2007 Higher Ed Guide
By Erin Lewis, Ariel Merrick and Janet WeeksOpportunities to continue ballet training at institutions of higher education continue to expand. Whether you are aiming for a community college, conservatory study or the broader experience of a university setting, the schools listed in this year's guide all offer ballet as well as a range of other dance courses. Every program offers a different experience, so contact the schools directly for more information.
Adelphi University
Dance Program
Woodruff Hall, Rm 200
Garden City, NY 11530
Director: Frank Augustyn
Phone: 516-877-4250
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern
Admissions deadline: March 1 (fall), November 30 (spring)
Audition required: yes
Agnes Scott University
Theatre and Dance
141 E College Ave
Decatur, GA 30030
Director: Bridget Roosa
Phone: 404-471-6940
Email: broosa@agnesscott.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: November 15, March 1
Audition required: no
The Ailey School — Fordham University
The Joan Weill Center for Dance
405 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019
Director: Denise Jefferson
Phone: 212-405-9124
Email: bfa@alvinailey.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: yes
Alfred University
Division of Performing Arts
One Saxon Dr
Alfred, NY 14802
Director: Chase Angier
Phone: 607-871-2562
Email: performs@alfred.edu
www.alfred.edu/performing_arts
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: December 1 (early), February 1
Audition required: no
Alma College
Dance Department
614 W Superior St
Alma, MI 48801
Director: Carol Fike
Phone: 989-463-7242
Email: fike@alma.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, dance history, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Amherst College
Department of Theater and Dance
PO Box 5000, AC2248
Amherst, MA 01002
Chair: Wendy Woodson
Phone: 413-542-8145
Email: wwoodson@amherst.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: November 15 (early), January 1
Audition required: no
Appalachian State University
Department of Theatre and Dance
Chapell Wilson Hall
PO Box 32123
Boone, NC 28608
Director: Ray Miller
Phone: 828-262-3028
Email: asutheatre@appstate.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern
Admissions deadline: November 15 (early), January 31
Audition required: no
Ball State University
Department of Theatre and Dance
2000 West University Ave
Muncie, IN 47306
Director: Bill Jenkins
Phone: 765-285-8740
Email: wjenkins@bsu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BS
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Barnard College at Columbia University
Department of Dance
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
Director: Mary Cochran
Phone: 212-854-2995
Email: svelasqu@barnard.edu
Degrees offered: BA, concentration
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, modern, musical theater, jazz, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: no
Belhaven College
Dance Department
1500 Peachtree St
Jackson, MS 39047
Director: Cynthia A. Newland
Phone: 601-965-1400
Email: slink@belhaven.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, certificate, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, modern, partnering
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Birmingham — Southern College
Dance Department
900 Arkadelphia Rd
Box 549015
Birmingham, AL 35254
Director: Mira Popovich
Phone: 205-226-4945
Email: rhenry@bsc.edu
www.bsc.edu/academics/arts/dance
Degrees offered: BA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: December 1
Audition required: no
Boise State University
Department of Theatre Arts
1910 University Drive
Boise, ID 83725
Director: Marla Hansen
Phone: 208-426-3568
Email: mhansen@boisestate.edu
http://theatre.boisestate.edu
Degrees offered: BA, certificate, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, musical theater
Admissions deadline: July 18
Audition required: no
The Boston Conservatory
Dance Division
8 The Fenway
Boston, MA 02215
Director: Yasuko Tokunaga
Phone: 617-912-9153
Email: admissions@bostonconservatory.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: December 15
Audition required: yes
Boston University
Department of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance
915 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215
Executive director: Warin Dexter
Phone: 617-353-2748
Email: budance@bu.edu
www.bu.edu/fitrec/programs/dance
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, hip hop, jazz, modern, partnering, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: November 1 (early and spring), January 1
Audition required: no
Bowling Green
State University
School of Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies
119 Eppler South
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Director: Deborah Tell
Phone: 419-372-6905
Email: deuler@bgsu.edu
www.bgsu.edu/colleges/edhd/hmsls
Degrees offered: BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: August 1 (fall), December 1 (spring)
Audition required: yes
Brenau University
Performing Arts/Dance Program
500 Washington St SE
Gainesville, GA 30501
Director: Vincas Greene
Phone: 770-534-6245
Email: vgreene@brenau.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Bridgewater State College
Department of Theater & Dance/Dance Program
131 Summer St
Bridgewater, MA 02325
Director: Henry Shaffer
Phone: 508-351-2193
Email: nmoses@bridgew.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: March 15
Audition required: no
Brigham Young University
Department of Dance
294 Richards Bldg
Provo, UT 84602
Chair: Lee Wakefield
Phone: 801-422-5086
Email: dance@byu.edu
http://dance.byu.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, folk dance, modern
Admissions deadline: February 1 (fall, spring, summer), October 1 (winter)
Audition required: no
Butler University
Jordan College of Fine Arts
Department of Dance
4600 Sunset Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46208
Director: Michelle Jarvis
Phone: 317-940-9346
Email: mjarvis@butler.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, BS
Courses include: ballet
Admissions deadline: March 1
Audition required: yes
California Institute of the Arts
The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance
24700 McBean Pkwy
Valencia, CA 91355
Director: Stephan Koplowitz
Phone: 661-253-7898
Email: chowell@calarts.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, modern
Admissions deadline: January 4
Audition required: yes
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Institute of New Dance and Cultures
3801 W Temple Ave
Pomona, CA 91768
Director: Gayle Fekete
Phone: 909-869-2790
Email: gmfekete@csupomona.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, world dance
Admission deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Division of Performing, Visual and Digital Arts
Dance Program
1000 E Victoria St
LCH E303
Carson, CA 90747
Chair: Carol Tubbs
Phone: 310-243-3543
Email: theatrearts@csudh.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: August 15 (fall), November 1 (spring)
Audition required: no
California State University, East Bay
Theatre and Dance Department
