The Hampshire Dance Program curriculum includes a range of studio and theory courses. We regularly invite professional guest artists to offer master classes, 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
- Tilling the Field: Examining and Reimagining Contemporary
- American Arts Ecologies
- 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
- Dance in the Community: Bridging with Bodies
- Yoga: Philosophy and Practice
- Stomping the Blues: Black Musical Traditions in America Concert Dance
