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 Offering a wide variety of dance courses for students of all ages seeking:
- Personal wellness & lifelong learning
- Education advancement-
Core requirements in Fine & Performning Arts & Kinesiology.
AA degree in Dance
The dance program at Northwest Vista College offers experiential courses in a growing variety of formalized dance styles and traditions, choreography, and dance performance, as well as academic courses in historical, cultural and scientific contexts for dance.
• Emphasis on building dance skills grounded in an understanding of the body’s healthy structure and function
• Practical hands-on experience in the art and craft of choreographing and performance
• Introduction to a variety of contexts for understanding dance, its relationship to other arts and the humanities
• Direct exposure to artists currently working in the field, through visiting artists and community partnerships with local dance companies for hands-on learning
• Beginning level courses offer non-competitive environment allowing students to focus on dance for personal wellness and the joy of moving in community with others
Most dance classes at NVC are open to all NVC students. The program offers several courses which satisfy the Peforming Arts Core requirement for schools in Texas. The kinesiology program at NVC embraces dance as the art form that is founded in the moving body; many of our dance activitiy courses can be taken for kinesiology credit (KINE).
Students also have the opportunity to pursue the Associate of Arts degree in Dance is designed for students planning to transfer to a four-year university to major or minor in dance, and will benefit any student planning to enter a dance-related profession, including performing, teaching, directing, or arts administration. For a complete listing of requirements for the degree: http://www.accd.edu/nvc/students/catalog/11programs/aadan.html
You don’t have to be a registered student to take dance classes at Northwest Vista College. Many dance classes are open to the community through NVC’s Center for Workforce and Community Education. For more information about how to register and a list of current classes contact Rodell Garay Asher, Continuing Education SpecialistPhone: 210-348-2373 rasher@accd.edu or visit the webpage at http://www.accd.edu/nvc/cwce/childrenseniorsdance/dance.htm
For more information about the AA or any aspect of the dance program contact Jayne King at jking@accd.edu or 348-2225.
Movement is life and movement is the source of dance. Anyone....has a capacity to move, even if it is just your little finger or a movement carried as an image in your mind's eye.
-- Anna Halprin
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