Integration With Acting
The art of dance encompasses more than technical knowledge and movement skills. In order to enhance performances, dancers undertake training in acting to develop their internal responses that support the external, physical movement of dance. All dancers take one full year of acting in which they explore various skills and methods of acting. The overlapping of dance with acting allows the students to develop both disciplines in an effort to produce an educated, artistic, and versatile individual.
Integration With Music
The accomplished and artistic dancer is supported by a knowledge of and appreciation for music aesthetics. Dancers study basic music theory including time and key signatures, note values, rhythm, phrasing, and dynamics.
Dance majors take two years of private voice lessons along with a variety of music courses in jazz music, popular musical theatre, introduction to music theory, and music in the western culture.
Last updated June 11, 2007
