Dance

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OFFICE: Music 112
TELEPHONE: 619-594-6031 / FAX: 619-594-1692
E-MAIL: music.dance@sdsu.edu

Undergraduate Information

The Major

Dance serves to enhance the lives of all peoples and provides a challenging avenue of creative expression for those who wish to pursue its serious study. This program promotes dance as a communicative and expressive medium uniquely effective in the conveyance of meaning, emotion, and cultural values. Dance is a rigorous and specialized area of the performing arts, demanding a high level of physical preparation as well as a thorough understanding of aesthetics.

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance provides professional preparation for dance majors in choreography, performance, scholarship, and teaching; more specifically, as choreographers and dancers with professional companies, teachers in community and recreation programs, schools and colleges, movement educators, and candidates for graduate work in dance scholarship.

The Bachelor of Arts in Dance is a liberal arts degree for those students who seek an understanding of and an intimate orientation to the discipline of dance without professional goals. This degree enables students to obtain this broad understanding.

A minor in somatic studies is available in addition to the dance minor for those students whose primary interest is in another department.

As members of the University Dance Company, students perform in faculty choreography and repertory works set by distinguished guest artists in periodic workshops and residencies. Each B.F.A. student also stages original work in a senior concert. Dance activity courses provided in the school offer experiences for the general student population in contemporary modern and ballet.

Entrance and Progression Requirements

In addition to CSU and SDSU requirements, incoming students requesting B.F.A. and B.A. programs in Dance will be required to be admitted through an audition process. Contact School of Music and Dance office or Dance Program website for details.

The BFA degree is an impacted program. To be considered for admittance to the BFA degree program in Dance, students must meet the following criteria:

1. Completion of dance lower-division required courses with a minimum 3.5 GPA.

2. Successfully evaluated interview with Dance Faculty

3. Portfolio including Dance and Writing samples, revealing sufficient quality and future potential to warrant entry into the BFA degree program

4. Fulfillment of ushering and crewing requirements

The BA degree is an impacted program. To be considered for admittance to the BA degree program in Dance, students must meet the following criteria:

1. Completion of dance lower-division required courses with a minimum 3.0 GPA.

2. Successfully evaluated interview with Dance Faculty

3. Fulfillment of ushering and crewing requirements

Impacted Program

The dance major is an impacted program. To be admitted to the dance major, students must meet the following criteria:

1. Complete preparation for the major;
2. Complete a minimum of 60 transferable semester units;
3. Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.

To complete the major, students must fulfill the degree requirements for the major described in the catalog in effect at the time they are accepted into the premajor at SDSU (assuming continuous enrollment).

Faculty

Director: Delgado, Kevin M., Associate Professor of Music (B.M., San Diego State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles)

Adviser: Suhadolnik, Andrea J., Lecturer of Dance (B.A., San Diego State University; M.Ed., National University)

Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty:

Humphrey, Jessica R., Professor of Dance (B.F.A., California State University, Long Beach; M.F.A., University of Utah)

Seiters, Leslie A., Professor of Dance (M.F.A., The Ohio State University)

Oh, Chuyuh, Associate Professor of Dance (B.A., Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea; M.A., Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin)

Additional Faculty:

Alter, Joseph W., Professor of Dance, Emeritus (B.A., Hunter College; M.F.A., The Ohio State University)

Lecturers: 

Atule, Akayaa, Dance

Corrales, Joseph B., B.A., Dance

Glasgow, Melissa, M.F.A., Musical Theatre

Irey, Kathryn J., Dance

Massey, Anna Brown, M.F.A., Dance

Somphanh, Khamla, B.A., Dance

Suhadolnik, Andrea J., M.Ed., Dance

Torres Blanco, Henry, B.A. Dance

Emeritus Faculty: 

Nunn, Melissa, M.A., 1979-2010,  Professor of Dance

Sandback, Patricia R., M.F.A., 1974-2010, Professor of Dance

Willis, George C., M.F.A., 1967-2001, Associate Professor of Dance

Programs

• Dance Minor
• Dance, B.A.
• Dance, B.F.A.
• Dance, Dance Education Concentration, B.F.A.
• Embodied Education and Somatics Certificate
• Somatic Studies Minor

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