As one of the top dance programs in the nation, FSU Dance is known for:

• Prestigious, award winning resident faculty and staff.
• Exciting guest artists, teachers and choreographers.
• The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography. Our nation’s only choreographic research center within a university setting.
• Extraordinary dance and performance technology facilities.
• FSU in NYC! Spend a fall semester immersed in the New York dance experience while you continue your classes. Includes an Internship!
• Limited access. We accept the best students and give them our full attention and mentorship.
• Our students practice what they learn in the classroom. Over fifteen fully produced performances a year, as well as numerous informal performance opportunities.
• Summer study abroad programs in Valencia, Spain and Paris, France.
• An innovative MA program in American Dance Studies that includes social and vernacular dance as well as concert forms.

Recent highlights:

• FSU Dance in Dance Magazine. August - 2012 edition.
• Jawole Zollar recieves FSU's highest faculty honor, the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Award for 2011-12
• Gerri Houlihan (Faculty) & Dr. James Frazier (MFA 1994) named as Co-Deans of the American Dance Festival School
• MANCC receives prestigious Mellon grant.
• Jawole Zollar and Urban Bush Women represent the United States as cultural envoys to South America.
• Dr. Tom Welsh's book Conditioning for Dancers
• Tricia Young (Faculty): appointed to Editorial Board, University Press of Florida
• Jawole Zollar (Faculty): named 2008 United States Artist Fellow and 2009 Guggenheim Fellow.