Degree Outcomes

• Career options include performance and choreography positions, as well as arts administration and teaching in a school or community setting.
• Graduates of the program have also pursued careers in lighting and costume design for dance, dance science/medicine, dance history, dance notation, graphic design for dance, dance photography, writing about dance, and dance technology.

The Student Experience

• A variety of internships are available in schools and community dance settings.
• Students can work with the community outreach program, Dancers Connect.
• To connect students to the profession, the school regularly brings in master teachers and guest choreographers.
• The school produces 10–12 concerts each year with many opportunities for undergraduates to perform. Typically, choreography by undergraduate students is showcased in three to four concerts each year.
• Students have opportunities to participate in Prime Movers, a social and educational club responsible for annual concerts of student work, and Delta Chi Xi Honorary Dance Fraternity.
• An arts-based living community, “Studio 91” in Cone Residence Hall, features music, theater, and dance practice rooms; music composition computer lab; drawing lounge; and arts-related programs and events.
• Facilities (in the Coleman Building) include seven studios, a complete sound system in every studio, a fully equipped dance theater, an extensive video resource library, and video recording/editing equipment. Live accompaniment is provided for many technique classes.

The School of Dance curriculum includes:

• Four levels of contemporary dance, three levels of ballet, three levels of jazz, three levels of African dance, one level of hip-hop, two levels of tap, and dance for musical theatre.
• Classes in improvisation, global dance forms, performance/repertory, choreography, dance history, screen dance, dance production and technology, body sciences and somatic practices for dance, dance entrepreneurship, administration, and dance education.

Accreditations & Affiliations

• National Association of Schools of Dance
• American College Dance Association
• National Dance Education Organization
• N.C. National Dance Education Organization

Additional Requirements

An audition is required for undergraduate entry into UNCG dance programs. Auditions are held twice a year — fall and spring — in the Coleman Building. (Dance minors are not required to audition.) More information is online at vpa.uncg.edu/dance/apply.