Training
•Bullet: Ballet Ensemble is required every fall and spring semester, with a minimum of 5 credit hours of performance study each semester until the graduation examination is completed
•Bullet: 18 credit hours of ballet major courses: conditioning for the dancer’s body, contemporary ballet or theatre dance, ballet pedagogy, choreography workshop, and ballet history
•Bullet: Performance study includes an entrance audition, first-year jury, upper-division examination, and graduation examination
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Ballet majors participate in Ballet Ensemble every fall and spring and perform in four annual productions with live music on the Musical Arts Center stage
•Bullet: The program develops dancers through traditional and contemporary repertoire with faculty who have professional-company experience
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: A 27-credit-hour outside field, subject to approval of the director of undergraduate studies and the advisor of the outside field department or program, lets dancers build a secondary academic specialization
•Bullet: The degree totals 120 credit hours, including 10 credit hours of other music courses (music, society and culture, secondary piano, and electives) plus music or non-music electives
