Dance - lower half

MINOR IN DANCE REQUIREMENTS

The following requirements must be fulfilled: 18 credits, including a 3-credit required course and 15 credits in elective courses:

MINOR REQUIREMENTS

female student practicing performance

"By the time I arrived at GW my strength was classical dance, as well as flamenco, Russian character, and Mexican folklore, so the program’s focus on post-modern dance was new and exciting to me."
- Arianne Gandy, B.A., Dance ’22, photographed by Sydney Walsh

Linda Ryan

In “Go!” Linda explores how people interact with technology and those around us. Using Go-Pros to capture different perspectives, she choreographed herself and two others, combining her arts and technology backgrounds.

FACULTY

Dana Tai Soon Burgess teaching students dance

Professor Dana Tai Soon Burgess (MFA, '94), dances among art — literally. Juggling roles as the Smithsonian’s first choreographer-in-residence at the National Portrait Gallery and as a State Department cultural ambassador, Burgess uses movement to tell stories from an immersive, non-linear perspective.

Maida Withers performing on stage

Professor Maida Withers was key in establishing radical notions in the 1960s dance revolution as one of the first artists to combine live performance in a responsive laser environment. She continues to explore the intersection of dance, performance and technology today.

ALUMNI

Woman laughing in the jungle with native peoples

Filmmaker Iwonka Swenson (BA ‘98, Minor in Modern Dance) was one of the filmmakers recently involved in producing the newly premiered series on Netflix, We Speak Dance.

Dawn Cable Monster

Dawn Stoppiello (MFA '14) was appointed an Assistant Professor of Practice in Dance & New Media at USC Kaufman School of Dance. She is widely recognized for her 25-year career in choreography for bodies interfaced to computers.

Photo Credit: Piro Patton

CONTACTS

You can contact us by phone at 202-994-8072, fax at 202-994-9403 or email at [email protected]. You can find us at

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814 20th Street NW, 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20052

Program Head
Carl Gudenius
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Academic Administrator
Dalton Lamberth
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Undergraduate Advisor
Maida Withers
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