DANCE 101

Theories of Dance

Dance · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Ideas of dance, choreography, and movement have achieved broad resonance in contemporary performance, art, politics, culture, and studies of social behavior. Examination of concepts and approaches to dance studies and deployments of its vocabulary within field and beyond, concentrated in four principal approaches: history, ethnography, choreographic analysis, and critical theory. Use of key ideas in dance to investigate allied areas of performance, embodiment, social constructions of identity and difference, and relationship between aesthetics and politics. Design of dance performances to illustrate link between theory and practice. How dance creates alternative modes of history and knowledge in range of cultural contexts.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Winter 2026
Winter 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Enforced requisite: course 45.

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DANCE 45

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

DANCE 101

DANCE 45Introduction to Dance Studies
- DANCE 44World Dance Histories

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 2 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

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