This information will provide you with an overview of what is available, with special attention given to the Program in Theater and Dance. The basic purpose of the Program is to familiarize students, through exposure to professional practice, professional artists, and professional critics and scholars, both with the nature of practical work in drama and dance and with the roles theater and dance have played and continue to play in different cultures at different times. All students, whether or not they are interested in a career in the arts, are offered the opportunity to involve themselves in an important field of the creative arts while simultaneously pursuing a liberal arts education. The Program also offers sufficient courses and extra-curricular activities that the serious student will, upon graduation, be prepared for advanced study in acting, directing, playwriting, design, dramaturgy, or choreography, dance technique and repertory. Program courses are designed to encourage artistic creation and to understand the many forms artistic creation has taken.
Many students find our courses intensely self-fulfilling and liberating.
However, they also require discipline, technique, the willingness to take risks and possibly fail, and the desire to work hard at what inevitably prove to be demanding tasks. All Program courses are taught by professional artists or scholars. Most are workshop courses which involve the serious investigation of a particular art form. The performance-oriented courses require extensive preparation of practical work. All courses demand regular attendance.