An audition is required for entrance to the major and for the minor in 表演与编舞. 试镜者将参加芭蕾舞的部分表演, Modern, 非洲或爵士技术课程，以及简短的即兴表演. You also need to meet the general university requirements for admission to Ohio University. 探索我们今年的试镜日期和开放日活动 here.
Yes, the College of Fine arts offer talent-based scholarships for incoming students such as the Fine Arts Talent Award (FATA). If awarded the FATA, it is renewable for four years as long as the student maintains a 3.专业平均成绩0分，每学期注册15个学分. The audition for the Dance major is also the audition for talent-based scholarships.
Funds for academically talented and creatively gifted students are offered by Ohio University through a variety of scholarships. The Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships also offers awards with special criteria. Your first-year admissions application serves as your application for most University scholarships. 有关资料可于以下网址查阅: http://tat.kionssdywfnkr.com/financial-aid/types/scholarships
Yes! 我们鼓励所有学生参加舞蹈课程. 舞蹈学院提供非主要的现代舞工作室课程, ballet, jazz, and African dance forms, yoga, and Pilates. 我们也提供二级美术课程的舞蹈欣赏, dance history, and dance cultures, including 1700: The Dance Experience; 2700: Languages of Dance; 2710: Black Dance Forms; 3550: Dance Cultures of the World; and 4711: Dance, Gender, and Sexuality.
There are also two student-run dance organizations that are supported by the School of Dance:
The Movement is an organization for Ohio University students interested in the performance and other presentations of dance and artistic collaborations involving movement. A primary aim of the organization is the promotion of dance as a thriving art in both the University and the Athens community. “The Movement,与舞蹈学院密切合作，使用一些设施, equipment, and sharing some goals. 它作为一个学生组织保持着自治权. “The Movement” presents concerts of student works and offers scholarships for summer study. John Bohuslawsky是该运动的顾问.
雅典黑人当代舞蹈(ABCD) is a dance organization that presents student choreography that celebrates Black dance forms, themes and aesthetics. Like “The Movement,” it maintains autonomy as a student organization and uses resources within the School of Dance to help promote its goals.
The B.F.A. and B.A. in Dance are four-year degree programs, and most of our students complete their degree in four years. Graduation rates depend on student enrollment in the first year of college and compliance with advising recommendations. Students who pursue a dual major in another discipline may need to complete additional semesters.
Yes, many students in the School of Dance complete internships during their undergraduate career in order to gain professional experience. 实习可以获得学分. 我们的学生已经在贝茨舞蹈节完成了实习, 雅各布枕头舞蹈节, 玛莎葡萄园的院子, OhioDance, 瑞士凯茜·夏普舞蹈团, 还有很多其他组织.
The School of Dance also offers an internship program through Factory Street Studio, 当地一家非盈利的舞蹈工作室. Ohio University students gain hands-on learning in dance education by assisting teachers, 教自己的课, 或者帮助策划社区的舞蹈活动. This internship is available to all students who have successfully completed the Dance Pedagogy course.
Observing and/or participating in classes is readily possible with some advance notice. 开放日安排在11月和1月. Prospective students are encouraged to attend and participate in a modern technique classes on these days from 10:45-12:45.
High school students may also participate in Experience the Arts Day. Our faculty and students will be your hosts as you learn about our programs. Sit in on a class, 获得老师对你非正式舞蹈试镜的反馈, 参加技术课程, watch a rehearsal, 参加舞蹈专业的试镜并获得才艺奖学金. Meet other artists, dancers, designers, musicians, and actors just like you.
All events are FREE and open to students, parents, teachers, and school counselors.
During Experience the Arts Day you can see what students do during a typical day in each School in the College of Fine Arts.
The School of Dance offers three minors: The Minor in Dance 表演与编舞 enhances students’ kinesthetic knowledge and performance presence, which can be applied in any career that requires physical skill and confidence. 通过舞蹈创作课程, dance production, 以及舞蹈历史/文化研究, the Dance 表演与编舞 minor also emphasizes the creative process, 懂得如何组织一场舞台音乐会, and how to understand dance in socio-cultural and historical contexts. Our graduates have applied these skills and concepts in fields as diverse as education, publishing, journalism, anthropology, communication, social work, physical therapy, acting, broadcasting, and many more.
The Minor in Somatic Studies considers the particular bodily kinesthetic knowledge that dancers develop in the course of their education. Students perform physical activities and analyze movement practices from a variety of somatic theory perspectives, learning about the body’s operations through both theory and practice. 在心理学辅修学位工作中学习, pre-physical therapy, exercise physiology, recreational therapy, and physical education. Somatic Studies minors have also gone into the field of Dance/Movement Therapy.
The Minor in Dance History and Theory focuses on the growing field of dance studies that uses a dance-based theoretical perspective and other movement practices to analyze dance in cultural contexts. This concentrated study helps prepare students with a specialized dance emphasis for employment or graduate study in dance studies, arts administration, dance ethnology, journalism or criticism, 在电影或录像中跳舞.
Approximately 70% of our graduates continue in the field of dance and related arts. Career opportunities available to the dance graduate include preparation and/or studies leading to the following: