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The Dance program offers a four-year undergraduate program leading to a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. Students have the opportunity to develop and hone dance technique that offers both experiential and theoretical dance education. A variety of dance genres and subjects are at the core of the degree, presenting students with the opportunity to study Ballet, Modern, Jazz, and Tap as well as World Dance, Choreography, Dance History, and Dance Criticism.

While emphasis is on technique and theory, performance and production opportunities, on and off campus, allow students to fully immerse themselves and experience the creative process that Dance has to offer.

The program works to enrich the overall dance education of the student instilling the importance and contributions that Dance has to offer and its place within our culture and society. Interested BA Dance students may pursue an area of emphasis in Dance Education.

Upon competition of the BA in Dance, students will be able to:

• Identify and work conceptually with the elements of dance in a variety of dance genres
• Understand the choreographic processes, aesthetic properties of style, and the ways these shape and are shaped by artistic and cultural ideas and contexts
• Appreciate a wide selection of dance repertory, the principal eras, genres, and cultural sources
• Develop and defend critical evaluations
• Demonstrate a fundamental knowledge of the body and of kinesiology as applicable to work in dance
• Show an understanding of procedures for realizing a variety of dance styles
• Perform basic through advanced dance techniques within the student鈥檚 area of interest
• Exhibit knowledge and/or skills in one or more areas of dance beyond basic coursework and performance appropriate to the individual鈥檚 needs and interests, and be consistent with the goals and objectives of the specific liberal arts degree program being followed
• Understand the place of dance as an art form and educational tool within a social context, globally and on the national level

Performance Opportunities

The School of Theatre & Dance presents a dance concert at the end of each semester that showcases student work. Participation/casting in these recitals is by audition.

The School also presents a fully produced annual dance concert, Dance Now!, in the spring semester. Featuring a blend of professional and student dancers and choreographers, Dance Now! is the School's premier dance concert for the year.

The Dance Program also participates annually in the Morgantown Dance Festival, West Virginia Dance Festival, and the American College Dance Associations' Festival.