dance admissions

The Department of Dance, with its three studios, rehearsal room, Dance Medicine Clinic, black box theater and assorted classrooms, embraces a broad array of activities. The people engaged in dance are seeking better, fuller, and more powerful ways of approaching dance as artists, teachers, and scholars. Faculty and students, graduates and undergraduates, are involved in this on-going creative and scholarly process.

On the faculty are people who combine specific commitments to performance, teaching, choreography, research, and writing. Each course in the curriculum reflects a particular stance and perspective on dance. The wide, rich, and unique range of resources that each faculty member brings to the department informs this diverse environment. Faculty and students connect with each other and to the dance activities of the Philadelphia community in many ways. Many alumni and numerous students perform with Philadelphia-based companies both as company members and as independent artists. These interactions provide exciting exchanges between the Philadelphia cultural community and our department.

Within the usual program of full-time study, a student can expect to become acquainted with new resources for dance, develop academic and artistic work in dance, and shape her or his particular interest into a form that can be shared with other artists and/or scholars and the wider society. Students produce concerts, conferences, curricula, community projects, major papers, and research as they define their goals in dance studies.