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undergraduate dance admissions
Frequently Asked Questions
What majors in dance are available to me if I come to Temple? The department offers one major in dance, which has an emphasis in choreography and modern dance performance. The program is modern-based, so students take a lot of modern technique classes and composition/choreography courses. In addition, classes in ballet, jazz, and African technique are offered every semester and students are required to have a secondary emphasis in one of these areas. Students also are required to take dance history and dance culture academic courses, lighting design and production courses, Laban Movement Analysis, Rhythmic Analysis, and repertory classes along with the general university core which consists of math, English, science, and humanities courses. Students graduate from the program with a strong foundation in all aspects of dance along with solid liberal arts education. Do you offer a dance minor? Are there any alternatives if you don't want to major in dance? The department does not offer a dance minor. The department does offer academic dance courses for non-majors. It is even possible for non-majors to take technique classes with the instructor's permission at the appropriate level and if space permits. Is it possible to double-major? It is possible to double major in some other academic area; however, we strongly discourage it. It is extremely difficult to complete a double major since the dance program offers a BFA degree. This means that 2/3 of the credits (84 out of 125) needed to graduate are in dance. This does not leave a lot of credits for the other major. The other difficulty with the double major is due to the set up of the dance curriculum and the sequence in which courses must be taken. We do, however, have a lot of dance students who minor in another subject area whether it is in art history, business, psychology, urban studies, etc. It is possible to complete a minor in the 4 years. A double major could possibly take 6 years to complete. What type of performances can I participate in? The Conwell Dance Theater season has many opportunities for students to perform and choreograph. A typical season features two student concerts, two Master of Fine Arts thesis concerts, two Bachelor of Fine Arts senior concerts, a faculty dance concert, and an alumni dance concert. Added to this are performances by guest artists, repertory showings, and informal student choreography performances. Each year the department brings in guest artists for master classes and residencies. Past guest artists include Ruth Andrien, a former dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, who taught classes and reconstructed Ésplanade, and Nina Watt from the Jose Limón Dance Company who reconstructed There is a Time on current dance students.
There are about 75 undergraduates and about 55 graduate students divided between the MFA, EdM, and PhD programs. The department admits around 35 undergraduate students each year, looking for about 20-25 students to matriculate. Temple University itself is a large place with about 30,000 students on the main campus. At Temple, dance students find themselves in a supportive dance community and at the same time in a large university in which there are numerous opportunities to take a lot of different courses and meet a lot of different people. What can I do with a degree in dance? What are your graduates doing? Graduates of the BFA program are doing a lot of different things. Our graduates perform in companies, start their own companies, do independent work as performers and/or choreographers, open dance studios, complete graduate work in dance, work backstage in production/lighting design, work in arts administration, etc. May
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