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd
Hayward, CA 94542
Director: Tom Hird
Phone: 510-885-3118
Email: nina.haft@csueastbay.edu
http://class.csueastbay.edu/theatre
Degrees offered: BA, minor, concentration
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, world dance
Admissions deadline: May 8
Audition required: no
California State University, Fullerton
Theatre and Dance
800 N State College Blvd
Fullerton, CA 92834
Chair: Susan Hallman
Phone: 714-278-3178
Email: gkares@fullerton.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: call
Audition required: no
California State University, Humboldt
Interdisciplinary Dance Studies
Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance
Arcata, CA 95521
Director: Sharon Butcher
Phone: 707-826-3549
Email: sgb14@humboldt.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: no
California State University, Long Beach
Dance Program
1250 Bellflower Blvd
Long Beach, CA 90840
Director: Cyrus Parker-Jeannette
Phone: 562-985-4747
Email: dance@csulb.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: November 30
Audition required: yes
California State University, Los Angeles
Department of Theatre Arts and Dance
5151 State University Dr
KH D5104
Los Angeles, CA 90032
Chair: Lena Chao
Phone: 323-343-4110
Email: tad@calstatela.edu
www.calstatela.edu/dept/theatre_dance
Degrees offered: BA, MA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: June 15 (fall), October 1 (winter), February 1 (spring)
Audition required: no
California State University, Sacramento
Department of Theatre and Dance
6000 J St
Sacramento, CA 95819
Chair: Linda Goodrich
Phone: 916-278-6368
Email: theatre.dance@csus.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, production, tap
Admissions deadline: November 30 (fall), August 31 (spring)
Audition required: no
California State University, San Francisco
School of Music and Dance
1600 Holloway Ave, CA140
San Francisco, CA 94132
Director: Susan Whipp
Phone: 415-338-1431
Email: swhipp@sfsu.edu
http://musicdance.sfsu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance medicine, ethnology, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: November 30 (fall), August 31 (spring)
Audition required: no
California State University, San Jose
School of Music and Dance
One Washington Sq
San Jose, CA 95192-0095
Dance coordinator: Fred Mathews
Phone: 408-924-5041
Email: fmathews@email.sjsu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: November 30 (fall), August 31 (spring)
Audition required: no
California State University, Sonoma
Center for Performing Arts
1801 E Cotati Ave
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Director: Nancy Lyons
Phone: 707-664-2474
Email: shelley.martin@sonoma .edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
California University of Pennsylvania
Department of Theatre and Dance
250 University Ave Box 16
California, PA 15419
Chair: Michael Slavin
Phone: 724-938-4220
Email: slavin@cup.edu
www.cup.edu/liberalarts/theatre/index.jsp
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, musical theater
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Calvin College
Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Dance and Sport Department
3195 Knight Way SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Director: Ellen Van't Hof
Phone: 616-526-6031
Email: evanthof@calvin.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling until August 1 (fall), December 15 (spring)
Audition required: no
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Drama
The Acting/Music Theater
Purnell Center for the Arts
5000 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Head: Barbara MacKenzie-Wood
Phone: 412-268-5750
Email: jenc@andrew.cmu.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, jazz, musical theater, tap
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: yes
Catawba College
Department of Theatre Arts
2300 W Innes St
Salisbury, NC 28144
Chair: Woody Hood
Phone: 704-637-4440
Email: wbhood@catawba.edu
www.catawba.edu/academic/theatrearts
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, musical theater
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Cecil Community College
Performing Arts
Elkton Station
107 Railroad Ave, Rm 114
Elkton, MD 21901
Director: Janaea Rose Lyn
Phone: 410-287-6060 x207
Email: jlyn@cecil.edu
Degree offered: AA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern
Admissions deadline: August 25
Audition required: no
Centenary College of Louisiana
Department of Theatre and Dance
PO Box 4118
Shreveport, LA 71134-1188
Director: Don Hooper
Phone: 318-869-5077
Email: gfolmer@centenary.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: January 15 (early), February 15
Audition required: no
Central Piedmont Community College
Dance Department
CPCC-PO Box 35009
Charlotte, NC 28204
Chair: Craig Bove
Phone: 704-330-6882
Email: katharyn.horne@cpcc.edu
Degree offered: AFA
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Cerritos College
Dance Department
11110 Alondra Blvd
Norwalk, CA 90650
Chair: Janet Sanderson
Phone: 562-860-2451 x2872
Email: jsanderson@cerritos.edu
Degree offered: AA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance appreciation, dance digital technology, dance history, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, notation, Pilates, tap, variations, world dance, yoga
Admissions deadline: mid-July
Audition required: no
Chapman University
Department of Dance
1 University Dr
Orange, CA 92866
Director: Dale Merrill
Phone: 714-997-6815
Email: dance@chapman.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance technology, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 30
Audition required: yes
City University of New York, Hunter College
Dance Program
695 Park Ave
New York, NY 10021
Director: Jana Feinman
Phone: 212-772-5012
Email: jfeinman@hunter.cuny.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: March 15
Audition required: no
Cleveland State University
Dance Program
2121 Euclid Ave, PE 214
Cleveland, OH 44115
Director: Lynn Deering
Phone: 216-687-4883
Email: dance@csuohio.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Coker College
Department of Dance, Music, and Theater
300 E College Ave
Hartsville, SC 29550
Director: Wanda Ebright
Phone: 843-383-8000
Email: webright@coker.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap
Audition required: no
College of the Holy Cross
Department of Theatre
1 College St
Worcester, MA 01610
Director: Kaela San Lee
Phone: 508-793-3490
Email: jmader@holycross.edu
www.holycross.edu/departments/theatre/website
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15 (fall), November 1 (spring)
Audition required: no
College of Marin
Performing Arts, Dance Department
835 College Ave
Kentfield Campus
Kentfield, CA 94904
Director: David Jones
Phone: 415-485-9315
www.marin.cc.edu/departments/dance
Degree offered: AA
Courses include: ballet
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
The College of William and Mary
Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance
PO Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187
Director: Joan Gavaler
Phone: 757-221-2785
