Department of Dance

The Department of Dance celebrates creative risk taking, practical and theoretical research, scholarship, wellness, and entrepreneurship. We provide an expansive approach to the relevance of dance within cultures and communities that offers a combination of world-class dance training within a leading research university. We provide diverse perspectives, and integrate practice and theory to prepare dance artists for resilient and multi-faceted careers in our rapidly evolving fields. We emphasize technique, performance, research, and composition to prepare our students to become performers, choreographers, scholars, and professors in higher education. Collaborations with students in other departments within the School of Music, Theatre & Dance are strongly encouraged and supported by robust funding opportunities that can lead to advancements in the field and facilitate life-long professional relationships. Dance students at the University of Michigan employ their training to pursue their work in a variety of areas. Generations of UM dance alumni are actively working as performers, choreographers, and directors in both concert and commercial dance, throughout North America and abroad.