Master of Fine Arts in Dance with an Emphasis in Choreography and Performance
(12 semester course credits, 8 at the graduate level)

Prerequisites:

Elementary-level ballet technique upon admission. Advanced-level modern dance technique must also be achieved by the beginning of the second year.

DNC 133 Dance Kinesiology (1)

DNC 157 Music for the Dancer (1)
Entering graduate students who have never taken a music for dance course must take this course. Students who have had a music for dance course must take the rhythmic exemption exam. If they don not pass it, they must take DNC 213 Rhythmic Practicum (.25).

DNC 159 Dance Production (.25)

DNC 181 Solo Choreography (.5)

Required:

Choreography (2.5 course credits):

DNC 282 Group Choreography (.5)

DNC 285 Sources and Inventions (.5)

DNC 286 Contemporary Choreography: Stylistic and Contextual Investigations (1)

DNC 297 Ideas about Space (.5) 

History/Theory (2 course credits):

DNC 265 Modern to Contemporary Performance: History, Theory, and Practice (1) and
DNC 288 Critical Acts: Dancing Strategies, Theories, and Contexts (1)

Performance (1.5 course credits):

DNC 255A/B Repertory Dance Company (.5; .5) three consecutive semesters, .5 course credit per semester

Choreography and performance students must participate in other student choreographic projects and concerts to satisfy the performance requirement.

Technique (2.5 course credits; all students must take four semesters of modern technique, five classes per week. Students must also take two semesters of ballet.)  Select from the following:

DNC 103 Intermediate Ballet (.25)

DNC 107 Intermediate Modern Dance (.25–.5)

DNC 109 Advanced Modern Dance (.25–5)

Thesis (2 course credits):

DNC 250A/B/C Thesis Research Project/Thesis Writing/Concert (.5; .5; 1) (spring/fall/spring sequence) 

And select one or more graduate electives or upper division courses from the following list for a total of 1.5 credits. (Electives or seminars in other fine arts departments, with approval from dance faculty, may apply.):

DNC 113 Somatic Arts (.25)

DNC 159 Dance Production (.25)

DNC 174 Ballet History from the 16th through the 19th Centuries (.5–1)

DNC 176 Dance Cultures (1)

DNC 233 Choreographic Project (.5)

DNC 243 Independent Project (.5–1)

DNC 253 Theory of Teaching Dance (.5)

DNC 254 Laboratory Teaching of Dance (.5)

DNC 291 Early Modern Women: Western Dance Pioneers (.5–1)

DNC 292 The Diaghilev Ballet Russes and the Making of Modern Culture (.5–1)

DNC 293 Contemporary Issues in Choreography (.5–1)

DNC 294 New Genre: Interdisciplinary Collaborations (.5–1)

DNC 296 Live and Media Performance (.5–1)

DNC 298 Dance Theater in Traditional and Contemporary Performing Arts (.5–1)

Note: Also see the other undergraduate courses in which graduate students may enroll listed in the Undergraduate Catalog.