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Package for Colleges and Universities: Whacking as a Semester Course or Workshop
Overview This package is designed for colleges and universities interested in offering whacking (a stylized street dance form) as a semester-long course or a short-format workshop. It presents curriculum options, learning outcomes, staffing and facility needs, assessment approaches, scheduling models, and sample syllabi. Materials are adaptable for academic credit, elective offerings, community education, or student clubs.
Learning Objectives
Develop foundational technique in whacking: body isolation, arm lines, wrist articulation, and footwork.
Understand historical and cultural context: origins, evolution, and influence within dance and LGBTQ+ communities.
Build performance skills: musicality, timing, spatial awareness, and improvisation.
Cultivate freestyle skills: phrase writing, composition, and group structures.
Foster safe practice: injury prevention, warm-ups, and inclusive class environments.
Critically engage: viewing, discussing, and reflecting on whacking in broader cultural and artistic contexts.
Course (semester) Formats
Semester Course (12–15 weeks)
Weekly structure: 2–3 hours/week (lecture/demonstration + technique and practice).
Credit options: 1–3 credits depending on contact hours and institutional policy.
Components: technique labs, choreography assignments, written reflections, historical/contextual seminars, midterm and final practical performance or project.
Assessment: practical exams, performance, written essays/reflections, participation, peer review.
Guest Choreography Workshop
Short Workshop (1–5 days)
Daily structure: 2–4 hours/day intensive.
Focus: technique fundamentals, signature movement vocabulary, basic/intermediate waacking technique and performance.
Package for Colleges and Universities: Whacking as a Semester Course or Workshop
Overview This package is designed for colleges and universities interested in offering whacking (a stylized street dance form) as a semester-long course or a short-format workshop. It presents curriculum options, learning outcomes, staffing and facility needs, assessment approaches, scheduling models, and sample syllabi. Materials are adaptable for academic credit, elective offerings, community education, or student clubs.
Learning Objectives
Develop foundational technique in whacking: body isolation, arm lines, wrist articulation, and footwork.
Understand historical and cultural context: origins, evolution, and influence within dance and LGBTQ+ communities.
Build performance skills: musicality, timing, spatial awareness, and improvisation.
Cultivate freestyle skills: phrase writing, composition, and group structures.
Foster safe practice: injury prevention, warm-ups, and inclusive class environments.
Critically engage: viewing, discussing, and reflecting on whacking in broader cultural and artistic contexts.
Course (semester) Formats
Semester Course (12–15 weeks)
Weekly structure: 2–3 hours/week (lecture/demonstration + technique and practice).
Credit options: 1–3 credits depending on contact hours and institutional policy.
Components: technique labs, choreography assignments, written reflections, historical/contextual seminars, midterm and final practical performance or project.
Assessment: practical exams, performance, written essays/reflections, participation, peer review.
Guest Choreography Workshop
Short Workshop (1–5 days)
Daily structure: 2–4 hours/day intensive.
Focus: technique fundamentals, signature movement vocabulary, basic/intermediate waacking technique and performance.