Jazz Dance Teaching Preparation and Performance - Certificate of Achievement
The Jazz Dance Teaching and Performance Certificate of Achievement recognizes the completion and mastery of vernacular jazz technique as a critical foundation for teaching and performance in dance and related performing arts careers. Students will examine basic form and function, movement theory, improvisation, and Dance History with an emphasis on art as a tool for building social justice awareness. Musicality, African vernacular dance forms, spatial awareness, performance readiness, injury prevention, and dance making through creation of group and solo choreography. After completing this program, students will be able to teach dance in camp and afterschool settings, perform in multi-level