Hampshire College

The Hampshire Dance Program curriculum includes a range of studio and theory courses. We regularly invite professional guest artists to offer master classes, January Term courses, and performances. Hampshire students also have access to a wide diversity of other dance classes through the Five College Dance Department.

Sample Courses:

Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Modern Dance Technique

Black Traditions in American Dance

Choreography on Film

Contemplative Dance/Authentic Movement

Dance in Culture

Dance as an Art Form

Dance Repertory

Embodied Imagination

Introductory and Intermediate Dance Composition

Jazz Modernism

Laban Movement Analysis

Sources of Creativity

Twentieth Century American Dance: Sixties Vanguard to Nineties Hip Hop