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Program
description
The UW Dance Program offers a dance minor, a dance
major that culminates in a Bachelor of Arts degree and dance endorsement. The program also offers a Master
of Fine Arts degree program. The program serves approximately 40 undergraduate dance majors, 80 minors, 6 graduate students, and over 900 non-major students who enroll in dance courses each quarter. The Program is staffed by six full-time and one emeritus faculty, in addition to a part-time Music Director and Technical Director. The facilities include three large dance studios, an intimate 238 seat studio theatre, and the 1,200 seat Meany Theater.
Frequently asked questions
A list of questions often asked can be found here.
Mission
statement
The mission of the UW Dance Program is to educate performers, educators, arts advocates and cultural leaders. At the Program’s core lies the recognition of art as the confluence of theory, practice and creativity. With a commitment to respect the individual, the Dance Program fosters inquiry and engages the community in open-minded exchange.
Vision
- To provide undergraduate students with an excellent liberal arts education that includes the acquisition of skills, rich artistic experiences and scholastic rigor.
- To provide graduate students with the necessary experience, understanding and proficiencies to excel as dance faculty in institutions of higher learning.
- To provide faculty with the opportunity and support to pursue their scholarly and/or creative research.
- To provide a creative and inclusive learning environment in which individual voices may be heard in a spirit of thriving cooperation.
Values
- Tradition and Innovation: The Dance Program is committed to studying long-standing art works and theories, while remaining committed to innovation and new ways of understanding.
- Learning: The Dance Program is committed to nurturing an instructional environment that stretches the limits of excellence in teaching, art making and scholarship.
- Diversity and Integrity: The Dance Program is committed to promoting a responsible educational ethic that respects individual responsibility and personal growth.
- Creativity: The Dance Program is committed to fostering a fertile environment for artistic and intellectual exploration.
Click here for a printable PDF of the Dance Program fact sheet.
(Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
For more information about the Arts at the University of Washington, please visit www.artsuw.org
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Upcoming Concerts
Faculty Dance Concert
December 3-6, 2009
Meany Studio Theatre
Dance Program Links
Online Resource Reservation System
Studio Reservation Instructions
Production Homepage
Graduate School Admissions Information
Awards & Honors
Congratulations to 2009 Dance Majors Concert choreographers, David Lorence Schleiffers and Anh Nguyen, for their Outstanding Achievement in Choreography awards.
2009 Dance Program scholarship winners: David Lorence Schleiffers and Joseph Schanbeck.
Visit our Awards & Honors page for a complete listing.
Dance Program News
Dance Program Music Director, Paul Moore, in UWeek.
Dance 231 Tribute to Frankie Manning on Youtube.
Dance Program Autumn 2008 Newsletter
Chamber Dance Company Concert featured in
The Seattle Times.
Associate Professor Jen Salk and GEAR UP in University Week.
Crosscut: Modern Dance, Reconstructed
UWeek: What's old is relevant again: Dances from the '30s featured in Chamber Dance Company's 'The Shape of Dissent'
The Seattle Times: UW's Chamber Dance Co. Keeps Classics Alive
Chamber Dance Company in A&S Perspectives
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