Email: jsgava@wm.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, modern
Admissions deadline: November 1 (early), January 1
Audition required: no
Colorado College
Drama and Dance Department
14 E Cache La Poudre St
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Chair: Tom Lindblade
Phone: 719-389-6637
Email: tlindblade@coloradocollege.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, digital dance media, flamenco, hip hop, jazz, kinesiology, modern, music for dance, t'ai chi, world dance, yoga
Admissions deadline: November 15 (early 1), January 1 (early 2), January 15
Audition required: no
Colorado State University
School of the Arts
Music, Theatre, and Dance
349 General Services Bldg
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Director: Jane Slusarski-Harris
Phone: 970-491-4294
Email: j.slusarski-harris@colostate.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Columbia College
Department of Dance
1301 Columbia College Dr
Columbia, SC 29203
Director: Wrenn Cook
Phone: 803-786-3778
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Columbia College Chicago
Dance Center
1306 S Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL 60605
Director: Bonnie Brooks
Phone: 312-344-8300
Email: csabin@colum.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor, concentration
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: May 1
Audition required: no
Community College of Baltimore County
Department of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts
7201 Rossville Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21237
Program coordinator: Christian Richards
Phone: 410-780-6347
Email: crichards@ccbcmd.edu
Degrees offered: AA, AFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Connecticut College
Dance Department
270 Mohegan Ave
New London, CT 06320
Director: David Dorfman
Phone: 860-447-1911
Email: dance@conncoll.edu
http://dance.conncoll.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: December 15
Audition required: no
Converse College
Department of Theatre and Dance
580 E Main St
Spartanburg, SC 29302
Director: Jennifer Spearman
Phone: 864-596-9149
Email: jennifer.spearman@converse.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film & Dance
430 College Ave
Ithaca, NY 14850
Director: Allen Fogelsanger
Phone: 607-254-2700
Email: danceprogram@cornell.edu
www.arts.cornell.edu/theatrearts
Degrees offered: BA, concentration
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, modern
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: no
Cornish College of the Arts
Dance Department
1000 Lenora St
Seattle, WA 98121
Director: Kathryn Daniels
Phone: 800-726-ARTS
Email: admissions@cornish.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 2
Audition required: yes
Creighton University
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
2500 California Plaza
Lied Center
Omaha, NE 68178
Director: Lisa Carter
Phone: 402-280-3047
Email: lcarter@creighton.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Dean College
School of Dance
99 Main St
Franklin, MA 02038
Director: Joan Palladino
Phone: 508-541-1607
Email: jpalladino@dean.edu
Degrees offered: AA, BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: ongoing
Audition required: no
Denison University
Department of Dance
Granville, OH 43023
Director: Gill Wright Miller
Phone: 740-587-6712
Email: millerg@denison.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: no
DeSales University
Performing and Fine Arts Department
Dance Program
2755 Station Ave
Center Valley, PA 18034
Director: Timothy Cowart
Phone: 610-282-1100 x1663
Email: dance@desales.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 2
Audition required: yes
Dominican University
Department of Music and Performing Arts
Dance Program
Angelico Hall
50 Acacia Ave
San Rafael, CA 94901
Program director: Marina Hotchkiss
Phone: 415-863-3040 x281
Email: marina@linesballet.org
www.dominican.edu/academics/artssciences/artshum/performingarts
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, ethnic dance, modern
Admissions deadline: December 10
Audition required: yes
Drexel University
Department of Performing Arts
3141 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Director: Cecelia Fitzgibbon
Phone: 215-895-4914
Email: danceprogram@drexel.edu
Degree offered: BS
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: February 2
Audition required: yes
Duke University
Dance Program
Box 90686
Durham, NC 27708
Director: Barbara Dickinson
Phone: 919-660-3353
Email: dance@duke.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 2
Audition required: no
East Carolina University
School of Theatre and Dance
Greenville, NC 27858
Director: John Shearin
Phone: 252-328-6390
Email: weeksp@ecu.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, certificate
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: March 15 (freshman), April 15 (transfers)
Audition required: yes
Eastern Michigan University
Department of Music and Dance
N 101 Alexander, EMU
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Dance program coordinator: Joanna McNamara
Phone: 734-487-4380
Degrees offered: BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern, performance, pre-dance therapy, studio management
Admissions deadline: none
Audition required: yes
East Stroudsburg University
Department of Movement Activities & Lifetime Fitness
Dance Program
Koehler Fieldhouse
East Stroudsburg, PA 18301
Director: Elizabeth Gibbons
Phone: 570-422-3331
Email: lgibbons@po-box.esu.edu
Degree offered: concentration
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, modern, pedagogy, yoga
Admissions deadline: May 1 (fall), December 1 (spring)
Audition required: no
El Camino College
Dance Department
16007 Crenshaw Blvd
Torrance, CA 90506
Directors: Bernice Boseman, Daniel Berney and Pamela Santelman
Phone: 310-660-3715
Email: dberney@elcamino.edu
Degree offered: AA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, jazz, Latin social dance, modern, tap, traditional dance forms
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Emory University
Dance Program
1602 Fishburne Dr
Atlanta, GA 30322
Director: Sally Radell
Phone: 404-727-7266
Email: dance@emory.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: no
Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
Dance Program
65 W 11 St
New York, NY 10011
Director: Jaime Santora Kopec
Phone: 212-229-5100 x2267
Email: santoraj@newschool.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: yes
Florida School of the Arts
Dance Program
5001 St. Johns Ave
Palatka, FL 32177
Director: Lee Dando
Phone: 386-312-4300
Email: leedando@sjrcc.edu
Degrees offered: AA, AS
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, kinesiology, modern, musical theater, partnering, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: June 15
Audition required: yes
Florida State University
Department of Dance
202 Montgomery Hall
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Interim Directors: Russell Sandifer and Patty Phillips
Phone: 850-644-1024
Email: pphillip@dancefsu.edu
http://dance.fsu.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, MA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance technology, modern
