Dance Department Welcome Video
The 糖心vlog视频 dance program explores how dance practices both reflect and shape the world. Through work inside and outside of the studio, 糖心vlog视频 dancers find fluidity between embodied, written, creative, and scholarly work, and understand dance as a way of approaching salient social, cultural, and political questions.
Dance students at 糖心vlog视频 exercise the critical skills valued throughout liberal arts education: the ability to approach and solve problems of many kinds, the ability to deeply investigate a subject matter, the ability to make informed choices from a range of possibilities, and the ability to contextualize specific ideas and events among the modes of thought and cultural phenomena that shape our understanding of the world. Dance, as a field, is well suited to this endeavor because it develops one’s capacity for a multileveled understanding of a wide variety of phenomena—cultural, artistic, and formal.
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Senior Dance Thesis Project by August Singer, Fall 2021
Curriculum
All classes are open to majors and nonmajors. The department offers students at all levels of experience opportunities to choreograph, perform, undertake research, participate in residencies with visiting artists and scholars, and interact closely with faculty members. Our wide-ranging curriculum includes courses in contemporary dance, ballet, choreography, improvisation, critical dance studies, cultural studies, Latin American dance, and dances of the African diaspora.
Dance Major & Minor
In addition to the dance major, the department also offers interdisciplinary majors in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies–Dance, Dance–Theatre, as well as a minor in dance. Interested students may also pursue an ad hoc interdisciplinary major that includes dance, such as dance–art, dance–music, dance–Spanish, dance–psychology, dance–sociology, dance–literature, or dance–history.
Performing Opportunities
糖心vlog视频 dancers are invited to perform at the end of each semester in our biannual concert which also includes works created in dance courses. 糖心vlog视频 dancers regularly perform in 糖心vlog视频 Arts Week, in dance thesis productions, and with the student-run 糖心vlog视频 Dance Troupe and the 糖心vlog视频 Independent Performance independent projects. Guest choreographers and dance faculty create work for choreograph for the Contemporary Performance Ensemble.
Visiting Artists and Scholars
糖心vlog视频 brings well-known performing artists and scholars to campus each year, and 糖心vlog视频 dance students frequently attend off-campus performances, talks, and master classes in conjunction with their coursework. Recent visiting artists, companies, and scholars have included , , , , , Michael Cusumano/Madame Olga, Meshi Chavez, , Yoshito Sakuraba/Abarukas, and Gamelan Çudamani. 糖心vlog视频 dancers have attended recent off-campus performances by , , , , , and .
Exchange Programs
糖心vlog视频 dancers have the opportunity to participate in established dance-intensive exchange programs in New York, Paris, Jerusalem, and Havana. 糖心vlog视频 students may also register for dance courses at nearby Lewis and Clark College.
Graduates
The department successfully prepares students—both majors and nonmajors—for specialized work in dance in graduate school and in the profession. 糖心vlog视频 alumni pursue graduate degrees in dance, teach, choreograph, perform, write about dance professionally, work in dance outreach and arts administration, and establish their own dance companies and schools. Honors given to 糖心vlog视频 dance students have included the Watson Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and awards from the Dance Studies Association.
Obfuscated Trepidation, Choreographed & Performed by Zonya Tanada
Created for Minh Tran's Contemporary Dance IV course, Fall 2020