Spring 2027

Dance Composition III

Dance Composition III covers principles of organization in group composition, including the planning, composing, and presenting of group dances.

offering recorded2–3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Li Chiao-Ping

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.80 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.89 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop one's creative habit

  • Develop one's personal and unique voice as a dancemaker

  • Build one's compositional toolbox

  • Create dance works with different methods of generating, forming, and shaping

  • Stretch and expand: take risks, be daring, try out the unfamiliar, explore new concepts, work out of the box

  • Create work inspired by or in response to different stimuli

  • Increase one's understanding of the art and craft of movement composition

  • Communicate one's ideas effectively in written and spoken form--on paper and in person, in words and in dance.

  • Display organizational skills: work alone and with groups, prepare, schedule, and hold rehearsals

  • Meet deadlines; complete projects or studies, take an idea and carry it through to the end

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

Course map

DANCE 255,DANCE 355, or graduate/professional standing

DANCE 455

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Professors

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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.80 GPA, 80.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.89 GPA, 88.9% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Principles of organization in group composition
  • Planning, composing, and presenting group dances

Skills

  • Group dance composition and presentation
  • Building a compositional toolbox
  • Organizational skills for rehearsals and projects

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Catalog & offerings

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DANCE 455 · Spring 2027

Dance Composition III

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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