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SESSIONS An Overview of a Creative Dance Course through a Multimedia CD-ROM by Billie Lepczyk, USA Paper This session provides a demonstration of a CD-ROM that was developed as an instructional tool for a university wide course in Creative Dance. In this course each assignment culminates in a dance, and each dance has a dance score. The dance score, consisting of floorplans, notation, essays, and art work, serves as a means to increase understanding and learning in the ephemeral art of dance. The curriculum was developed to introduce dance documentation and dance elements simultaneously. The progression of the curriculum is reviewed through the focus of the dance assignments, the resulting dances, and the varying components of their scores. The CD-ROM will be utilized to present an overview of the Creative Dance curriculum.
Billie Lepczyk an Associate Professor of dance education at Virginia Tech, holds a doctorate from Columbia University where she was a Teachers College Fellow and Dance Notation Bureau Certifications as Professional Notator, Laban Movement Analyst, and Labanotation Teacher. She is also certified as a Hatha Yoga Teacher and Pilates Teacher. Dr. Lepczyk is a Fellow of the International Council of Kinetography Laban and the AAHPERD Research Consortium and is the recipient of the 1998 National Dance Association Scholar/Artist Award. Her current research concerns integrating aspects of yoga into dance technique class to facilitate achieving optimal body alignment.
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