Theatre and Dance Program | University of Vermont Catalogue

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Theatre

The Theatre Program provides a breadth and depth of experience so students gain skills to understand the various facets of theatre, while at the same time learning the vital and transferable attributes of critical analysis, problem solving, and belief in one’s own contributions, creativity, and ideas.

The Theatre Program provides students with a combination of theory and practice in understanding theatre as an art form that reflects the human condition. Students who major or minor in theatre are required to take core courses that provide an historical and critical foundation as well as fundamentals courses in areas of acting and design. A wide offering of additional courses are available that reflect theatre as social practice, personal expression, and creative collaboration.

Theatre faculty are working professionals as well as scholars who contribute to the field of theatre in the areas of acting, directing, playwriting, theatre design, and criticism. Students who study theatre have access to faculty through small workshop classes, independent study projects, honors theses, coaching for performance assignments, and production work.

Dance

The Dance Program offers a major and a minor. Both are designed for students who wish to pursue dance studies within a liberal arts context and are open to both students coming to UVM with prior dance training and those who discover dance in college. Inclusivity is a top priority.

UVM Dance combines concentrated applied and experiential practice in composition and performance with the study of dance history, theory, and culture. With an emphasis on physical/creative action and engaged inquiry, it is the goal of the Dance Program to facilitate rich and meaningful interaction amongst faculty, guest, and student artists/scholars. The Dance Program also seeks strong alliances with other art forms and related disciplines on campus. A main emphasis of the program is on student creative work; students have many opportunities to create and present original work in on campus productions and at regional dance conferences.

Dance faculty at UVM are active artists and experienced educators who offer a wide range of courses in different technical, stylistic, somatic, and theoretical approaches to dance studies. Both the major and the minor are designed with flexibility for students to include broad exposure to dance studies; the major culminates with a clear and focused investigation of an advanced topic and/or project.

Dance Courses

DNCE 1010. Topics In: First-Year Seminar. 3 Credits.

Intensive first-year seminar focused on specific themes and/or disciplinary perspectives. Emphasis on developing critical reading and writing skills, substantive revision, information literacy, and analytical thinking. First-year seminars are frequently organized to meet one of the disciplinary Catamount Core requirements. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Catamount Core: AH1, WIL1.