Admissions deadline: March
Audition required: yes
Friends University
Division of Fine Arts
Ballet Department
2100 W University St
Wichita, KS 67213
Director: Stan Rogers
Phone: 316-295-5848
Email: rogersst@friends.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, character, choreography, dance history
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
George Mason University
Department of Dance
MS 3D4
4400 University Dr
Fairfax, VA 22030
Director: Elizabeth Price
Phone: 703-993-1114
Email: dance@gmu.edu
http://dance.gmu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
The George Washington University
The Department of Theatre and Dance
800 21st St NW, Ste 227
Washington, DC 20052
Chair: Leslie Jacobson
Phone: 202-994-8072
Email: onstage@gwu.edu
http://theatredance.gwu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: November 10 (early), January 10, October 1 (spring)
Audition required: no
Goucher College
Dance Department
1021 Dulaney Valley Rd
Towson, MD 21204
Director: Amanda Thom Woodson
Phone: 410-337-6390
Email: sthomson@goucher.edu
Degrees offered: BA, MA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 2
Audition required: no
Greenfield Community College
Dance Department
1 College Dr
Greenfield, MA 01301
Director: Sharon Arslanian
Phone: 413-775-1262
Email: arslanian@gcc.mass.edu
Degrees offered: AA, concentration
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: ongoing
Audition required: no
Hamilton College
Theatre and Dance Department
198 College Hill Rd
Clinton, NY 13323
Director: Carole Bellini-Sharp
Phone: 315-859-4057
Email: cbellini@hamilton.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, modern
Admissions deadline: Jan. 15
Audition required: no
The Hartford Conservatory
Diploma Program
834 Asylum Ave
Hartford, CT 06105
Dean: Susan Murphy
Phone: 860-246-2588 x12
Email: susanmurphy@hartfordconservatory.org
Degree offered: accredited artist diploma
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Dance Department
Winn Seeley Gym
Geneva, NY 14456
Director: Cynthia Williams
Phone: 315-781-3495
www.hws.edu/academics/programs/mandm/dance.asp
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: February 2
Audition required: no
Hofstra University
Department of Drama and Dance
118 Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549
Director: Lance Westergard
Phone: 516-463-5444
Email: drmlzw@hofstra.edu
www.hofstra.edu/academics/hclas/dd
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Hope College
Department of Dance
168 E 13th St
Holland, MI 49423
Chair: Linda Graham
Phone: 616-395-7700
Email: graham@hope.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor, education certificate
Courses include: ballet, dance therapy, jazz, Labanotation, modern, tap, sacred dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music
Department of Ballet
1201 E Third St
Bloomington, IN 47405
Director: Michael Vernon
Phone: 812-855-6787
Email: ballet@indiana.edu
www.music.indiana.edu/department/ballet
Degree offered: BS
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance movement therapy, jazz, modern, pedagogy
Audition required: yes
Indian River Community College
Dance/Fine Arts Department
3209 Virginia Ave
Ft. Pierce, FL 34981
Director: Molly Magee
Phone: 772-462-7692
Email: mmagee@ircc.edu
Degree offered: AA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, conditioning, modern, performance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Iona College
Department of Fine and Performing Arts
Dance Program
715 North Avenue
New Rochelle, NY 10801
Chair: Catherine Mapp
Phone: 914-633-2629
Email: cmapp@iona.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, dance appreciation, dance outreach, choreography, composition, modern, jazz, performance, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 15
Audition required: no
Ithaca College
Department of Theatre Arts
953 Danby Rd
201 Dillingham Center
Ithaca, NY 14850
Director: Lee Byron
Phone: 607-274-3345
Email: theatrearts@ithaca.edu
http://departments.ithaca.edu/theatre
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap
Admissions deadline: February 1 (fall), November 1 (spring)
Audition required: no
Jacksonville University
Department of Theatre & Dance
2800 University Blvd N
Jacksonville, FL 32211
Chair: Brian Palmer
Phone: 904-256-7373
Email: bpalmer@ju.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
James Madison University
School of Theatre and Dance
MSC 2304, Room 349
Godwin Hall
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Director: Bill Buck
Phone: 540-568-6511
Email: oharast@jmu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
Johnson State College
Fine & Performing Arts, Dance
337 College Hill Rd
Johnson, VT 05656
Director: Maris Wolff
Phone: 800-635-2356
Email: maris.wolff@jsc.vsc.edu
Degrees offered: education certificate, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, folk dance, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
The Juilliard School
Dance Division
60 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023
Director: Lawrence Rhodes
Phone: 212-799-5000
Email: admissions@julliard.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern
Admissions deadline: December 1
Audition required: yes
Kansas State University
Dance Program
129 Nichols Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506
Director: Charlie Griffin
Phone: 785-532-6875
Email: charlieg@ksu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: 1 month prior to semester
Audition required: no
Keene State College
Theatre and Dance Department
229 Main St
Keene, NH 03435
Director: Marcia Murdock
Phone: 603-358-2162
Email: mmurdock@keene.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Kent State University
Dance Division
266 MACC Annex
Kent, OH 44242
Director: Andrea Shearer
Phone: 330-672-2069
Email: dance@kent.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: March 15
Audition required: yes
Kilgore College
Department of Music and Dance
1100 Broadway
Kilgore, TX 75662
Director: Jeanne Johnson
Phone: 903-983-8633
Email: cbeckman@kilgore.edu
Degree offered: AA
Courses include: ballet, dance appreciation, choreography, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Lake Erie College
Fine Arts Department
391 W Washington St
Painesville, OH 44077
Chair: John Huston
Phone: 440-375-7000
Email: decato@lec.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern, Pilates
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Lamar University
Department of Music, Theatre and Dance
PO Box 10044
Beaumont, TX 77710
Director: Dr. Harry Bulow
Phone: 409-880-8912
Email: hrlihs@my.lamar.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BS, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
1 University Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11201
New Media Art and Performance
Director: Ninotchka Bennahum
Phone: 718-780-4038
Email: bennahum@liu.edu
Degree offered: MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Dance Department
Director: Dana Hash-Campbell
Phone: 718-488-1051
Email: dana.hash@liu.edu
Degrees offered: BS, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling (both)
Audition required: yes (both)
