The Dance Major

About Dance

The dance majors at GHP always have an action packed six weeks and this year is no exception. Our four hours in the morning include technique classes, dance history, improvisation, seminars, composition, films, and choreography. GHP strives to offer different and, or, unique opportunities for its students. In dance one way this is accomplished is through our improvisation classes. IN these classes we go through series of exercises which enable us to come up with our own movement ideas. We then put these ideas or movement phrases into a form which become a set piece we can present on stage. This is one example of student involvement in the process.

Dance

v. danced, danc·ing, danc·esv. intr.

  1. To move rhythmically usually to music, using prescribed or improvised steps and gestures.
    1. To leap or skip about excitedly.
    2. To appear to flash or twinkle: eyes that danced with merriment.
    3. Informal. To appear to skip about; vacillate: danced around the issue.
  3. To bob up and down.
v. tr.
  1. To engage in or perform (a dance).
  2. To cause to dance.
  3. To bring to a particular state or condition by dancing: My partner danced me to exhaustion.
n.
  1. A series of motions and steps, usually performed to music.
  2. The art of dancing: studied dance in college.
  3. A party or gathering of people for dancing; a ball.
  4. One round or turn of dancing: May I have this dance?
  5. A musical or rhythmical piece composed or played for dancing.
  6. The act or an instance of dancing.

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