Dance Appreciation

I love to dance and I love to cheer, so why do I hate my Dance Appreciation class at UNT? I need a three credit course to satisfy the art credit for my degree. Unfortunately, LSUS doesn't have a three credit course in dance--or cheerleading for that matter--and I do not want to take an art class. For these reasons, I thought I would take advantage of my Fall semester at UNT, and take a three credit dance course. I should have known it would not be that simple. Signing up for the class, and getting approving my Dean at LSUS wasn't a problem, but the class is. I also should have known that a class named Appreciation of Dance as an Art Form would not be a blow-off class. So far, I have attended a ballet, a musical, and I don't even know what to call the performance I just left. We are assigned seven performances this semester and attendance is mandatory. Then we must write a four-page review of the performance. How can you describe costumes, dance moves, and set in enough words to fill up four-pages? I should be appreciative that I get to attend such performances in Dallas, but I just can't get into it. I hope The Nutcracker performance in November will spark my interest. Otherwise, I am stuck writing creative non-fiction for more than one class this semester.