Requirements

Prior to moderation: a minimum of four credits of Technique; three credits of Dance Composition.

All moderating students must submit choreography for consideration in one of the year’s two moderation dance concerts. Each moderating student must present performance work for consideration into the major. Once accepted into the Program, students may choose to concentrate in creative work, performance, or both.

Once moderated, requirements for the major include: two courses in Technique per semester (including three Ballet and one World Dance and Culture course); three levels of Dance Composition (if concentrating in performance, two levels); Dance History; Anatomy for Dancers; a music course; two courses in arts disciplines outside of dance; an additional history course outside of the dance program; and a writing and/or criticism course (e.g. Philosophy of Art) justified by the student (by junior year).

For the Senior Project in Dance, students prepare choreography, performance, or other material of appropriate scope and size for public presentation. All Senior Projects will include a 20- to 30-page paper which will synthesize interests in areas outside of dance where appropriate, and which will relate these processes to the development of the specific work presented.