Oct 14, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Dance MFA


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The Department of Theatre and Dance seeks dance artists with diverse interests and backgrounds to apply for our new practice-based, creative research oriented MFA. Students will focus on embodied inquiry through choreographic creation and performance, while engaging with a comprehensive core curriculum of practice and theory courses that emphasize the development of the whole artist, body and mind. With close faculty mentorship and numerous opportunities to create and present work, students will cultivate the knowledge and skills necessary to become the next generation of innovative dance makers, leaders, teaching-artists, and artist-scholars.

Required Core (32 credits)


Physical Practice (10 credits)


Select 5 credits in 1 technique area and 5 additional credits as approved by advisor.

Examples of course offerings:

Applied Anatomy & Theories of the Body (3 credits)


Select 1 from:

Teaching (5 credits)


Electives (12 credits)


  • Select 6 credits in secondary area of study as approved by advisor.
  • Select 6 credits outside of the department as approved by advisor.

Culminating Experience: Project (18 credits)


Complete all 4:

Total Credit Hours: 60


3.0 Degree GPA required

 

Instruction Method


  • In Person (100 percent of courses offered in person)

Full/Part Time Options


  • Full Time

Credits Required


  • 60 Hours

Time-To-Degree


  • 3 Years

Application Fee


  • $75

Special Requirements


  • Audition required

SED Statement


This program is officially registered with the New York State Education Department (SED).

Online programs/courses may require students to come to campus on occasion. Time-to-degree and number of credit hours may vary based on full/part time status, degree, track and/or certification option chosen. Time-to-degree is based on calendar year(s). Contact the department for details.

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