Dance, B.S.

Middle Tennessee State University

MTSU offers the only Bachelor of Science degree in Dance at a public university in Tennessee. The program promotes diverse intellectual and artistic scholarship, while fostering professional and social excellence in a liberal arts setting. Through studio training, dance studies courses, and curricular and co-curricular activities, our students can be prepared to become artists, scholars, educators, arts advocates and leaders in the field of dance and beyond. Admission to the B.S. in Dance is through audition only. Dance study at MTSU emphasizes a holistic approach that rigorously trains the body and engages the mind. Dancers are encouraged to develop creative and critical perspectives. Students are expected to examine the cultural and historical contexts of dance and to develop the abilities to both move and think logically, critically, and creatively, and to communicate clearly.

MTSU Dance students receive training that can lead to many careers, with graduates finding performance opportunities in professional companies, in the entertainment industry, and as entrepreneurial artists and choreographers. Graduates also teach in studios, schools, and community-based programs, further their education in graduate school and teach at the university level, and apply their dance knowledge to a broad range of fields including exercise science, somatic training practices like Alexander Technique, and dance therapy.

Employer examples include, but are not limited to,

The American School Switzerland

Blue Moves

Bridging Souls Productions

Chattanooga Dance Theatre

Christopher K. Morgan & Artists

Company Rose

Disney

FALL

Inlet Dance Theatre

Momentum Dance Lab

Numinous Flux

Of Bones Brooklyn