Requirements

Moderation

Prior to Moderation, students must take a minimum of:

• 4 credits in technique
• 6 credits in 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 acceptance into the major. Each moderating student will submit three essays: two as requested by the College describing your background and current relationship to the discipline and your goals moving forward in the discipline as a member of the upper college, and a third essay discussing a choreographer that has influenced your artistic life.

Once accepted, students may choose to concentrate in creative work, performance, or both.

Upper College Course Work

Once a student moderates, requirements for the major include:
● Two technique courses every semester, (a minimum of 10 credits representing no fewer than 3 Ballet, 3 African Diaspora, 3 Modern/Contemporary)
● Dance Composition III, 3 credits
● Dance History, 4 credits (1 of 2 options)
● Materials of Movement/Anatomy, 4 credits
● Writing the Body, 4 credits
● Dance Studies Elective – 4 credits; select one course from a menu of Dance Studies options:
- additional Dance History Course
- Identity Maintenance 
- Africa, Artists, and Activism 
- Common Course taught by a dance faculty member when available
● Practicing Arts course outside of Dance, 1-4 credits
● Senior Project, 8 credits 
● Performance in at least one faculty or student choreography, 0-3 credits
● Attendance at Dance Workshop. Held each semester, the workshops help students prepare for any one of four annual productions. For the Senior Project, students prepare choreography, performance, or other material of appropri­ate scope for public presentation. All Senior Projects include a 20- to 30-page paper that syn­thesizes interests in areas outside of dance where appropriate and relates these processes to the development of the specific work presented.