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
• Making Dances: Introductory and Intermediate Dance Composition
• Dancing Motown: Rhythm and Blues, Soul and Funk
• Performing Dance Repertory
• Dance and Culture
• Protest Traditions in American Dance: African American Social and Performance History
• Somatics
• Laban Movement Analysis
• Dancing in Context
• Embodied Imagination
• West African Dance, African Independence Struggles, and the Making of Revolutionary Nationalism
• Fleeting Images: Choreography on Film
• Contemplative Dance/Authentic Movement
• Arab American Tribal Fusion Dance