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Providing a foundation on which to build a career as a performer, choreographer or teacher, our core curriculum in dance emphasizes developing performance skills through the study of technique, and fostering creative abilities through the study of choreography.
Explore the Performance and Choreography Program“Ohio University prepares its students for multiple possibilities once you graduate. There is an emphasis on choreography, for instance, that may open up opportunities that a performance based school wouldn’t offer. Also, our alumni work in different areas of the field such as dance movement therapy, owning a company, or heading up the Bessie Awards!”
"In dance, process is pushed because a final product is just that, an end product—to the audience it’s just one thing to watch. There is much more that goes on behind the scenes that is much more important. Everything I’ve learned is because we are taught to put the process over the product."
“Here you will be put to the test. But prior to the task you’re equipped with the knowledge from our professors. I will leave knowing myself through my art—my own way of moving—and I don’t think I would have found that anywhere else.”
Featured Events
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View All Dance News2019 Athens International Film + Video Festival is April 8-14!
March 21, 2019This year’s festival presents 267 films, from 58 countries, selected from a pool of 2,300 submissions.
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View All Dance News9th Global Arts and Music Festival
March 7, 2019Celebrating Global Arts, Education and Diversity at Ohio University, APRIL 1-5, 2019. A week overflowing with dance, film, music, theatre, visual arts, and world languages!
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View All Dance NewsSchool of Dance presents the 2019 Winter Dance Concert
February 18, 2019Celebrating 50 years of artistic inquiry and creative excellence, the School of Dance at Ohio University presents the annual Winter Dance Concert, February 22–23 in the Mem Aud.
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View All Dance NewsIn The News: Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts
January 31, 2019The Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts [CoArts], devoted to community development through arts engagement and collaboration, was recently featured in the Daily Sentinel (Pomeroy, OH)
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