Spring 2027

Contemporary Dance Forms

Advanced contemporary dance forms focusing on technique, theory, and artistic performance with a wide range of technical skills.

offering recorded1–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Christopher Walker3.0/5Jin-Wen Yu

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate technical specificity, musicality, and artistic confidence inballet and contemporary dance techniques through sequenced skill level progressions.

  • Recognize, identify, and embody a wide range of somatic theories andpractices and produce work investigating its impacts and uses in contemporary dance as practice.

  • Demonstrate an advanced level of contemporary dance literacy andartistry.

  • Assess theoretic work, performance growth, and creative work by utilizing curricular scaffolded reflective and critical assessment approaches.

  • Compose dance work for the concert stage and/or alternate spaces.

  • Choreograph combination variation that demonstrates an extended challenge (appropriately scaffolded) for performance and to teach to undergraduate peers in class.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).

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JIN-WEN YU is recorded teaching in Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LAB 001Classroom Instruction0 / 280
LAB 002Classroom Instruction0 / 290

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.89 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Contemporary dance technique and theory
  • Somatic theories and practices in contemporary dance
  • Artistic performance

Skills

  • Contemporary dance technique and theory at an advanced level, including ballet and contemporary dance techniques.
  • Recognizing, identifying, and embodying somatic theories and practices in contemporary dance.
  • Composing dance work for the concert stage or alternate spaces and choreographing variations for performance and teaching.

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DANCE 410 · Spring 2027

Contemporary Dance Forms

Recorded 2026-10-14
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