Long Island University, CW Post Campus
Department of Theatre, Film & Dance
720 Northern Blvd.
Brookville, NY 11548
Chair: Cara Gargano
Phone: 516-299-2353
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: African, ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, kinesiology, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Loyola Marymount University
Department of Theatre Arts & Dance
1 LMU Dr, MS 3846
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Director: Judith M. Scalin
Phone: 310-338-5233
Email: jscalin@lmu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: yes
Marygrove College
Dance Department
8425 W McNichols Rd
Detroit, MI 48221
Director: Jordeen Ivanov-Ericson
Phone: 313-927-1307
Email: jivanov@marygrove.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor, certificate, concentration
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Marymount Manhattan College
Dance Department
221 E 71st St
New York, NY 10021
Director: Katie Langan
Phone: 212-516-0610
Email: dance@mmm.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Mercyhurst College
Dance Department
501 E 38th St
Eerie, PA 16546
Director: Tauna Hunter
Phone: 814-824-2202
Email: thunter@mercyhurst.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Millikin University
Department of Theatre and Dance
1184 W Main St
Decatur, IL 62522
Director: Laura Ledford
Phone: 217-424-6282
Email: lledford@millikin.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Mills College
Dance Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
Director: Judith Rosenburg
Phone: 510-430-2175
Email: dance@mills.edu
Degrees offered: BA, MA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: no
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Department of Theatre and Dance
201 Performing Arts Center
Mankato, MN 56563
Director: Juli Kerr-Berry
Phone: 507-389-2118
Email: paul.hustoles@mnsu.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance conditioning, dance history, improvisation, jazz, modern, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: none
Audition required: no
Minnesota State University, Moorhead
Theatre Arts Department
Theatre Dance Program
1104 7th Ave S
Moorhead, MN 56563
Director: Craig Ellingson
Phone: 218-477-2126
Email: ellingson@mnstate.edu
Degrees offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, musical theater
Admissions deadline: August 1 (fall), December 1 (spring)
Audition required: no
Montclair State University
Department of Theatre and Dance
Life Hall 126-J
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
Director: Lori Katterhenry
Phone: 973-655-7080
Email: katterhenrl@mail.montclair.edu/a>
Degrees offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, musical theater
Admissions deadline: May 1
Audition required: yes
Montgomery College
Department of Speech, Dance, & Theatre
51 Mannakee St
Rockville, MD 20850
Dance program coordinator: Gail Minor-Smith
Phone: 240-567-5250
Email: gail.minor-smith@montgomery college.edu/a>
www.montgomerycollege.edu/departments/spdnth
Degree offered: AA
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Moorpark College
Dance Department
7075 Campus Rd
Moorpark, CA 93021
Director: Dolly Kessner
Phone: 805-378-1408
Email: dkessner@vcccd.edu
Degrees offered: AA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, performance, hip hop, jazz, modern, swing, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Mt. Holyoke College
Department of Dance
50 College St
South Hadley, MA 01075
Chair: Charles Flachs
Phone: 413-538-2195
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern, traditional dance
Admissions deadline: November 15 (early), January 1 (early), January 15
Audition required: no
Muhlenberg College
Department of Theatre and Dance
2400 Chew St
Allentown, PA 18104
Director: Karen Dearborn
Phone: 484-664-3335
Email: grobman@muhlenberg.edu
www.muhlenberg.edu/depts/theatre
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 15
Audition required: no
New World School of the Arts
Dance Division
300 NE Second Ave
Miami, FL 33132
Director: Daniel Lewis
Phone: 305-237-3341
Email: dlewis@mdc.edu
Degree offered: AA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: May 1
Audition required: yes
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Department of Dance
111 2nd Ave., 3rd Fl
New York, NY 10003
Director: Linda Tarnay
Phone: 212-998-2980
http://dance.tisch.nyu.edu/page/home.html
Degree offered: BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, modern
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: yes
North Carolina School of the Arts
School of Dance
1533 S Main St
Winston-Salem, NC 27127
Director: Susan McCullough
Phone: 336-770-3208
Email: briggb@ncarts.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: July 1
Audition required: yes
Northrn Kentucky University
Department of Theatre and Dance
FA-205
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Chair: Ken Jones
Phone: 859-572-6362
Email: jonesk@nku.edu
Degree offered: BFA. minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: August 1 (fall), December 1 (spring
Audition required: yes
Northwestern University
Theater Department
Dance Program
Marjorie Ward Marshall
Dance Center
10 Arts Circle Dr
Evanston, IL 60208
Director: Joseph Mills
Phone: 847-491-3147
Email: grobman@muhlenberg.edu
www.communication.norhtwestern.edu/dance
Degree offered: BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: November 1 (early), January 1
Audition required: no
Oakland University
Department of Music, Theatre and Dance
211 Varner Hall
Rochester, MI 48309
Director: Gregory Patterson
Phone: 248-370-2030
Email: mtd@moakland.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: August 1
Audition required: yes
Oberlin College
Theater and Dance Program
30 N Professor St
Oberlin, OH 44074
Chair: Paul Moser
Phone: 440-775-8152
Email: janice.sanborn@oberlin.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: November 15 (early), January 2
Audition required: no
Ohio Northern University
Department of Communication Arts
525 S Main St
Ada, OH 45810
Director: Laurie Bell
Phone: 419-772-2049
Email: l-bell@onu.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
The Ohio State University
Department of Dance
1813 N High St
O22 Sullivant Hall
Columbus, OH 43210
Director: Susan Petry
Phone: 614-292-7977
Email: dance@osu.edu
Degree offered: BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: yes
Oklahoma City University
Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Arts Management
2501 N Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
Dean: John Bedford
Phone: 505-208-5322
Email: ado@okcu.edu
Degree offered: BS, MFA
Courses include: ballet, jazz, musical theater, tap
Audition required: yes
Old Dominion University
Dance Program
Diehn 154
Norfolk, VA 23529
Director: Marilyn Marloff
Phone: 757-683-4354
Email: mmarloff@odu.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap
Audition required: no
Oral Roberts University
Dance Department
7777 S Lewis Ave
Tulsa, OK 74171
Director: Amy Roark-McIntosh
Phone: 918-495-6870
Email: lholland@oru.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap
Otterbein College
Department of Theatre and Dance
One Otterbein College
Westerville, OH 43081
Chair: John Stefano
Phone: 614-823-1657
Email: dlee@otterbein.edu
Degree offered: minor, concentration
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap
Admissions deadline: March 1
Audition required: yes
Palm Beach Atlantic University
Dance Department
901 Flagler Dr
West Palm Beach, FL 33416
Director: Kathleen Klein
Phone: 561-803-2428
Email: kathleen_klein@pba.edu
www.pba.edu/academic/somafa/dance
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: March 15
Audition required: yes
Plymouth State University
Music, Theatre and Dance Department
17 High St. MSC 37
Plymouth, NH 03264
Director: John Wiegers
Phone: 603-535-2713
Email: jwiegers@plymouth.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Point Park University
Conservatory of Performing Arts
Department of Dance
201 Wood St
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Director: Susan Stowe
Phone: 412-392-3450
Email: jmcgoldrick@pointpark.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, minor, concentration
