Dance Minor
Advance Your Skills In Artistic, Composed Physical Performance While Enhancing Your Employability
Break into the creative and expressive world of Dance with the Catawba College Dance minor. Explore the foundations of a well-rounded, complimentary performing arts program that exposes you to a full spectrum of dance fundamentals, techniques, styles, and choreography.
The Catawba College Dance minor program teaches a full range of dance essentials in its balanced curriculum. You’ll explore Foundations in Movement, Tap/Jazz Dance, Ballet/Modern Dance, Historical and Cultural Perspectives in Dance, Choreography, and other Dance electives while complementing another performing arts major or any other major at Catawba.
Musical Theatre majors are encouraged to take courses in Dance as part of their degree requirements, providing a well-rounded performing arts education. Dance minors are therefore encouraged to explore other facets of performing arts as well, gaining invaluable exposure across creative disciplines and enhancing your skills, experience, and employability in the performing arts.
Theatre Arts Degree Programs
Learn about the Theatre Arts programs at Catawba College and why they are so unique. Fields of study include Theatre Arts, Design & Production, Performance, Musical Theatre, and Theatre Arts Administration.
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Enhanced Employability
Enhanced Employability
Dance minors often strategically complement their bachelor’s degrees or concentrations in Musical Theatre, Theatre Arts, Performance, or other related majors, leading to a broader range of employment opportunities right after graduation.
Study Abroad Opportunities
Study Abroad Opportunities
Recent study abroad travel offered by the Theatre Arts Department at Catawba College have included foreign study opportunities such as "Japanese Musical Theatre and Dance," a culture-rich performing art course to Japan.
Masterclasses in Dance
Masterclasses in Dance
Catawba College often provides masterclasses taught by some of the industry’s best, including director-choreographer Vincent Paterson, best known as the man behind some of Madonna and Michael Jackson's most signature dance moves.
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Our calculator is designed to give you an early indication of what type of financial aid you may qualify for if you were attending Catawba College as a first-year, transfer, online, or graduate student.
Catawba College’s Shuford School of Performing Arts presents Carrie: The Musical in the Hedrick Little Theatre on November 15, 16, 22, and 23 at 7:30 pm and November 17 at 2:30 pm.
Catawba College’s Shuford School of Performing Arts and the Blue Masque present The Revolutionists in the Florence Busby Corriher Theatre on October 19th at 2:30 pm and 7:30 pm and October 20th at 2:30 pm. Four women will lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
Catawba College Theatre Arts and the Blue Masque present a production of No Exit on October 4th and 5th at 7:30 pm and October 6th at 2:30 pm in the Florence Busby Corriher Experimental Theatre on Catawba's campus.
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