舞蹈部门

Students pursue the major through one of two tracks: 表演/Choreography or Dance 研究. 这两个轨道代表了一个综合课程的研究，包括密集 dance technique, history/criticism, research skills, improvisation, and composition 类. 这两条路都通向理学学士学位，为学生将来的职业生涯做准备 a career in the fields of performance, choreography, dance education, dance therapies, 艺术管理，舞蹈评论和研究.

Over 70% of students in the department are double majors and many dancers design senior thesis projects that successfully and meaningfully align their double majors, demonstrating 致力于卓越的艺术和跨学科的舞蹈研究. 最近 graduates have earned degrees in both dance and exercise science, art history, 英语, theater, computer science, psychology, government, neuroscience, and biology (pre-med). Regardless of whether you major or minor, 类 and performances are open to everyone. The Department is rooted in the belief that dance is an inclusive art, available for 所有身体练习.

舞蹈曲目表(pdf)

The 表演/编排跟踪 challenges students with professional and academic 严谨，同时支持艺术探究和个人潜力. 舞蹈系的 curriculum offers high-level technical training from faculty with rich professional backgrounds and features an immersion into compositional practices to support a strong 舞蹈语言和表演技巧的基础. 这门课的学生 focus on artistic development and have the flexibility to devise a schedule that is highly dance intensive while simultaneously taking advantage of Skidmore’s liberal 艺术环境.

舞蹈研究轨道允许学生灵活地选择课程，同时 保持舞蹈专业的严谨. 这门课的学生被要求定义 their own research concentration and then are given a flexible eight credits of coursework 他们的舞蹈专业.

Students are encouraged to participate in independent studies engaging in their own research process and/or work as a research assistant on a faculty research initiative. 强烈鼓励跨学科研究. 这种独特的课程路径允许 Skidmore dancers to engage in areas 的研究 that are tailored to their own personal 目标. 拥抱火博体育的使命“创造性思维很重要”，舞蹈研究 Track为学生提供了空间和工具，让他们在其中开辟自己的道路 舞蹈的纪律.

表演是节目的重要组成部分. 舞蹈系每年生产 two major concerts featuring work by full-time faculty as well as commissioned pieces and staged masterworks by internationally acclaimed guest artists (see complete list 在“客座艺术家”标签下.)此外，还有很多表演机会 available through senior capstone/CODA concerts, formal choreography course showings, independent choreographic studies, dance for film projects, faculty-led performance 校内和校外的项目，以及学生领导的舞蹈组织. 表演 机会和音乐会试镜对所有火博体育学生开放.

There are several opportunities for students to design Interdisciplinary and collaborative 专注于校园内外创造性和学术参与的项目 火博体育社区. 此外，通过Skidmore的See Beyond提供资金 项目和舞蹈系的凯西和查理·迪桑托奖支持当地， 包括实习在内的国内和国际学生倡议， 艺术驻留和研究项目跨越广泛的兴趣. 过去的 项目包括:

• Exploring the Lived Experience of Black Women Through Dance, Deeply Rooted 舞蹈剧场, 芝加哥,伊利诺斯州
• 古典芭蕾训练对老年人姿势稳定性的影响
• 通过艺术拯救“基丘亚”语言:舞蹈和讲故事，厄瓜多尔
• Examining Neuromuscular Control of the Vastus Medialis Oblique and Vastus Lateralis 在基础舞蹈动作中
• International Education Internship, Dance-Therapy Focus, Mente Argentina, Buenos Aires
• 文理学院女舞者与运动员损伤模式的比较 舞者应该采用周期化吗?
• Internships at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The AileyCamp, and Brown’s 大学公共卫生学院
• The Compositional Ethnographic 研究 of the Hungarian-Israeli Relationship Expressed 通过性能
• Examining the Effect of Chronic Training and 表演 on Heart Rate Variability 在大学舞蹈中