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DANCE 16Beginning Improvisation in Dance

Dance · 2 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Introduction to creative exploration in movement through improvisational and compositional exercises that access and develop imagination, find relationship between imagination and dance making, and enrich movement vocabulary. May be repeated for credit without limitation.

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DANCE 16

  • DANCE 67ATheories and Methods in Dance Composition I: Languages
    • DANCE 67BTheories and Methods in Dance Composition II: Processes
      • DANCE 117ATheories and Methods in Dance Composition III: Locationsanother path to it
      • DANCE 117BTheories and Methods in Dance Composition IV: Impactsanother path to it
      • DANCE 117CAdvanced Topics in Choreographyanother path to it
    • DANCE 117ATheories and Methods in Dance Composition III: Locationsanother path to it
    • DANCE 117BTheories and Methods in Dance Composition IV: Impactsanother path to it
    • DANCE 117CAdvanced Topics in Choreographyanother path to it
    • DANCE C122Music and Dance Collaborations
    • DANCE C222Music and Dance Collaborations
  • DANCE 116Advanced Improvisation in Dance
  • DANCE 117ATheories and Methods in Dance Composition III: Locations
  • DANCE 117BTheories and Methods in Dance Composition IV: Impacts
  • DANCE 117CAdvanced Topics in Choreography

5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 14 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027

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