Training
•Bullet: Partnership with Fort Wayne Ballet Conservatory of Dance
•Bullet: Ballet-primary curriculum with modern dance, dance history, and pedagogy coursework
•Bullet: Karen Gibbons-Brown, Fort Wayne Ballet artistic director, teaches alongside Bolshoi Ballet Academy graduate Eleonora Pokhitonova Hartung and ABT-certified ballet mistress Tracy Tritz
•Bullet: Training at the Auer Center for Arts and Culture, 2.5 miles from campus
Performance & Productions
•Bullet: Perform with Fort Wayne Ballet in its biannual Nutcracker and annual spring production
•Bullet: Talent scholarships available to dance majors based on audition performance in technique, musicality, and artistic quality
Degree Flexibility
•Bullet: Two-year Associate of Arts: 60 total credits (36 major/core, 24 general education)
•Bullet: Major coursework: Ballet I-II, Modern Dance I-II, Dance History and Criticism I-II, and Methods and Materials in Dance Education
•Bullet: No senior capstone — the program culminates in a sophomore review/jury, consistent with the department's two-year or four-year degree pathway design
