Dance Minor

Dance Overview

The Dance Minor is offered through Clark’s Theatre Program.  The minor provides students with a technical foundation in modern and jazz techniques as well as an exposure to fundamental training in a diversity of dance forms.  Dance Minors have the opportunity to perform and choreograph throughout the year with a number of groups including Dance Society, Variant Dance, and Hip Hop Collabo. Dance Minors must choose a faculty advisor.

Minor Requirements

The minor in Dance requires six courses.  The course sequence should be chosen in consult with a theatre faculty advisor. 

       Five electives:

• TA 130 - Dance I: Modern Dance
• TA 131 - Modern Dance II: Choreography & Improvisation
• TA 132 - Modern Repertory
• TA 133 - African Inspirations: A Dance Collaboration
• TA 134 - Tap Dance
• TA 202 - Dance Composition
• TA 208 - Jazz Dance Practice and Theory

• plus a Theatre Capstone (TA 290) for a total of six courses. 

• TA 290 - Theatre Capstone

Dance Faculty

Audra Carabetta, MFA

Lynn Frederiksen, MFA

Dance Courses

• TA 130 - Dance I: Modern Dance
• TA 131 - Modern Dance II: Choreography & Improvisation
• TA 132 - Modern Repertory
• TA 133 - African Inspirations: A Dance Collaboration
• TA 134 - Tap Dance
• TA 202 - Dance Composition
• TA 208 - Jazz Dance Practice and Theory
• TA 290 - Theatre Capstone