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ADA-035. Dance and Fitness (Offered 2013-14, Moutillet). Provides students with the study of a trained body in modern dance, yoga and fitness routines. Gain expertise on how to shape and train your body to its full potential. For all students ADA-036. Pilates For Performers (Offered 2013-14, Geren) In class, students learn the basic, intermediate, and advanced exercises of the Pilates workout. The course focuses specifically on technique that helps with centering of body work for the Performing Arts. Strengthening and working on flexibility enhance performers’ abilities. Gain confidence and awareness of body placement as well as studying a technique for warming up before shows. Union offers few beginners dance classes, the Pilates for Performers being an ideal training base for all performance artists, including novices. For all students ADA-037. Zumba (Offered 2013-14, Cawley) Zumba combines high energy and motivating music with unique moves and combinations that allow the Zumba participants to dance. It is based on the principle that dance steps are fun and easy to follow allowing Zumba participants to enjoy the art of dancing and achieve long-term health benefits. Zumba is a “feel-good” workout that is great for both the body and the mind. ZUMBA is a fusion of Latin and International music - dance themes that create a dynamic, exciting, and effective aerobic/fitness training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body. This class is for everyone who wants to participate in a body-energizing movement class meant to engage trained and non-trained dancers. Experience a mix of diverse dance styles such as salsa, raggaeton, merengue, cha cha, belly dance, cumbia and more. For all students. ADA-040. Afro-Dance. (Not Offered 2013-14) A class built for everyone who wants to dance to African rhythms. Emphasizes stamina and the learning of exiting dance routines. A cultural dance style and technique welcoming dancers of all levels into a rich range of African dance movements. For all students ADA-045. Tap Dance 1. (Not offered 2013-14). For beginners who want to explore the world of tap dance. Students will learn basic footwork, and routines on exciting rhythms. For beginners ADA-046. Tap Dance 2. (Not offered 2013-14). Tap dance provides students with the study of steps found in the tap dancing art form. Students will be introduced to proper warm up, tap steps, specific exercises in rhythms, routines, and use of music. For dancers, adding a tap class will give them the opportunity to learn about a new dance form. Students that have previous experience in tap will be able to expand their expertise. For the theater students the learning of tap can eventually be useful for musicals. For trained dancers ADA-060. Hip Hop 1 Dance Class. (Offered 2013-14, Wasbes) The Hip Hop I dance class gives students the opportunity to learn the basic of this popular and important dance form. A style based on routines from street jazz, breaking, popping, and locking. This dance style welcomes students with no previous dance experience and is a dazzling way for students to gain confidence in their body to today’s most celebrated pop music. For all students ADA-061. Hip Hop 2 Dance Class. (Offered 2013-14, Wasbes) The Hip Hop II dance class provides trained dancers with a high energy class in an innovative dance style. Hip Hop is urban, it’s diverse, and it’s forever changing. The freestyle dance fusion gives students the opportunity to develop their own sense of style to the latest hit songs. For trained dancers ADA-070. Choreography- Modern. (Winter, Moutillet) This class will give students the opportunity to participate in the creation of a dance piece. Studio classes will focus on a particular era with a definite theme that will generate choreographic scenes. The dance vocabulary will be the amalgam of diverse dance styles. Students will have the opportunity to learn choreographed movements as well as interacting in the process by sharing their own individual ideas. The choreography will use recorded or live music as well as incorporating multi-media, inventive sets and costumes for a contemporary performance art production. Each week the class will build on material that will be presented as part of the winter dance concerts at the Yulman Theater. For intermediate level ADA-071. Choreography-Jazz. (Winter, Rogers) Each week the class will work toward the composition of innovative dance movements found in the jazz form. This class will primarily focus upon the post-jazz dance vocabulary of the 1980’s, which incorporates diverse dance styles such
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as ballet, funk jazz and hip-hop. Each student will learn from the faculty choreography as well as develop their own potential by proposing movements for collaborative work. Students will explore a wide range of intricate steps as a mean of self-expression, individual and ensemble study. The finalized choreography will be presented as part of the winter dance concerts. For intermediate level ADA-072. Choreography– Ensemble. (Winter, Moutillet & Rogers) This class concentrates on creating a choreography that will give students the opportunity to work as a team; a unit or a group. Every show demands this type of collaborative work to provide meaning, help the theme or story line development or simply create a stunning visual effect. The Ensemble practicum encourages cooperation between student participants and strives for efficient dance vocabulary that brings momentum and advance the plot of our winter dance concerts. The choreography will incorporate inventive sets or props for a contemporary performance art production. For intermediate level ADA-073. Choreography– Rhythms. (Winter, Rogers) This practicum will focus on developing various rhythms to create vibrant sounds and a challenging choreography. The dance vocabulary will stress the primacy of percussion beats. Students will learn to use their entire bodies as an instrument as well as their feet to enhance syncopated beats. This dance style will include tap dancing, stepping and rhythms with the body or with percussive instruments. For intermediate level. ADA-074. Choreography Ballet. (Winter, Moutillet) Choregraphy-Ballet emphasizes either the traditional or contemporary repertoire to present the lyricism of the classical form. Dancers who have a desire to perform classical dance will be part of a creation that embraces their expertise gain in many years of training. Depending on the dance concert, this practicum focuses on a particular era, technique or master choreographer. For intermediate level.
Visual Arts: Art History and Studio Fine Arts Chair: Professor C. Duncan Faculty: Professors M. Benjamin, W. Hatke, L. Matthew; Associate Professors L. Cox, D. Ogawa, F. Orellana; Assistant Professor S. Lullo; Senior Lecturer S. Wimer Staff: F. Rapant (Photography Technician), K. Herrington (Administrative Assistant), L. Goodman (Office Assistant) Art History Requirements for the Major: Students take twelve courses, including: two of the three Western art history survey courses and one of the Asian art history survey courses, four other art history courses (which must cover at least three historical periods, cultures, or geographic regions), a minimum of two studio arts courses, and three additional advanced art history courses. One of these advanced courses must be AAH400, a seminar on methodology, which should be taken the winter term of a student’s junior year. Majors concentrating in art history are encouraged to continue the study of at least one foreign language at Union. Seniors should fulfill the WS requirement in an art history seminar or through the senior thesis. To pursue a senior thesis, art history concentrators or interdepartmental majors must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 overall and 3.3 in their art history concentration. The student must have successfully completed a junior qualifying paper (“B plus” or above) in the context of an upper-level art history course with the approval of the faculty advisor, and have completed AAH-400. The senior thesis topic must be approved by the faculty advisor in the third term of the junior year. All of these criteria must be met by the end of the junior year. Requirements for the Art History/Studio Arts Dual Concentration: Students who wish to major in a combined dual concentration of studio art and art history must take seven courses in each area.