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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Dance

Associate Professor Patty Harrington Delaney, Division Chair

Professors: Shelley C. Berg, Danny Buraczeski, Myra Woodruff
Associate Professors: Patty Harrington Delaney, Christopher Dolder, Leslie Peck
Artist in Residence: Brandi Coleman
Visiting Artists in Residence: Dwight Rhoden, Desmond Richardson
Senior Lecturer: Anne Westwick
Adjunct Lecturers: Chris Ham, Christine Nelson, Morgan Palmer. Musicians: Dick Abrahamson, Jamal Mohamed, Martin Morgan, Mina Polevoy, Natalia Sawal, Edward Smith, D.J. Sullivan, Janeen Vestal

General Information

The Division of Dance offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in dance performance. Students receive professional dance training within the context of a comprehensive liberal arts education. The goal is to develop the disciplined, versatile dance artist through a balanced study of ballet, modern dance and jazz dance techniques, complemented and reinforced by a broad range of theoretical studies and performance opportunities. The program provides an atmosphere in which students are nurtured and stimulated in their quest for artistic achievement, technical mastery and scholarly excellence. Undergraduate majors study dance as a performing art with the intent to become practicing artists. The core of the dance curriculum is designed with this goal in mind. The combination of performance and liberal arts education courses serves to develop the articulate dancer.

The Division of Dance has four dance studios, three of which are located in the Owen Arts Center. Studios are equipped with sprung floors, digital sound and projection  systems, grand pianos, ballet barres and mirrors. The Charles S. Sharp Performing Arts Studio doubles as a performing space and is also equipped with a tech booth and a theatrical lighting system. Live accompaniment is provided for all ballet and modern technique classes.

Admission, Audition and Financial Aid

Dance is a dual admit program: in addition to meeting University  admission criteria, all first-year and transfer applicants must participate in a performance audition, which is the principal factor in determining eligibility to major or minor in dance. In the performance audition, applicants are observed in a ballet class, modern dance sequences and a jazz dance combination. After this process, selected candidates are asked to perform a prepared solo that is 90 seconds in length. Applicants should bring a brief résumé, a wallet-sized photograph, music for the solo (tablet, smartphone or DVD) and appropriate dancewear and footwear (the modern dance portion of audition will be danced barefoot). Campus and regional dance auditions occur between October and March. Auditions are scheduled at www.smu.edu/danceadmission.

Performance

All dance majors are required to perform and choreograph as an integral part of their performance studies. Performance opportunities include concerts featuring masterworks and contemporary works in the genres of  ballet, modern and jazz presented on the main stage in the Bob Hope Theatre, concerts featuring student choreography in noontime Brown Bag performances in the Owen Arts Center lobby and mainstage concerts in the Bob Hope Theatre and performances in venues in the Dallas Arts District including the Meadows at the Winspear concerts presented in collaboration with the Meadows Symphony. Other opportunities include special events, outreach programs and interdisciplinary projects within and beyond the Meadows community.

Programs

    Major(s)Minor(s)

    Courses

      Dance

      Dance courses open to non-dance majors are offered on a periodic basis. The remaining dance courses are restricted to dance majors unless otherwise indicated in the course descriptions.

      Dance Courses Open to Nonmajors
        DANC 1301, 1303, 1305
      Dance Courses for Dance Performance Majors
      Performance Technique Ballet: DANC 1018, 1311, 2311, 3016, 3018, 3211, 3216, 3218, 3311, 4004, 4104, 4211, 4311
      Jazz Dance: DANC 1231, 2231, 3231, 4231
      Modern Dance: DANC 1321, 2321, 3221, 3321, 4221
      Advanced Performance Technique DANC 3211, 3216, 3218, 3221, 3231, 3311, 3321, 4104, 4211, 4221, 4231, 4311
      Ensemble Performance DANC 3080
      Composition DANC 3341, 3342, 3343
      Theoretical Studies DANC 1326, 3363, 4190, 4290, 4390, 4373, 4374
      Applied Studies DANC 1144, 1151, 1152, 2160, 2170, 3354, 3366, 4091, 4191, 4291, 4391