Program Overview
Ohio State University's BFA Dance program provides comprehensive dance education, focusing on technical proficiency, diverse curriculum, and artistic development. Students receive individualized attention, cohort support, and mentorship, preparing them for careers as performers, choreographers, educators, and more in the dance industry and beyond.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Dance program at Ohio State University offers students the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA). Students will receive comprehensive dance education with a focus on the dancing experience. The curriculum is designed to build the whole artist. The BFA dance program has several
program objectives:
- Develop a sound technical proficiency in the breadth of contemporary dance techniques
- Apply technical proficiency in a variety of contexts.
- Gain skills and knowledge in dance's diverse curriculum including choreography, history, education, movement analysis, creative technologies, and performance.
- Give and receive well-considered verbal discussion and feedback regarding creative and scholarly assignments and projects
- Be able to produce written analysis of their own work and the work of others in historical and contemporary settings.
Outline:
Coursework
in the BFA dance program includes the following areas:
- Movement Practice
- Performance
- Choreography
- History, Theory and Literature
- Analysis and Production/Creative Technology.
Teaching:
The Dance Department offers small class sizes and students receive individualized attention from both faculty and visiting artists. The program fosters cohort development through first and last-year seminars. Faculty mentorship and personalized education begin early in the program, integrating with students' unique educational experiences.
Careers:
Possible Career Paths
Upon completion of the dance program, graduates are well-equipped for a variety of career paths.
- Performers
- Choreographers
- Creative Technology Artists
- Educators
- Production and Lighting Designers
- Arts Administrators
- Health Science Professionals
- Somatic Practitioners
- Movement Analysts
- Historians
- Entrepreneurs
