2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog
Dance
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Department Chair: Dr. Colleen T. Dunagan
Department Office: Dance Center S-131
Telephone / FAX: (562) 985‑4747 / (562) 985-7896
Faculty: Tsiambwom Akuchu, Zakiya Atkinson, Rebecca Bryant, Betsy Cooper, Colleen Dunagan, Keith Johnson, Lorin Johnson, Rebecca Lemme, Danzel Thompson-Stout, Andrew Vaca, Brooke Winder
Undergraduate Advisor: Kirsten Sumpter
Graduate Advisor MFA: Rebecca Bryant
Graduate Advisor, MA: Colleen T. Dunagan
Administrative Coordinators: Sylvia Rodriguez-Scholz
Career Possibilities
Dancer • Choreographer • Dance Educator • Dance Company Director • Dance-Movement Therapist • Dance Studio Director • Arts Administration • Physical Therapist • Pilates Instructor • Athletic Trainer
(Some of these, and other careers, require additional education or experience. For more information, consult with the Chair of the Dance Department and see the CSULB Careers Website.)
Introduction
The Department of Dance offers a variety of movement practices that include technique, improvisation, choreography, and Pilates. Dance majors study modern/contemporary dance forms, ballet, jazz, street and club dances, and traditional and contemporary African dance forms; tap may be taken as an elective. Dance majors learn the essentials of dance concert production, and music as it relates to dance, and draw connections between theory and practice by investigating dance through historical, pedagogical, scientific, and cultural lenses. The department also offers numerous GE and activity courses for non-majors, including introduction to dance courses and beginning through intermediate levels of ballet, modern, jazz, street and club dances, tap, and dances of Africa and the African diaspora. Performances, master classes and guest artist residencies enhance the creative vibrancy of the department, campus and community.
All new undergraduate students (BA, pre-BFA, pre-BS in Dance Science) enroll in a series of foundation courses taken in the first year of study. Entrance into the BFA degree is by audition when students have completed specific coursework and have achieved required levels of competency. Entrance to the BS in Dance Science is contingent on the successful completion of major specific requirements.
Entrance to the major in dance is by audition. Applicants may download audition information from the department website or may contact the Department of Dance Office. Non-major classes are open to all students and do not require any audition; some 200-300 level courses may require a technique screening process to assure that students are enrolled in the appropriate level.
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