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South Hadley,Massachusetts 01075
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DEGREES OFFERED

Bachelor of Arts in Dance - Choreography and Performance

Bachelor of Arts in Dance - Science, Somatics and Arts Therapies

Bachelor of Arts in Dance - History, Theory, and Criticism

Minor in Dance


The Mount Holyoke dance department is renowned for its extensive studio offerings in Hip-Hop and Street Dance styles, modern dance, choreography and repertory, as well as its rotating offerings in West African dance, ballet, Horton technique and improvisation. In the dance department, technique is supported by theory and cultural context through courses in Anatomy, Rhythmic Analysis, Dance and Culture and Dance History. This range of courses is further augmented by more than one hundred theory and studio courses offered annually through the Five College Dance Department.

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Past Student Productions

SHOW THEATER
In the Red and Brown Water
(11/11/21 - 11/14/21)
Mount Holyoke College
Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine
(10/21/21 - 10/24/21)
Mount Holyoke College
Indecent
(4/23/20 - 4/26/20)
Mount Holyoke College
Pride and Prejudice
(10/18/19 - 10/20/19)
Mount Holyoke College
When We Were Young and Unafraid
(4/10/19 - 4/14/19)
Mount Holyoke College
CABARET
(3/30/17 - 4/9/17)
Mount Holyoke College
CABARET (1998 VERSION)
(3/30/17 - 4/9/17)
Mount Holyoke College
Once Upon a Mattress in Broadway Once Upon a Mattress
(4/6/13 - 4/7/13)
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