Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Performance opportunities in mainstage productions for both seasoned majors and first-time performers
•Bullet: Advanced seminars combining theatre and dance
Professional Development
•Bullet: Past visiting artists through the department's ongoing visiting-artist program have included 600 Highwaymen, Eiko Otake, Sister Sylvester, and Nora Chipaumire
•Bullet: Home to the historic Colorado College Summer Dance Festival (dance pioneer Hanya Holm taught here for 43 years)
Facilities
•Bullet: Two dance studios and a somatic practices studio in historic Cossitt Hall (National Register of Historic Places)
•Bullet: Rehearsal and performance space with full lighting grid
•Bullet: Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center with cutting-edge performance venues
Study Abroad
•Bullet: Regular opportunities for academic travel to New York, London, India, and Serbia
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: BA Dance Major with 11 units culminating in senior thesis
•Bullet: Four areas of study: Foundations, Creative Core, Critical Core, and Capstone
•Bullet: Explores movement as embodied knowledge, artistic expression, and cross-cultural dialogue
•Bullet: Unique Block Plan allows intensive focus on one course at a time
•Bullet: Interdisciplinary approach combining dance with theatre, film, and new media
•Bullet: Study of performances beyond the stage — social rituals, political demonstrations, and intercultural approaches
