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The Dance degree provides students with the skills needed to prepare them for positions in the professional dance performance world, graduate study, or related careers, in which creativity, communication skills, and collaborative abilities are essential.
 

Excellent Performance and Creative Opportunities

The dance program produces two mainstage dance concerts each year. The Fall Dance Concert features primarily student choreography while the Spring Dance Concert includes more experimental faculty, student, and guest artist choreography.

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Additional performance opportunities include performances in the Fall musical, the Sechrest Art Gallery, as well as community performances organized by the student-run High Point Dance Company. Students will have the opportunity to attend and participate in various dance and theatre conferences and festivals, such as the American College Dance Association Conference.
 

A Student Focused Curriculum

A Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance from High Point University will allow a student to undertake an experiential education grounded within the liberal arts environment created at High Point University. Each dance major will complete a challenging 44 credit-hour core of physically active and thought-provoking courses, providing them with a valuable foundation in many areas of dance.

 

The Department encourages each student to choose a minor degree allowing them to explore, in greater depth, the potential field of dance where their individual passions lie. Ultimately, the Dance major combined with a minor provides students with a solid foundation in dance techniques and academics while nurturing exploration of a secondary area of study.

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Adding a minor or another major in addition to Dance allows a student to tailor their studies for a specific career trajectory. The Dance major curriculum offers an in-depth analysis of dance as art, as an expression of culture, and as a dialogue of the human condition.

The focused course work is designed:

• to foster capable, expressive, and meaningful moving artists;

• to encourage students to find and cultivate their own artistic voices by constructing, developing, and designing a final thesis project;

• to identify, engage, and employ cultural dance practices in constructing a sophisticated perspective;

• and to collaborate with other artists and their audience.