School Website Length to Graduate: 4 Years Location: VA-Roanoke Students per Class: 1-10 Tuition to Graduate: $115,640 Subject: Dance

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The Hollins Repertory Dance Company (HRDC), comprising undergraduate dance majors, has garnered national attention for its imaginative, energy-filled performances. Since 2003, students have performed more than 80 new works by students, alumni, and guest artists, including Nicholas Leichter, Miguel Gutierrez, Jen Nugent, Ayo Jackson, Jen McGinn, Emily Wexler, Helen Simoneau, and Dawn Springer. Using the resource of the dance media lab, HRDC students expand their ideas with the use of digital sound, video, and animation. The HRDC gives students the opportunity to perform on a professional level, with gratifying results. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 4 Years Location: PA-Lancaster Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $164,360 Subject: Dance

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Our Dance Curriculum integrates performance and theory. In technique, composition, and other studio-based courses, you will also be reading, writing, and analyzing your understandings. In courses that emphasize dance theory, analysis, and history, you will dance through those theories and histories in the studio.

Study with Dance Faculty holding the highest levels of training, with Masters and Doctoral degrees – a rare opportunity at the small, liberal arts college. Faculty members work directly with you: class sizes are small, guaranteeing close attention to each student, at every level, while opportunities for one-on-one study abound in choreographic advising, independent studies, internships, and research collaborations. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 4 Years Location: FL-Tallahassee Students per Class: 11-20 Tuition to Graduate: $119,964 Subject: Dance

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Dancers use dance in many ways, among which are performance, choreography, and teaching. Many dancers combine these three areas in their professional lives. Performance opportunities are varied and range from work with professional companies to regional dance organizations and university dance programs, and from resident to touring situations. Choreographic opportunities may be found in professional or civic companies, in university and college programs, in plays and musicals, movies and television. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 4 Years Location: VT-Middlebury Students per Class: 1-10 Tuition to Graduate: $208,480 Subject: Dance

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Through the Department of Theatre and Dance, the Dance Program offers a major or joint major, leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree; a minor, or the opportunity to take courses in dance for academic credit or as an auditor. Many other opportunities to dance arise each semester in guest artists’ master classes and in faculty- and student-choreographed concerts. January Term courses also provide intensive, interdisciplinary or other options to explore or extend student interest in dance.

Central to our Dance Program is the development of the creative artist and artist/scholar through critical study and regular practice in contemporary, world dance techniques; improvisation and choreography; history, theory, and cultural studies; experiential anatomy and kinesiology; and performance. Read More...

School Website Length to Graduate: 4 Years Location: MA-South Hadley Students per Class: 1-10 Tuition to Graduate: $160,280 Subject: Dance

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Dance at Mount Holyoke offers a comprehensive curriculum emphasizing technical training, creative experimentation, and critical/theoretical understanding. The department is renowned for extensive studio offerings in ballet technique, modern technique, and repertory/performance, as well as its regular offerings in West African Dance and rotating offerings in tap, jazz, contact improvisation, and other forms. Theory courses range from scientific foundations of dance to twentieth-century dance history to choreography and dance aesthetics. The department’s classes are augmented by the more than 100 theory and studio courses offered annually through the Five College Dance Department. Read More...