The MFA in Dance is a 60-credit hour program designed to take 3 years to complete (excluding summers). Students generally take 10 credit hours per semester, leaving sufficient time for extracurricular creative and research work. The program is designed to accommodate a variety of students, from the practicing professional to the recent BA/BFA graduate. Our MFA develops students' creativity, physicality, self-awareness, performance, pedagogical, and scholarly skills in equal measure. Our primary hope is to enable a deepening of your artistic voice--to put what is distinctive about you in conversation with the world.
Dance Program Mission Statement
We encourage the pursuit of one’s choreographic voice, embodied scholarship, and pedagogical excellence. Our program scaffolds entrepreneurial approaches to art-making based in rigor, social justice, curiosity, and versatility. Through our diverse, “choose-your-own adventure” style curriculum, we support the vital cultivation of self-awareness alongside a nuanced appreciation of one’s positionality within a global conversation.
Overview
The MFA in Dance program does not have a low residency option at this time, but we do offer a modified program for currently working professionals. All enrolled students are expected to reside regionally and be present for in-person activites in accordance with COVID-19 safety guidelines.
Curriculum
The primary core MFA curriculum focuses on the development of the individual artistic voice in performance, choreography, teaching, research and writing. The presentation of new creative work is bolstered, augmented and enriched by the study of theory, history and other artists.
Program Requirements
Prerequisites & Required Courses Plan of Study
Application for Fall 2022
Required Qualifications
MFA in Dance Application Assistantships & Teaching Application
Points of Contact
Request Information from the Graduate School Video Conference Information Session Sign-Up