BFA in Dance in Tempe United States | Arizona State University

Refine your dance skills while expanding your understanding of dance, its practitioners, significance, and global influence. This program fosters diverse competencies essential for thriving as a dance professional. Within the School of Music, Dance and Theatre, students flourish in an inclusive, vibrant, and culturally rich setting that nurtures their growth as creative performers, researchers, and instructors. The BFA dance curriculum prioritizes teamwork and a comprehensive approach to movement and learning, equipping students with adaptable abilities for success in the arts and beyond.

Creativity, exploration, and human connection form the program's foundational principles. These ideals permeate various academic pursuits and experimental methods, enabling students to profoundly comprehend dance as a form of investigation while connecting scholarship with community. The curriculum offers technical training across multiple styles, from Afro-Latin and contemporary ballet to hip hop, modern dance, and somatic disciplines. Students also explore creative processes (examining artistic development and composition through improvisation, choreography, and cross-disciplinary methods), digital dance arts, historical and cultural dance studies, along with movement theory (investigating the principles, evolution, and techniques of various dance forms and mind-body disciplines).