The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance offers a rigorous immersion in the performing art with the goal of providing professional training to young dancers as movers, makers, technicians and thinkers as they evolve as whole artists. At the heart of the curriculum are daily courses in technique, which includes contemporary dance, ballet, hip hop, tap, jazz and West African; rigorous bi-weekly choreographic application of ideas of space, time and form; and near-daily rehearsal in the University Dance Theater (UDT). Through the support of the department’s professionally active and diverse faculty, UDT functions as a laboratory where dancers wrestle with new movement idioms or choreographic methods, and are given the chance to push their dancing to new heights. At the same time, the program’s academic coursework in history, dance cultures, pedagogy, and kinesiology provide students an intellectual foundation to understand the body as historical, cultural, and material.