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    • ARTD-B225-001 Course Evaluation URL
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      ARTD-B225-001            Dancing Histories           

      Please spend 15 minutes providing candid and thoughtful responses to the questions on this survey. Your answers will be anonymous. The instructor will see the responses only after course grades have been submitted to the Registrar. The college will use the information you provide in the evaluation of faculty members, as well as for evaluating and improving the student experience at the college generally.

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      Students will focus on writing descriptively about their chosen work, using vivid language, analogies, and poetic images to convey the tone, structure, movement qualities, and overall design of the dance; 500–800 words. As all description is already interpretation, these descriptive passages of writing will reveal how the dance makes meaning as well as what it “looks” like. 

      Each student should read another students’ excerpt and offer them some peer-review feedback. 

      First, carefully read through your assigned passage. You may want to do this twice to really absorb it. 

      Second, highlight words, phrases, or images that are particularly descriptive. You may need to copy and paste them into your comments on the original post. 

      Third, ask for MORE of something in particular: details about music, space, costuming, gesture, emotion or mood, speed, rhythm, or timing? relationships between dancers? more vivid adjectives or adverbs? more action verbs? attention to the dance’s structure? deeper interpretation/analysis of the work or event’s meaning? 

      Students will revise their writing based on this feedback experience for their final version of their descriptive passage.