Being on stage, backstage, and in the production booth are all essential to the FSU dance major. Coursework trains you in visual design, theatre technology, and other practical aspects of production. And you’ll have ample opportunities for performance, choreography, and production. The department schedules approximately 20 public performances each year.

Performance Opportunities include:

• Days of Dance is the annual sold-out concert series of works by students, faculty, and guests. Student choreographies are adjudicated and mentored by faculty for the final concert. Each auditioned work gets a departmental performance in a studio showing.

• Evening of Dance is the department’s major concert, showcasing ballet and contemporary dance of the highest caliber. Students have a remarkable opportunity to perform in works by distinguished resident and other choreographers, both established and avant garde.

• Dance Repertory Theatre is the department’s touring repertory company. Chosen by audition, DRT’s dancers also present a popular home concert, as well as adventurous performances for local museums, benefits, and community festivals.

• MFA thesis concerts draw on all dance majors for performers and are as individual as each graduating dancer. These concerts have launched many FSU dancers into (or back into) outstanding stage and teaching careers.


Repertory

FSU’s Department of Dance is well known for its fine record as a repertory center that both develops and reconstructs significant dance works of an incredible variety. FSU dancers have presented a panorama of established classics and new inventions, on campus and on tour. Over 75 choreographic works by artists other than our resident faculty have been performed, including: Martha Graham, Ann Carlson, Doris Humphrey, José Limon, Douglas Nielsen, George Balanchine, Doug Varone, Nijinsky, Nikolais, Shapiro and Smith, Garth Fagan, Seán Curran, Fokine, and many more.