Program Recognition
•Bullet: Career paths named by the department span dance-adjacent fields beyond performance: choreographer, dance company artistic director/manager, dance historian, dance therapist, dance medicine, arts administration, studio owner, and college/university educator
•Bullet: Graduates have gone on to dance professionally with bkSOUL, San Diego Dance Theater, Patricia Rincon Dance Collective, Somebodies Dance Theater, and Disco Riot
Training
•Bullet: Coursework spans Modern, Hip Hop, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Global Dance Traditions, Choreography, Improvisation, Dance History, and Movement for Wellness
•Bullet: Adjunct faculty specialize by style: Terri Shipman (Modern, Ballet), Akayaa Atule (West African), Marcos Duran (Movement for Wellness, Pilates, Improvisation), Norma Ovalle and Alejandro Barajas (Latin), Keomi Tarver (Hip Hop)
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Fall Faculty and Guest Artists production and a Spring Student Choreographed production, both on the Saville Theatre stage
•Bullet: Program welcomes beginning through advanced dancers preparing for BFA/BA transfer or professional work
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: Common university majors graduates pursue include Dance, Dance and Performance Studies, Kinesiology, Liberal Studies, Physical Education, and Theater Arts
•Bullet: 26.5-unit major allows room for general education and electives toward the 60-unit AA
•Bullet: Graduates have continued dance study at UCSD, UCSB, UCI, SDSU, CSULB, SFSU, St. Mary's College, London Contemporary Dance School, and Ecole de Danse Contemporaine de Montreal
