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Dance – Performance and Choreography
Minor

Dance – Performance and Choreography Minor

The Dance – Performance and Choreography Minor provides students majoring in other disciplines with the opportunity to develop technical dance skills, creative expression, and a deeper understanding of dance as an art form. Students gain hands-on experience in performance, choreography, and production. This minor can also serve as a pathway into the dance major sequence.

The minor enhances students’ kinesthetic knowledge and performance presence, which can be applied in any career that requires physical skill and confidence. Through courses in dance composition, dance production, and dance history/cultural studies, the Dance Performance and Choreography minor also emphasizes the creative process, knowledge of how to produce a stage concert, and how to understand dance in socio-cultural and historical contexts. Our graduates have applied these skills and concepts in fields as diverse as education, publishing, journalism, anthropology, communication, social work, physical therapy, acting, broadcasting, and many more.

  • How to Add a Minor

    Students must complete an application and either pass a dance major audition or receive faculty recommendation upon successful completion of a non-major dance technique course. Students must complete the college's program update form:

  • Courses & Curriculum

    The Dance – Performance and Choreography Minor requires a minimum of 18 credit hours. Coursework includes foundational dance techniques, composition, dance production, and electives that allow students to deepen their technical and creative practice.

Careers with a Minor in Performance and Choreography

This Dance – Performance and Choreography Minor enhances students’ kinesthetic knowledge and performance presence, which can be applied in any career that requires physical skill and confidence. Through courses in dance composition, dance production, and dance history/cultural studies, the Dance Performance and Choreography Minor also emphasizes the creative process, knowledge of how to produce a stage concert, and how to understand dance in socio-cultural and historical contexts.

Our graduates have applied these skills and concepts in fields as diverse as education, publishing, journalism, anthropology, communication, social work, physical therapy, acting, broadcasting, and many more.

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