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A low drumbeat pulses as 13 intensely focused students, arranged in two lines, try to keep up with its rhythm. Arms lash out; hands sculpt the air; legs drop into [...]

After overhearing a dancer talking about getting her phone disconnected, Jane Baron decided to make sure she could earn a living with her dance degree. 'I never wanted to worry [...]

Domingo Estrada, Jr., didn't plan on majoring in dance. He was thinking about an engineering degree when a high school guidance counselor, who knew he was an avid hip hop [...]

You can visit colleges and take campus tours, but it still may be hard to imagine what being a dance major is really like. A precollege summer workshop can help [...]

Your first dancing job after college can be a bit of a culture shock. But what if you already had firsthand knowledge of what professional life is like? College dance [...]

Studying abroad can be one of the greatest adventures of a dancer's college career. Learning about the history and dances of other cultures--and simply experiencing life in another country--can help [...]

What is the future of dance? Time will tell, but it's pretty clear that technology will play a large role. To prepare dancers, colleges have started incorporating more production and [...]

Deciding between going to college and starting your career early is one of the hardest decisions young dancers face. But what if you didn't have to choose? Some schools have [...]

Ballroom in college has often been thought of as an extracurricular activity. But at a handful of universities, you can get serious training while pursuing your dance degree. These three [...]

Lately, aerial dance has become a major genre--take a look at productions of Cirque du Soleil or on Broadway, and you'll see dancers high overhead, engulfed in swaths of fabric [...]

Singing. Dancing. Acting. For college-bound students hoping to become the next triple threat, it's often hard to find a dance program that nurtures all three--and few musical theater programs offer [...]

Dance science is one of the fastest-growing areas of interest for college dance majors, and one that doesn't necessarily mean you have to sacrifice time in the studio. A second [...]

Last winter, Juliana Rodzinski performed George Balanchine's Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux after being coached by one of the choreographer's muses, Merrill Ashley. But Rodzinski isn't in a professional ballet company, [...]

Future dance scholars, take note: the Temple University dance department announced the launch of a new Master of Arts in Dance program that will begin in September 2013. The research-centered [...]

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS now offers a bachelors degree in dance production and design headed by composer/musician Beth Mehocic and union designer Peter Jakubowski. The degree includes technique training, [...]