University of Southern Mississippi Department of Theatre and Dance

We are a collective of dance artists and educators who bring expertise, passion, emphathy, and our joy to our students, by engaging them in experiences that allow them to integrate theory and practice of dance in a way that is meaningful to their lives.

The Southern Miss dance major program was the first program in Mississippi to offer the professional B.F.A. degree in dance. It is the only program in the five-state region that offers a dance education K-12 emphasis and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD), which is recognized by the United States Department of Education.

The challenging and intensive four-year dance major program is grounded in a comprehensive curriculum of dance technique (ballet and modern), choreography and performance. The dance education emphasis is designed to provide students with the credentials necessary to teach dance in the Mississippi public school system. Course offerings include dance appreciation, dance in cultural context, 20th century dance forms, improvisation, composition, rhythmic analysis and accompaniment, music analysis and resources, methods of teaching K-12, labanotation, junior choreographic project, senior choreographic research project, dance repertory, dance production, modern, ballet, and jazz..

Southern Miss students may elect to minor in dance by participating in a selected course of study within the dance major curriculum.

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