Rooted in contemporary techniques, improvisation, and collaboration, our dance program focuses on choreographic skill and movement performance.
Dance
For more than 40 years, the Sweet Briar College dance program has striven to promote active learning, develop the creative, collaborative and critical skills essential for life and livelihood while preparing students majoring in performing arts and dance for careers in related fields.
The program empowers students to appreciate dance and its achievements of the past through a balance of embodied study, original research and critical response.
In this program, students will:
- Achieve sound technical skills in contemporary movement forms through regular embodied practice
- Become familiar with movement practices and habits that promote lifelong physical well-being
- Increase self-confidence through formal and informal performance opportunities
- Speak and write about dance persuasively and with cogency, develop creative thinking skills through the generation of original choreography
- Become effective and integrous leaders through collaborative projects and teaching opportunities