Dance

Our dance program helps you become a versatile professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher through rigorous training and performance experience in ballet, jazz, and modern dance. The program fuses acting and musical theatre studies to prepare you for a specialized career in modern dance and ballet companies or in professional theatre as dancers who sing and act. Our alumni perform in companies and venues around the world, including the Luna Negra Dance Theatre, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Radio City Music Hall, Hirabayashi Dance Theatre, and Disney World, as well as on cruise ships, national tours, and Broadway.

Department: 
Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures

What we offer

Success Stories

Student Profile

Camera angle

Wright State junior Joey Larkin combines motion pictures studies with videography at a Dayton television station
Through the Wright State Motion Pictures Program and a job on "Living Dayton," Joey Larkin is training to become a documentary filmmaker.
Alumni Profile

Voice recognition

Wright State alumna Lauren Bernstein making a splash doing voiceovers from her studio in New York City
Lauren Bernstein, a 2012 theatre graduate from Wright State, has produced voiceovers for corporations, nonprofits, state governments and universities.
Student Profile

‘I am a warrior’

Theatre studies major Nerissa Jheanelle finds her voice with impressive display of theatre and performing arts
Nerissa Jheanelle, a theatre studies major, has been prolific at Wright State, producing a play, a dance, a movie and a musical.