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Mission
The mission of the Florida State University Department of Dance is to provide work leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts, the Master of Fine Arts, and the Master of Arts degrees in dance in an environment conducive to the highest caliber of dance training, practice, and scholarship. Our vision of dance in higher education encourages fluidity between the living art form and scholarly investigation, and dynamic interaction between the training of dancers and the development of scholars. This approach is intended to foster cultivation of the individual’s creative, performance, and scholarly voice through exposure to diverse practical and philosophical approaches to dance studies and the development of critical thought processes. University As an academic unit within the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance, the Department of Dance is part of a strong community of artistic endeavor which includes Departments of Studio Art, Art History, Art Education, and Interior Design. Furthermore, FSU’s attentive dedication to the arts can be seen in its nationally recognized Colleges of Music and Motion Picture, Television, and Recording Arts. A cooperative spirit exists amongst this community, which encourages and provides for distinct opportunities for collaboration. Even the sciences have provided contribution with dance majors performing in productions inspired by literature, anthropology, and physics. For many years now, the Fine Arts has found a nurturing and welcome home at Florida State University. History Established over 65 years ago, and offering a professional dance major for more than 40 of those years, FSU dance continues to be a pioneer and leader among college dance programs. The Department has a reputation as a center for the creation, reconstruction and production of outstanding dance repertory, ranging from traditional classical choreography to contemporary original works. The core mission of the Department of Dance is to combine exceptional artistic training with a liberal arts education. This dual dedication to art and learning has yielded graduates who are dancers, teachers, scholars, and leaders in companies, schools universities, and art organizations in the United States and abroad. In addition to classes for dance majors, approximately 350 students are instructed each semester through the general studies in dance classes open to community dancers. The completion of a 17 million dollar renovation in 2004 has transformed Montgomery Hall into a state of the art dance facility with seven studio spaces, a conditioning studio, costume shop, centers for music and technology, a black box theatre, as well as the fully equipped proscenium Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre which seats 380. Three major productions are presented annually as well as the “Master Thesis Concert Series” and Dance Repertory Theatre (DRT) a performing and touring unit open to dance majors. The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) is housed in Montgomery Hall. The mission of this unique and visionary center is to funnel creative activity capturing the interest in the dance field and encouraging the creation, dissemination and documentation of new knowledge in dance and choreography. FSU dance majors have the opportunity to observe professional artists as they engage in projects while in residence at MANCC. Bylaws FSU Dance Bylaws 
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