The dance program at Boston College educates the whole person, including creative, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of this artistic form. Work experienced in class opens the students to self discovery and builds technical mastery. Ongoing exploration, developing skills, and readings in choreography, history, and kinesiology help connect the process to a larger perspective. A unique emphasis is available as well in Sacred and Liturgical dance. Academic challenge and performance opportunities build the students' confidence while allowing for highly individualized educational goals to be met.
Many students continue to choreograph and perform after graduating.
The classes offer a comprehensive base in dance as a theatre art. Upon graduating from the college, students enter the dance world as performers, choreographers, critics, therapists, knowledgeable audience members, and dance supporters. Discoveries made in the classroom and on stage turn the living art of dance into concrete expression. Skills learned are reflected in the students' approach to creative living and problem solving. Robert Ver Eecke, SJ, and members of the resident dance company.