Program Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Community Dance prepares professionals to create and lead community dance projects focused on wellness, education, activism, and other initiatives. The program emphasizes the creative process as a form of collaboration and includes studio practice, theoretical investigations, dance research, and project planning. Graduates will be equipped with the skills to bring dance to diverse communities and pursue careers as community dance practitioners, arts administrators, and cultural educators.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The program in Community Dance emphasizes the creative process as a form of collaboration, through which dance can be an adaptable, inclusive, socially relevant practice. The Graduate Certificate in Community Dance prepares professionals ready to create and lead community dance projects focused on wellness, health, education, activism, or other initiatives. Courses include studio practice in dance technique and composition; theoretical, practical, and historical investigations of dance as a community form; dance research; and project planning. This program harnesses the resources of the School of Dance BFA and BA programs, which create a rich culture of studio practice and performance in which graduate students can deepen their understanding of their art form while developing professional competencies as arts administrators and leaders.
Careers:
Community dance integrates arts learning and participation into the lives of children, seniors, youth, and other populations. Graduates of the Certificate in Community Dance will understand the artistic discipline of dance as well as how to bring dance to a diverse range of communities. They will be entrepreneurial, able to create their own opportunities by developing proposals to meet the needs of organizations, schools, and community partners. Relevant career paths include community dance practitioner, arts administrator, cultural advisor/educator, director of recreational dance program, and community youth group leader.
