Continues DANC 3520. Offers students an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of compositional approaches that reinforce their own art and craft. Students conduct scholarly research to create a work and write a paper chronicling how that research influenced their choreographic process. Students analyze live performances to consider how dance theory, criticism, and practice intersect. Students must demonstrate an ability to articulate physically and in writing the concepts presented. Integration of movement material with cognitive operations and movement intentions, including physical memory and sensory awareness, is refined to develop quality of movement as a platform for artistic expression. Assumes past practices supply a body of knowledge that deepen theoretical engagement with the work. Culminates in an informal showing.