Dance

What You’ll Learn

At Vermont State, we believe in learning through experience. To help prepare you for your dance career, you’ll write, direct, and design your own pieces. You’ll learn to contact professional venues, pitch your work, and perform on main stage theaters across Vermont. By coordinating every aspect of a theater production, you will enter the world of professional dance with a big advantage. 

Outside the Classroom, In the Community

Two senior capstone courses will ask you to implement everything you’ve learned and hone your craft. In the first, you’ll design and execute a project in the Dance Concentration. In the second, you‘ll master important aspects of professional theater — including audition preparation, resume and portfolio creation, interview skills, and self-promotion and branding. 

Special Facilities

You’ll take dance classes and rehearse pieces in our two dance studios in McClelland Hall. You’ll also perform on the main stage at our world-class Dibden Center for the Arts. Dibden is home to many of our dance, acting, technical theater, and music classes.