Dance Department Tracks
The Performance/Choreography Track challenges students with professional and academic rigor while supporting artistic
inquiry and personal potential. The Dance Department鈥檚 curriculum offers high-level
technical training from faculty with rich professional backgrounds and features an
immersion into compositional practices to support a strong foundation in choreographic
language and performance skills. Students in this track focus on artistic development
and have the flexibility to devise a schedule that is highly dance intensive while
simultaneously taking advantage of Skidmore鈥檚 liberal arts environment. 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
a commitment to both artistic excellence and interdisciplinary studies in dance.
The Dance Research Track allows students flexibility in their course choices while maintaining the rigor of
the dance major. Students in this track are asked to define their own research concentration
and then are given a flexible eight credits of coursework toward their dance major.
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.
Interdisciplinary research is strongly encouraged. This unique curricular path allows
Skidmore dancers to engage in areas of study that are tailored to their own personal
goals. Embracing the Skidmore mission of 鈥淐reative Thought Matters鈥�, the Dance Research
Track grants students both the space and the tools to forge their own path within
the discipline of dance.