Pair | Shape | Create
Pair your passion. Shape your future. Create careers that don't exist yet.
Where Can This Degree Take You?
The Dance BA prepares you for careers that are as dynamic and interdisciplinary as your interests. Through the Performing Arts Core, you develop skills in performance, choreography, collaboration, arts leadership, digital marketing, entrepreneurship, community engagement, research, grant writing, and ethical practice. These experiences come to life through opportunities in dance concerts, films, musicals, plays, community projects, and interdisciplinary creative work.
- Performance
- Choreography
- Dance production
- Creative direction
- Filmmaking
- Arts management
- Community arts programming
- Interdisciplinary artistic practice
- Arts management
- Fundraising and development
- Event production
- Marketing and communications
- Grant writing
- Creative entrepreneurship
- Community arts programming
- Youth development initiatives
- Cultural organizations
- Advocacy and outreach
- Community leadership
- Dance and wellness programming
- Somatic practice
- Recreation programming
- Community health initiatives
- Movement-based approaches to health and well-being
- Community arts education
- Arts integration
- Studio instruction
- K–12 teaching pathways (with appropriate licensure requirements)
- Graduate study
- Dance/movement therapy (with graduate study)
- Counseling pathways
- Psychology
- Social work
- Community mental health
- Human-centered professions that integrate movement, communication, and relationship-building
- Content creation
- Social media management
- Digital storytelling
- Arts marketing
- Interdisciplinary work connecting movement and technology
- Dance
- Arts administration
- Education
- Communications
- Business
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Public health
- Social work
- Dance/movement therapy
- Related interdisciplinary fields
The Dance BA prepares you to do more than choose a career. It prepares you to design one.
By connecting dance with other fields of study, you'll develop the skills, experiences, and perspective to pursue emerging opportunities and create pathways that are uniquely your own.