Degrees and Requirements
Performing Arts - Dance Performance
Note: Admission for Fall 2023 into the Performing Arts/Dance Studio degree program has been temporarily paused.
La Roche University Dance Department Mission and Vision
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the La Roche University Dance Department is to prepare a competent, educated, and mature professional who is viable in the current creative work force. We are committed to nurturing our students through extensive technical training, a deep historical and kinesthetic knowledge of the art form, and an enriched artistic awareness that is developed through performance and practicum.
The La Roche University Dance Department is a ballet-based program offering a Bachelor of Arts Degree in professional performance and pedagogy. The concentration of the dance department is rooted in classical ballet; however, the artists are to reach proficiency in multiple genres including: contemporary ballet, modern technique, jazz, Pilate’s technique, and dance composition.
VISION
The La Roche University Dance Department strives to educate and coach our students in a nurturing and compassionate way, developing each of their individual talents through a comprehensive and cohesive academic and creative environment.
DEPARTMENTAL GOALS
The La Roche University Dance Department is committed to the development and enhancement of our artist’s abilities in an effort to articulate our pristine accelerated programmatic goals on a national level.
- Students study and train primarily with the Director of Dance for the duration of four years while receiving enrichment from company artists and esteemed guests of Bodiography Contemporary Ballet.
- Students are required to reach equal proficiency in both classical ballet technique and contemporary technique upon graduation.
- Students are required to demonstrate their competency and knowledge of all techniques through the production of a student guided senior thesis, which identifies their technical balance while highlighting their individual artistic strengths.
REQUIREMENTS: To successfully complete the Performing Arts-Dance Studio major, the following coursework is required:
- 88 credits as listed under “Major Component/Requirements” (58 Dance Studio requirements, 30 Dance Academic Requirements)
- 37 CORE credits
- A minimum number of 125 credits are required for degree, the last 30 of which, and 50% of the major must be earned at La Roche University. (Developmental course work does not count toward the minimum number of required credits for graduation.)
Summary of Requirements
Dance Requirements: 58 credits
PART1000
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART1004
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART1005
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART1009
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART1012
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART2001
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART2004
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART2005
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART2009
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART2012
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART3000
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART3004
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART3005
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART3009
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART4000
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART4004
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART4005
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART4009
Credits (Min/Max): /
Performing Arts Academics - 30 credits:
BIOL1002
Credits (Min/Max): /
PREREQUISITES:
Dance Majors Only
NSCI1025
Credits (Min/Max): /
NSCI2005
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART1022
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART2010
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART2015
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART3015
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART3030
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART4030
Credits (Min/Max): /
PART4055
Credits (Min/Max): /