The Modern Dance classes at Boden Center will focus on the Horton technique. Horton is a major codified modern dance technique reputed to fortify, stretch, and strengthen the human body. A modern dance pioneer, Horton’s goal was to create a dance technique that was anatomically corrective and utilized the widest possible range of motion, with an emphasis on large, full movements done to musical phrases of varying lengths and dynamics. Horton was trying to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow, a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body, combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.
Center Floor Exercise
Students will be expected to learn and execute the modern dance vocabulary presented in a lengthy combination. The combinations will sharpen the students skills in:
- Roll downs
- Flat backs
- Flat back
- Bent coccyx balance
- Deep lunge
- Open Egyptian walks
- Percussion stroke
- Fortification studies
- Prelude studies
- Elementary balance
- Lateral pulls
- Fan kicks
- Open Egyptian turns
- Coordination exercises.
Students will be expected to learn and execute the modern dance vocabulary presented in a lengthy combination. The combinations will sharpen the students skills in:
- Learning and retaining choreography
- Musicality
- Performance and Presentation
- Self Expression
Tuition: $180.00
