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As a low-residency program, we meet the scheduling constraints of professional working performers, choreographers and educators. That means you’ll have the flexibility to learn on-campus during summer semesters and online or on-campus during the fall and spring semesters.

Our program prioritizes contemporary choreography and individual creative research. The curriculum encourages embodied scholarship and community engagement while emphasizing the reciprocal relationship between critical dance studies and choreographic research. Through intensive in-person learning and self-directed research, you’ll connect traditions to emergent forms and new communities, bringing social and racial justice into focus through practice. In-depth choreographic practice, research and dance scholarship provide a framework for you to situate your work within a global perspective.

The MFA in Dance program immerses you in choreographic research through physical and theoretical inquiry while critically examining technical movement practice through a variety of somatic and theoretical perspectives. We also support your inquiry by providing facilities and customized opportunities to investigate and perform your work nationwide. Through faculty mentorship and rigorous personal investigations, you are guided to integrate knowledge produced through creative and scholarly investigation into a final thesis project.

Our graduate faculty are nationally and internationally acclaimed performing and choreographic artists. Their research specialties span cultural perspectives, technical forms, somatic modalities, site-specific performance, improvisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, community engaged social justice work, and integration of technology and new media.

With our program, you will be well-equipped to develop your career as a professional dancer, choreographer or educator in the field. And because we are a collaborative community of artists ourselves, we are committed to providing you with an immersive and transformative educational experience to get you to where you want to be next.