Dance
    Quick Facts
  • Start your dance career earlier with
    Stephens’ three-year, two-summer B.F.A. program
  • Participate in Stephens Summer Dance, an intensive six-week workshop that concludes with a fully produced public performance
  • Learn from expert faculty and internationally known guest artists
Department Information
Welcome | Degrees | Curriculum | Application Requirements | Faculty | Guest Artists | Performance Opportunities | Summer Dance | Performing Arts Season | Video Clip: Juggling Guest Artist | Professional Conservatory Training Program

Students learn from experienced faculty and guest artists in ballet, modern, jazz, musical theatre, tap and world dance forms. At Stephens, dancers also study other aspects of performance, including lighting for dance, kinesiology, music and dance pedagogy. Special courses, such as repertory or acting for dance, complement training. Students have numerous opportunities to perform. After three semesters of choreographic training, students professional stage a production or original works.

Admission is by audition only.

Offered by the School of Performing Arts at Stephens, the Professional Conservatory Training Program is a two-year, two-summer non-degree program that emphasizes performance-based studio work. Participants choose an emphasis from acting, dance, musical theatre or technical theatre.

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Summer Dance dance