Just as acting majors at Wright State are required to take dance, dance majors must take one year of acting. The overlapping of the dance and acting programs allows the students to explore both disciplines in an effort to produce an educated, artistic, and multi-talented individual. The accomplished and artistic dancer must have a knowledge of and appreciation for music aesthetics. Dancers must study basic music theory to be able to read a musical score and understand time and key signatures, note values, rhythm, phrasing, tonality, and dynamics. Dance majors take four music courses in jazz, popular musical theatre, introduction to music theory, and music in western culture.
Dancers also study singing for musical theatre and take one year of private lessons.