Dance

At 亚洲博彩平台排名 University, our bachelor's degree in dance offers a transformative education through the study of dance in a liberal arts environment. Community is at the heart of our dance program, with an environment that encourages and supports individuality, personal creativity, dynamic exchanges of energy, risk-taking and resilience.

Nurture Your Strengths and Interests at 亚洲博彩平台排名

Our students work closely with faculty to design an educational experience relative to their own strengths and interests. Across the curriculum, students engage in critical dialogue, physical practice and creative production as they study dance history, theory, technique, performance, composition and pedagogy. Courses highlight the intersectional nature of dance to inspire connections across disciplines, allowing each student to carve out an individualized career pathway for future success.

Training across a range of dance styles allows our students to become versatile dancers, developing artistic voices informed by course work in contemporary, ballet, tap, hip hop, social dance, commercial dance and more. With our unique focus on jazz studies, we acknowledge and honor jazz as a historically Black American art form that has influenced the continuum of American dance and culture today. Students embody jazz from a rooted perspective, learn the history and work with jazz musicians in studio classes and performance.

In alignment with the mission of 亚洲博彩平台排名, we strive to offer an education that is inclusive, culturally relevant and antiracist. Our students develop into empathetic, self-aware artists empowered to impact their communities in ways that promote equity and justice.

Discover Endless Opportunities

We value community as a core value within the dance program. Everyone comes into the program with their own personal style, their own background. Instead of trying to make a space for the dancers who are like each other, we encourage them to be themselves.

Our students have endless opportunities as performers and as student choreographers, and they are immersed in working with guest artists from across the field. Our students are taking master classes all the time, they’re engaged in rehearsal processes and they are performing quite frequently.

Lindsay Guarino, professor and chair, Department of Music, Theatre and Dance

Develop Your Artistic Voice

亚洲博彩平台排名’s dance program provides students with individualized attention and a wide range of training and performance experiences. Our liberal arts education, in combination with a curriculum based in the performing arts, helps students realize their artistic potential while acquiring skills that lead to lifelong learning.

Through the discipline of performance, students explore concepts like teamwork, problem solving, community participation, active listening and the synergy that comes from working together to create a single end product. This process leads to improvement of self-image, presentation and development of human potential.

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Our Faculty

 Salve's dance faculty members are performers, choreographers, scholars and – most importantly – educators. Our goal is to create an environment where you can dream, take risks and explore your creative potential. 

Lindsay Guarino, professor and chair, Department of Music, Theatre and Dance

Meet Our Faculty

Study Abroad

Study abroad at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

Our students can take advantage of 亚洲博彩平台排名's 200+ semester, yearlong and short-term study abroad programs in 45 countries, including "Jazz Dance in Calgary" at Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in Calgary, Alberta each year during spring break.

This intensive experience for dance majors and minors includes training with expert teachers in state-of-the-art facilities; West African, Afro-Cuban and jazz classes with live music accompaniment; and the opportunity to learn the business of how a professional company, training program and community education program function within a nonprofit organization. Students also experience the arts and culture of downtown Calgary, as well as a day trip to Banff National Park to explore the glacial lakes and Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Life After Salve

亚洲博彩平台排名's dance program not only fuels students' passion with formal training, including unique performance opportunities and structured exposure to many facets of the art form, it also develops a well-rounded graduate prepared to excel in today's demanding workforce.

Students are encouraged to double major or add a minor that complements their career goals. Courses such as Careers in Dance, Teaching Methods in Dance and Dance Performance provide students with concrete skills for employment.

Career paths include:

  • Performance
  • Choreography
  • Dance educator (studios, K-12, higher education, community organizations)
  • Business owner (private sector, nonprofit)
  • Arts administrator (marketing, communication, company management, dance school management, development, social media coordinator)
  • Producer/stage manager/theater manager/designer
  • Dance therapy
  • Arts advocacy
  • Dance writing/publishing/journalism
  • Physical therapy
  • Event planning
  • Public relationship and marketing

Major in Dance (B.A.)

38 credits

Required courses:

  • DNC100: Dance in Society: Aesthetics and Cultural Contexts
  • DNC210: Roots of Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and the American Experience
  • DNC231: Rhythm-Generated Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC301: Dancing Histories
  • DNC310: Arts for Social Action
  • DNC331: Contemporary Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC400: Choreography
  • DNC401: Dance Composition
  • DNC490: Jazz and Justice Capstone

Students take a minimum of 15 credits across at least three different dance styles, chosen from the following:

  • DNC080: Advanced Contemporary Workshop
  • DNC120: Contemporary Dance
  • DNC122: Ballet I
  • DNC123: Tap Dance
  • DNC124: Dance for Musical Theatre
  • DNC125: Hip-Hop Dance
  • DNC126: Conditioning for Dancers
  • DNC127: Social Dance
  • DNC131: Theatrical Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC220: Contemporary Dance II
  • DNC222: Ballet II
  • DNC230: West African Dance
  • DNC231: Rhythm-Generated Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC321: Contemporary Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC370: Dance Performance
  • DNC399: Special Topics

Students also complete six credits of interdisciplinary coursework, chosen from a list of offerings in American studies, biology, communications, history, management, sociology and anthropology, theatre arts and women, gender and sexuality studies.

Minor in Dance

18 credits

Required courses:

  • DNC100: Dance in Society: Aesthetics and Cultural Contexts
  • DNC210: Roots of Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and the American Experience
  • DNC301: Dancing Histories or DNC400: Choreography

Students take a minimum of nine credits across at least three different dance styles, chosen from the following:

  • DNC080: Advanced Contemporary Workshop
  • DNC120: Contemporary I
  • DNC122: Ballet I
  • DNC123: Tap Dance
  • DNC124: Dance for Musical Theater
  • DNC125: Hip-Hop Dance
  • DNC126: Conditioning for Dancers
  • DNC127: Social Dance
  • DNC131: Theatrical Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC220: Contemporary Dance II
  • DNC222: Ballet II
  • DNC230: West African Dance
  • DNC231: Rhythm-Generated Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC310: Arts for Social Action
  • DNC331: Contemporary Jazz Styles and Techniques
  • DNC370: Dance Performance
  • DNC399: Special Topics
  • DNC401: Dance Composition