Major in Dance

Performance Concentration

Prepare for your career as a performer or choreographer with the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance (Performance Concentration)!

• Study dance technique, theory, teaching, and creative process.
• Create and produce multiple choreography projects.
• Perform in concerts.
• Learn dance production skills.
• Develop career skills to get you noticed and hired.

Students complete a rigorous curriculum that provides professional training and go on to careers as performers and choreographers in contemporary, ballet, jazz, and modern dance companies and in entertainment, musical theatre, and commercial productions.

Dance Entrepreneurship Concentration

Prepare for your career as a dance educator, administrator, and entrepreneur with the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance (Dance Entrepreneurship Concentration)!

• Study dance technique, theory, teaching, and creative process.
• Perform in concerts.
• Learn the business of dance and develop a business plan.
• Develop professional level teaching skills with internships.

Students go on to careers teaching dance in the private, nonprofit, or collegiate studio settings, open their own businesses, become dance administrators, or pursue graduate school.

Prepare for your career or continued study in dance-related areas with the Bachelor of Arts in Dance! 

• Study dance technique, theory, teaching, and creative process.
• Have flexibility to study a second major.
• Perform in concerts.
• Learn dance production skills.

Students have successfully double majored in such areas including business, communications, psychology, education, accounting, allied health sciences, and nutrition for careers as dance therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, dance educators, studio owners.