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap,
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Pomona College
Dance Program
210 E 2nd St.
Claremont, CA 91711
Director: Laurie Cameron
Phone: 909-621-8176
Email: lcameron@pomona.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: no
Princeton University
The Program in Theater & Dance
185 Nassau St
Princeton, NJ 08544
Head of Dance: Ze'eva Cohen
Phone: 609-258-8562
www.princeton.edu/~visarts/.html
Degree offered: certificate
Courses include: ballet (not for credit), choreography, modern, repertoire
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: no
Radford University
Department of Dance
PO Box 6966
Radford, VA 24142
Director: Margaret Devaney
Phone: 540-831-5162
Email: mdevaney@radford.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Raritan Valley Community College
Visual & Performing Arts
Rte 28 and Lamington Rd
North Branch, NJ 08876
Director: Loretta Di Bianca Fois
Phone: 908-526-1200 x8494
Email: lfois@raritanval.edu
Degree offered: AFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Roger Williams University
Dance and Performance Studies
1 Old Ferry Road
Bristol, RI 02809
Director: Kelli Wicke Davis
Phone: 401-254-3624
Email: kwickedavis@rwu.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
Sam Houston State University
Department of Theatre and Dance
Dance Program
PO Box 2269
Huntsville, TX 77341
Director: Jennifer Pontius
Phone: 936-294-1875
Email: dnc_jkp@shsu.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, pedagogy,
Admissions deadline: August 1
Audition required: yes
Santa Clara University
Theatre and Dance Department
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
Director: Aldo Billingslea
Phone: 408-554-5578
Email: abillingslea@scu.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: no
Santa Fe Community College
Fine Arts Department
6401 Richards Ave
Santa Fe, NM 87508
Director: Siegfried Halus
Phone: 505-428-1740
Email: shalus@sfccnmu.edu
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, hip hop, jazz, kinesiology, modern, musical theater, partnering, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Sarah Lawrence College
Dance Program
1 Mead Way
Bronxville, NY 10708
Director: Sara Rudner
Phone: 914-337-0700
Email: slcadmit@slc.edu
Degree offered: BA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: no
Scottsdale Community College
Dance Department
9000 E Chaparral Rd
Scottsdale, AZ 85256
Director: Angela Rosenkrans
Phone: 480-423-6600
Email: a.rosenkrans@sscmail.maricopa.edu
Degree offered: AA, education certificate
Courses include: ballet, dance technology, dance theory, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
Scripps College
Dance Department
1030 Columbia Ave
Claremont, CA 91711
Director: Ronnie Brosterman
Phone: 909-607-2934
Email: dance@scrippscollege.edu
www.scrippscollege.edu/dept/dance
Degree offered: BA, minor. concentration, other
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: no
Shenandoah University
Dance Division
1460 University Dr
Winchester, VA 22601
Director: Erica Helm
Phone: 1-800-432-2266
Email: msobczyn@su.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, MA, MS, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Skidmore College
Dance Department
815 N Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Director: Mary DiSanto-Rose
Phone: 518-580-5360
Email: mdisanto@skidmore.edu
www.skidmore.edu/academics/pe/dance/index.html
Degree offered: BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: no
Slippery Rock University
Dance Department
110 Morrow Field House
Slippery Rock, PA 16057
Director: Nora Ambrosio
Phone: 724-738-2036
Email: nora.ambrosio@sru.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
Smith University
Department of Dance
Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts
Berenson 1
Northampton, MA 01063
Director: Susan Waltner
Phone: 413-585-3232
Email: prist@email.smith.edu
Degree offered: BA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: yes
Southern Methodist University
Division of Dance
PO Box 750356
Dallas, TX 75275
Director: Myra Woodruff
Phone: 214-768-2718
Email: smudance@smu.edu
Degree offered: BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Springfield College
Visual and Performing Arts
263 Alden St
Springfield, MA 01109
Director: Cynthia Nazzaro Noble
Phone: 413-748-3158
Email: cnoble@spfldcol.edu
Degree offered: BA, BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
St. Olaf College
Dance Department
1520 St. Olaf Ave
Northfield, MN 55057
Director: Janice Roberts
Phone: 507-786-3248
Email: jroberts@stolaf.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 15
Audition required: no
Stanford University
Drama Department
Dance Division
375 Santa Teresa St
Stanford, CA 94305
Director: Tony Kramer
Phone: 650-723-1234
Email: sapple@stanford.edu
Degree offered: concentration
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: November 1 (early), December 15
Audition required: no
State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
Dance Department
85 George St
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Director: Patricia Mayer
Phone: 732-932-8497
Email: afrancis@rci.rutgers.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: December 15
Audition required: yes
State University of New York, Brockport
Department of Dance
350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420
Director: Darwin Prioleau
Phone: 585-395-2153
Email: dance@brockport.edu
Degree offered: BA, BS, BFA, MA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
State University of New York, Fredonia
Department of Theatre and Dance
212 Rockefeller Arts Center
Fredonia, NY 14063
Chair: Stephen Rees
Dance Coordinator: Helen Myers
Phone: 716-673-3596
Email: stephen.rees@fredonia.edu
www.fredonia.edu/department/theatre
Degree offered: BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
State University of New York, Potsdam
Department of Dance and Drama
44 Pierrepont Ave
Potsdam, NY 13676
Chair: Robin Collen
Phone: 315-267-2234
Email: collenrl@potsdam.edu
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
State University of New York, Purchase
Conservatory of Dance
735 Anderson Hill Rd
Purchase, NY 10577
Director: Carol Shiffman
Phone: 914-251-6800
Email: dance@purchase.edu
Degree offered: BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, modern
Admissions deadline: March 1
Audition required: yes
Stephens College
Department of Dance
1200 E Broadway
Columbia, MO 65215
Director: Mary Rotella
Phone: 800-876-7207
Email: apply@stephens.edu
Degree offered: BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: none
Audition required: yes
Swarthmore College
Department of Music and Dance
Dance Program
500 College Ave
Swarthmore, PA 19081
Director: Sharon E. Friedler
Phone: 610-328-8233
Email: bdunnin1@swarthmore.edu
www.swarthmore.edu/humanities/dance
Degree offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: no
Texas Christian University
School for Classical & Contemporary Dance
TCU Box 297910
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Director: Ellen Page Shelton
Phone: 817-257-7615
Email: dance@tcu.edu
Degree offered: BFA, MFA, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: February 15
Audition required: yes
Texas Woman's University
Department of Dance
PO Box 425708
Denton, TX 76204
Director: Penelope Hanstein
Phone: 940-898-2085
Email: dance@twu.edu
Degree offered: BA, MA, MFA, Ph.D
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
Towson University
Department of Dance
8000 York Rd
Towson, MD 21252
Phone: 410-704-2760
Email: mdemeo@towson.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
Trinity College
Theater and Dance Department
300 Summit St
Hartford, CT 06106-3100
Director: Lesley Farlow
Phone: 860-297-5122
Email: pkennedy@trincoll.edu
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: no
Tulane University
Newcomb College Dance Program
215 McWilliams Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
Director: Alice Pascal Escher
Phone: 504-314-7761
Email: dance@tulane.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, jazz, modern, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: no
