE 1301 - Beginning Hip-Hop Technique
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025 / Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
    Introduces Hip-Hop dance as a culturally significant dance form. Students learn history, the social and political forces, and the fundamental techniques (Campbell Locking, Popping, Breaking etiquette/movements, Hip-Hop Party Dance, and House) through the lens of critical race theory. Training addresses flexibility, sequencing, coordination, and performance. Material is offered through an anti-oppressive approach. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. No experience necessary. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.
  • DNCE 3301 - Hip-Hop Dance Technique 2
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
    Builds on fundamentals established in Hip-Hop Dance Technique 1. Students deepen their understanding of Hip-Hop history through fundamental movement techniques, specifically, House, and study the social/political forces at work. The course focuses on increasing dancers' capacity for variation, sequencing, musicality and free-styling in Hip-Hop dance. Enrollment by audition only. Meets with DNCE 5331. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.
  • DNCE 4036 - Dance Teaching Practices: Inclusive Approaches to Instruction
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2025
    Examines legal, practical, pedagogical and philosophical issues in current dance education. Goals and content of professional and recreational dance training are considered and strategies for effective teaching practice are discussed. All genres of dance may be utilized depending on the specialities of participants.
  • DNCE 4047 - Dance & Hip-Hop History
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
    Addresses the origin and evolution of American Hip-Hop dance rooted in theoretical structures springing from the elemental nature of the African Diaspora. Pioneers, innovators, terminology, and styles will be identified, emphasizing the social, political, and economic environment in which it was fashioned. Includes lectures, readings, audio/video analysis and discussion. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. Same as DNCE 5047.
  • DNCE 4061 - Dance & Dancing: More Dancing
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2025
    We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Same as DNCE 2021 and DNCE 3041 and DNCE 5001.
  • DNCE 4939 - Dance & Community Practice
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Fall 2023
    Offers an opportunity to go do something real in the community with dance. This student driven internship is supported by faculty mentorship in collaboration with an established arts or teaching organization. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
  • DNCE 5001 - Dance & Dancing: More Dancing
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2025
    We will dance and dance some more. We will sweat, feel, connect, and think. In-depth, rigorous, current, and justice-oriented dance training occurs within a specific form. Technical skills are supported by context, histories, and potential futures of the form. We refuse to separate: 1) mind and body; 2) dance and other disciplines; 3) us from one another. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours. Same as DNCE 2021 and DNCE 3041 and DNCE 4061.
  • DNCE 5047 - Hip-Hop Dance History
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025
    Addresses the origin and evolution of American Hip-Hop dance rooted in a theoretical structure that springs from the elemental nature of the African Diaspora. Emphasis placed on the social, political, and economic environment in which it was fashioned. Pioneers, innovators, terminology, and styles will be identified. Course includes lectures, readings, audio/video analysis and discussion. Meets with DNCE 4047.
  • DNCE 5301 - Graduate Hip-Hop Technique 1
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
    Introduces students to Hip-Hop dance as a culturally significant form. Students learn history, the social and political forces at work and the fundamental techniques (Campbell Locking, Popping, Breaking etiquette/movements, Hip-Hop Party Dance and House). Intellectual challenge is offered through the lens of critical race theory and historical context. Training addresses flexibility, sequencing, coordination and performance skills. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.
  • DNCE 5331 - Graduate Advanced Hip-Hop Technique
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2025
    Students deepen their understanding of Hi-Hop history through fundamental movement techniques, specifically, House, and study the social/political forces at work. Focuses on increasing dancers' capacity for variation, sequencing, musicality and free-styling in Hip-Hop dance. Enrollment by audition only. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.

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