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Upcoming Classes

Thursday, Sept. 13th

Motion and Dance, Part 2

Assignment due:

* Read “Motions without Turns”, Physics and the Art of Dance, K. Laws, Pages 36-51

* First draft of first oral presentation or written paper

Tuesday, Sept. 18th

Dance at the Nexus

Assignment due:

* Read “The Mechanics of Movement”, The New Way Things Work, D. Macaulay, Pages 8-27

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Upcoming Deadlines

Thursday, September 13th

First draft of your first term paper or your

oral presentation

Thursday, September 27th

First Set of Oral Presentations

First term paper (if not giving presentation)

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Oral Presentations

The following persons will give oral presentations on Thursday, September 27th :

Batres, Adan

Boyd, Heidi

Chen, Emily

Kwiatkowski, Dajon

Lebedeff, Christopher

Lipton, Christopher

For everyone else, your first term paper is due on that date.

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Extra Credit: SF Museum of Art

Visit San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and see Abstract Expressionist paintings.

Turn in your ticket receipt ($7 for students). Worth one homework assignment; deadline is Oct. 16th

Guardians of the Secret, Jackson Pollock, 1943

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Extra Credit: San Jose Ballet

See a performance of San Jose Ballet in San Jose Center for Performing Arts (Nov. 15th – 18th ).

Turn in your ticket receipt. Worth one homework assignment or three quiz/participation credits.

Ramon Moreno in CARMINA BURANA

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Extra Credit: Cypress Quartet

SJSU Celebrates 150th with Cypress String Quartet Event Fusing Precision Playing with World-Class Technology

SJSU Music Concert Hall, 7 p.m. Thur., Sept. 20th.

I will hand out tickets at the door from 6:30 to 6:50pm; don’t be late to the performance! Worth two quiz/participation extra credits.

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Quiz

Put your name on a sheet of paper and answer the following questions from today’s reading assignment:

What is a Grand Jeté?

What is the Grand Jeté “Floating” Illusion?

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Motion & Dance (I)

Balance and Motion without Turns

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Dance