University at Buffalo
Theatre & Dance
285 Alumni Arena
Buffalo, NY 14260
Director: Robert Knopf
Phone: 716-645-6898
Email: td-theatredance@buffalo.edu
www.cas.buffalo.edu/depts/theatredance
Degree offered: BA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: yes
University of Akron
Dance Program
Guzzetta Hall
Akron, OH 44325-2502
Interim Director: Neil Sapienza
Phone: 330-972-7948
Email: nbs@uakron.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance technology, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: no
University of Alabama
Department of Theatre and Dance
Box 870239 115 Rowand-Johnson Hall
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Director: Cornelius Carter
Phone: 205-348-5283
Degree offered: BA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, musical theater, world dance
Audition required: yes
The University of Arizona
School of Dance
PO Box 210093
Tucson, AZ 85721
Director: Jory Hancock
Phone: 520-621-4698
Email: dnielsen@email.arizona.edu
http://web.cfAArizona.edu/dance
Degree offered: BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
University of California, Davis
Department of Theatre and Dance
222 Wright Hall
One Shields Ave
Davis, CA 95616
Chair: Peter Lichtenfels
Phone: 530-752-0888
Email: plichtenfels@ucdavis.edu
Degree offered: BA, MFA, PhD
Courses include: ballet, choreography
Admissions deadline: November 30
Audition required: no
University of California, Irvine
Dance Department
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
300 MAB
Irvine, CA 92697
Chair: Alan Terricciano
Phone: 949-824-7284
http://dance.arts.uci.edu/~theatre
Degree offered: BA, BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, kinesiology, modern, musical theater, partnering, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: November 30
Audition required: yes
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of World Arts and Cultures
120 Westwood Plaza
Ste 150
Box 951608
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Chair: Angelia Leung
Phone: 310-825-3951
Email: wacinfo@arts.ucla.edu
Degree offered: BA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, world dancce
Admissions deadline: November 30 (fall), August 17 (winter)
Audition required: no
University of California, Riverside
Dance Department
121 Arts Bldg,
Mail Box 109
Riverside, CA 92521
Director: Wendy Rogers
Phone: 951-827-3343
Email: mike.atienza@ucr.edu
Degree offered: BA, MFA, PhD
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance technology, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: November 7
Audition required: no
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Dramatic Art and Division of Dance
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Director: Jerry Pearson
Phone: 805-893-3241
Email: adiaz@theaterdance.ucsb.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, modern
Admissions deadline: November 30
Audition required: yes
University of California, Santa Cruz
Theater Arts Department
Dance Program
1156 High St
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Chair: Mark Franko
Phone: 831-459-4075
Email: theatre@ucsc.edu
Degree offered: BA, certificate
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: November 30
Audition required: no
University of Central Oklahoma
Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Arts
100 N Unviersity Dr
Box 86
Edmond, OK 73034
Director: Jamie Jacobson
Phone: 405-974-5231
Email: jjacobson@ucok.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
University of Cincinnati
College Conservatory of Music
Dance Division
PO Box 210003
Cincinnati, OH 45221
Director: Shellie Cash
Phone: 513-556-2700
Email: ccadmis@uc.edu
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy
University of Colorado, Boulder
Theatre and Dance
261 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0261
Director: Toby Hankin
Phone: 303-492-5037
Email: thtrdnce@colorado.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, world dance
University of Florida
School of Theatre and Dance
PO Box 115900
Gainesville, FL 32611
Director: Rusti Brandman
Phone: 352-273-0504
Email: drdance@ufl.edu
www.arts.ufl.edu/theatreanddance
Degree offered: BFA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 7
Audition required: yes
University of Georgia
Department of Dance
Dance Bldg
Athens, GA 30602
Director: Lisa Fusillo
Phone: 706-542-4415
Email: ugadance@uga.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, minor, certificate
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: yes
University of Hartford
The Hartt School
Dance Division
200 Bloomingfield Ave
West Hartford, CT 06117
Director: Dennis Price
Phone: 860-768-4465
Email: harttadmin@hartford.edu
Degree offered: BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: January 1
Audition required: yes
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Theatre and Dance
1770 East West Rd
Honolulu, HI 96822
Director: Greg Lizenbery
Phone: 808-956-7622
Email: uhmdance@hawaii.edu
Degree offered: BA. BFA, MA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: no
University of Idaho
Center for Dance
PO Box 442401
Moscow, ID 83843
Director: Greg Halloran
Phone: 208-885-7921
Email: halloran@uidaho.edu
Degree offered: BS, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: May 1
Audition required: yes
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Department of Dance
907 1/2 W Nevada St
Urbana, IL 61801
Director: Jan Erkert
Phone: 217-333-1010
Email: dance@uiuc.edu
Degree offered: BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap. world dance
Admissions deadline: January 8
Audition required: yes
University of Iowa
Department of Dance
E114 Halsey Hall
Iowa City, IA 2242
Director: Alan Sener
Phone: 319-335-2228
Email: dance.uiowa.edu/~dance
Degree offered: BA, BFA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap. world dance
Admissions deadline: April 1
Audition required: no
University of Kansas
Department of Music and Dance
1530 Naismith Dr
Murphy Hall, Rm 460
Lawrence, KS 66045
Director: Jerel Hilding
Phone: 785-864-4264
Email: kudance@ku.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA, minor,
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance science, jazz, modern, musical theater, world dance
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: no
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Department of Performing Arts
104 University Circle
Lafayette, LA 70504
Director: Nyalls Hartman
Phone: 337-482-6357
Email: klj8719@louisiana.edu
http://arts.louisiana.edu/degree/pfar
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
University of Maine
Division of Theatre/Dance
Class of 1944 Hall, Rm 208
Orono, ME 04469
Chair: Marcia Douglas
Phone: 207-581-1846
Email: ann.ross@umit.maine.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
University of Maryland
Department of Dance
1920 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
College Park, MD 20742
Director: Charles Rutherford
Phone: 301-405-3180
Email: dancedept@umail.umd.edu
Degree offered: BA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance technology, jazz, modern, tap
Audition required: no
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Department of Music and Dance
30 Eastman Ln, 11 Totman
Amherst, MA 01003
Director: Billbob Brown
Phone: 413-545-6064
Email: mllauren@dance.umass.edu
Degree offered: BA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern
Audition required: no
University of Michigan
Dance Department
1310 University Ct
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Director: Sara Grosky
Phone: 734-763-5460
Email: saramin@umich.edu
Degree offered: BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance technology, modern, world dance
Admissions deadline: December 1
Audition required: yes
University of Missouri, Kansas City
Conservatory of Music and Dance
4949 Cherry St
Kansas City, MO 64110
Division chair: Mary Pat Henry
Phone: 816-235-2900
Email: henrym@umkc.edu
http://conservatory.umkc.edu/dance.asp
Degree offered: BFA
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
University of Montana
Department of Drama/Dance
PARTV 194
32 Campus Drive
Missoula, MT 59812
