Composition and Choreography

Students can explore the creative aspect of dance in three levels of Dance Composition and Choreography courses which are offered for academic credit. Two courses are offered every year — Dance Composition: Process and Presence and Dance Composition: Elements and Craft — and introduce the fundamentals and possibilities of dancemaking. These two courses may be taken in any order. Dancemaking can also be explored in Screendance: Movement and the Camera.

The Advanced Choreography course gives students the opportunity to work one-on-one with a faculty mentor over the course of the semester to fully develop choreographic intent and produce a substantial work. It requires ARTD 142 and 242 as pre-requisites.

Students may continue to engage in compositional and choreographic work through the senior capstone course for majors.

DANCE COURSES and SCHEDULE