Connecticut College
Dance
New London, CT
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About the Program
Connecticut College's Department of Dance offers a Bachelor of Arts major and a minor in Dance within a liberal arts setting in New London, CT. The program pairs a strong liberal arts education with a comprehensive, demanding dance curriculum that encourages interdisciplinary exploration. Students study modern, post-modern, West African, Afro-Caribbean, ballet, hip hop, and tap technique alongside choreography, improvisation, dance history, dance writing, and music for dance, culminating in a four-level choreography sequence whose final level is a senior Capstone project.
Degrees Offered
Bachelor of Arts in Dance
Minor in Dance
Coursework
Curriculum includes movement techniques, four levels of choreography (Choreography I, Choreography II, and a senior Capstone project), improvisation, partnering, world dance, dance history, dance writing, music for dance, and dance and technology. Afro-Caribbean technique also taught (mapped to afro_cuban); yoga offered as movement practice.
Notable Faculty
- David Dorfman
- Shani Collins
- Heidi Henderson
- Lisa Race
- Rosemarie Roberts
- Rachel Boggia
- Marya Ursin
- Shawn Hove
Performance Opportunities
At least six dance productions annually through the Dance Department and student-run clubs; senior majors produce their own concert each spring; each semester a guest artist works with students in a two-week residency teaching classes and choreographing works performed in department concerts.
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