Program Overview
The Bachelor’s degree in Dance emphasizes training in dance performance and choreographic skills. This degree is designed to provide students with a broad and thorough base of dance technique training and performance experience to prepare for continued study at the graduate level or to enter the dance field in a professional capacity.
The multi-cultural emphasis of the degree program makes it unique among most dance degree programs. The program offers a curriculum of technique classes in Ballet, Modern, Mexican Folklorico, and Flamenco. It also offers one concentration.
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Possible Career Options
A BFA in Dance opens the door to a career in dance that include opportunities such as working as a choreographer in a dance company, as a professional dancer, a dance educator, or an arts administrator. There are other areas behind the scenes in production, marketing, and management. Those with an entrepreneurial spirit can explore starting their own dance studio or offer speciality consultations.
Being a Vaquero means that I would get to represent my Hispanic heritage in the industry where I decide to work in the future, and no matter where I go, belonging to this family would be a legacy that would follow me forever and that I would proudly carry.
What made me feel more comfortable and assured is the fact that UTRGV offers a bilingual, bicultural, and biliterate education which has made the transition process for me, as a first-generation student, easier.
