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Dance
Degrees Offered: BA, BFA
Contact:
Jeanne Fornarola, Director of Dance
Molly Casarella, Assistant to the Chair, Undergraduate Advisor
Spring
Dance Program Class Schedule (Undergraduate)
Fall Dance Program Class Schedule (Undergraduate)
Undergraduate Course Catalog for Academic Requirements
The UB dance program is a nurturing and challenging artistic community that equally emphasizes the value of education fueled with intensive and creatively stimulating professional experiences. The BA and BFA dance degrees include an in-depth broad ranged curriculum with equal emphasis and respect between ballet, modern, jazz and tap. Creative tracks and concentration within the degree programs allow students various options in preparing for professional dance careers. Fields of study are available in performance; choreography; preparation for teaching; somatic or recreational settings; and history. Unique to the program are offerings in comparative jazz styles and techniques. Additional offerings include: dance history, dance kinesiology, teaching methods, music theatre dance, social dance, male dancer, partnering, pointe, mind-body integration, internships in dance, creative movement and choreography. This eclectic course of study combined with strong interdisciplinary general education requirements cultivates resourceful and informed young artists that successfully cross over into concert dance, commercial dance, graduate school, private studio teaching and dance arts education.
The dance faculty's eclectic professional backgrounds steeped in traditional dance forms reflect this unique program and the dance pulse of the 21st century. Active professional teacher/artists along with established residencies and guest artists enhance the UB educational process providing valuable networking opportunities for graduating students. Past residencies have included: Taylor II, Limon, Bill T. Jones, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company and Doug Varone and Dancers. World Dance residencies have included: Eager Artists, South Africa, Jagdish Gangani, India, In Sohn Young, Korea, and master dance classes with David Parsons, Philadanco, UB Alumni, and tap greats Robert Reed and the late Honi Coles. Each year the UB Center for the Arts, the home of the 
Department of Theatre & Dance offers a world renowned dance series which includes the listed residencies and other notables as Garth Fagan Dance, The Joffrey Ensemble, Martha Graham Ensemble, Le Ballet National du Senegal, River Dance, Tap Dogs and others.
The state of the art facilities, hosts a production calendar that provides cutting edge opportunities for students to showcase performance and choreography. Two resident credited dance companies: Zodiaque Dance Company presents a main stage production each semester and its companion company, Zodiaque Studio Dance Ensemble presents each Fall semester. 
Both companies are also involved in special university and community projects from extravaganza styled industrial performances to private and public out- reach performances. Eligible juniors and seniors present inventive risk-taking choreography in Emerging Choreographers Showcase, mentored by the diverse caring faculty. Added to all this is Dancers Workshop, a student performance venue that showcases the emerging artistic and powerful voices of all dance students.
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UB Alumni Perform Benefit Concert