Dance Discovery

16 Week Dance HIstory Course made by DANCIO

A 16 week Dance History course using readings, dance classes, and written responses to introduce global dance, concert modern dance history, and contemporary concert dance of today.

Explore. Engage. Understand.

What’s Included?

Dance Discovery contains a PDF Course guide, or Pre-Built Canvas Course guide to access readings, dance classes, and written response prompts.

Dance Discovery is also included in DANCIO EDU, a full collection of Dancio’s academic and educator-focused courses.

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Includes downloaded excerpts from peer reviewed academic journals and critically acclaimed books on the history of dance.
Each module includes a dance/movement class related to the topic being studied. These classes allow for deeper kinesthetic learning.
Written response prompts are included at the end of each module to solidify material learned and allow for further personal exploration on each topic.

Dance Discovery

The goal of this course is to learn about dance around the world and gain insight into its functions across many cultures. This course will travel the globe to witness how dance has engaged humanity for centuries through ritual and community, identity and culture, entertainment and performance, and technology and protest. Dance Discovery explores how dance is used to convey cultural, social, and political ideas.

This course is designed for college-level students, but dance experience or prior knowledge of dance history is not required. The course curriculum can be adapted for various levels.