Dance program head: Karen Kaufmann
Phone: 406-243-4481
Email: umtheatredance@umontana.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
School of Music, Dance Department
209 Mabel Lee Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588
Director: Susan Levine
Phone: 402-472-6845
Email: stribby2@unl.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern
Admissions deadline: January 15
Audition required: yes
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Department of Dance
4505 Maryland Pkwy
Box 455010
Las Vegas, NV 89154
Chair: Louis Kavouras
Phone: 702-895-3827
Email: sandra.obrien@unlv.edu
http://dance.unlv.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, jazz, modern
Admissions deadline: August 27
Audition required: no
University of New Hampshire
Department of Theatre & Dance
Paul Creative Arts Center
30 College Rd
Durham, NH 03824
Director: C. Larry Robertson
Phone: 603-862-2919
Email: c.peabody@unh.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, hip hop, jazz, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: February 1 (fall), October 15 (spring)
Audition required: no
University of New Mexico
Department of Theatre and Dance
MSC04 2570, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Department head: Donna Jewell
Phone: 505-277-3660
Email: dance@unm.edu
http://dance.unm.edu
Degrees offered: BA, MA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: June 15
Audition required: no
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Department of Dance and Theatre
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223
Director: Bruce Auerbach
Phone: 704-687-2482
Email: vharri16@uncc.edu
Degrees offered: BA, MA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: October 15
Audition required: no
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Department of Dance
323 HHP Building
PO Box 26170
Greensboro, NC 27402
Director: Jan Van Dyke
Phone: 336-334-5570
Email: dance@uncg.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance technology, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
University of Northern Colorado
School of Theatre Arts and Dance
Frasier Hall 105 Box 49
Greely, CO 80639
Director: David Grapes
Phone: 970-351-2991
www.arts.unco.edu/theatredance
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, jazz, modern, musical theater, tap
Admissions deadline: July 1
Audition required: yes
University of Northern Iowa
School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services
Wellness/Recreation Center 109
Cedar Falls, IA 50614
Director: Christopher Edginton
Phone: 319-273-6866
Email: cindy.herndon@uni.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance notation, jazz, kinesiology, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
University of North Texas
Department of Dance and Theatre
PO Box 310607
Denton, TX 76203
Director: Lorenzo Garcia
Phone: 940-565-2211
Email: data@unt.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: June 15
Audition required: yes
University of Oklahoma
School of Dance
Oval Rm 1000
560 Parrington
Norman, OK 73019
Director: Mary Margaret Holt
Phone: 405-325-4051
Email: rdmoore@ou.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA, concentration
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: June 1
Audition required: yes
University of Oregon
Department of Dance
1214 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
Director: Jenifer Craig
Phone: 541-346-3386
Email: mmoser@oregon.uoregon.edu
http://dance.uoregon.edu/
Degrees offered: BA, BS, MA, MFA, MS, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, hip hop, jazz, modern, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: April 1
Audition required: no
University of Richmond
Department of Theatre and Dance
Modlin Center for the Arts
Richmond, VA 23173
Director: Myra Daleng
Phone: 804-289-8314
Email: mdaleng@richmond.edu
http://theatre.richmond.edu/dance/
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, improvisation, jazz, modern, tap
Admissions deadline: November 15 (early), January 15 (fall)
Audition required: no
University of San Francisco
Performing Arts Department
2130 Fulton St
San Francisco, CA 94117
Director: Kathi Gallagher
Phone: 415-422-3888
Email: gallagher@usfca.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, hip hop, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: no
University of South Carolina
Department of Theatre and Dance
Blatt PE, 1300 Wheat St
Columbia, SC 29208
Director: Susan Anderson
Phone: 803-777-5636
Email: dance@sc.edu
Degrees offered: BA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, gyro-kenesis, jazz, men's class, modern, partnering, pedagogy, Pilates, pointe, variations
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
The University of Southern Mississippi
Department of Theatre and Dance
118 College Dr, Ste 5052
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
Director: Stacy Reischman
Phone: 601-266-4161
Email: stacy.reischman@usm.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, modern, pedagogy
Admissions deadline: April 1
Audition required: yes
University of South Florida
School of Theatre and Dance
4202 E Fowler Ave
FAD 204
Tampa, FL 33620
Director: Marc Powers
Phone: 813-974-3867
Email: bfrank@arts.usf.edu
http://dance.arts.usf.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance science, modern, pedagogy, world dance
Admissions deadline: April 15
Audition required: yes
University of Tampa
Department of Speech, Theater and Dance
401 W Kennedy Blvd
Tampa, FL 33606
Director: Susan Taylor Lennon
Phone: 813-253-3333 x3745
Email: staylor.lennon@ut.edu
Degree offered: minor
Courses include: ballet, choreography, hip hop, jazz, Latin dance, modern, partnering, pedagogy, tap
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: no
University of Texas, Austin
Department of Theatre and Dance
1 University Station D3900
Austin, TX 78712
Director: Robert N. Schmidt
Phone: 512-471-5793
Email: inquiry@curly.cc.utexas.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, modern
Admissions deadline: February 1
Audition required: yes
University of Texas, El Paso
Department of Theatre, Dance and Film
500 W University Ave
Fox Fine Arts Center Rm 371
El Paso, TX 79968
Program Advisor: Myron Nadel
Phone: 915-747-5146
Email: theatredancefilm@utep.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, education certificate, minor
Courses include: ballet, modern, musical theater
Audition required: no
The University of the Arts
School of Dance
320 S Broad St
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Director: Susan B. Glazer
Phone: 800-616-ARTS
Email: admissions@uarts.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, certificate
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, jazz, modern, musical theater, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Admissions deadline: rolling
Audition required: yes
University of Utah
Department of Ballet
330 S 1500 E Rm 112
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Director: Carol Iwasaki
Phone: 801-581-8231
Email: info@ballet.utah.edu
Degrees offered: BFA, MFA
Courses include: ballet, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, pedagogy, tap, world dance
Audition required: yes
University of Washington
Dance Program
Box 351150
Seattle, WA 98195
Director: Elizabeth Cooper
Phone: 206-543-9843
Email: uwdance@u.washington.edu
www.depts.washington.edu/uwdance
Degrees offered: BA, MFA, minor
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, jazz, modern, pedagogy
Audition required: no
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dance Program
Lathrop Hall
Madison, WI 53706
Director: Jin-Wen Yu
Phone: 608-262-1691
Email: uwdance@education.wisc.edu
Degrees offered: BS, BFA, minor, certificate, concentration
Courses include: ballet, ballroom, choreography, dance history, dance movement therapy, dance science, dance technology, jazz, modern, world dance
Audition required: yes
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Department of Dance
PO Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Director: Janet Lilly
Phone: 414-229-2571
Email: danceinfo@uwm.edu
Degrees offered: BA, BFA, MFA, certificate, concen