Dance Minor

Building Your Skills

As a Dance Minor student at UCM, you’ll have numerous opportunities to grow your skills and participate in our production program. Dance opportunities include our Main Stage musicals, the Spring Dance Concert, Black Box dance productions, the Department of Music opera, as well as participating in guest artist workshops, end of semester dance class showcases, the UCM Dance Club's annual presentation of Dancing With The Professors, and the American College Dance Association. In 2020, UCM became an Institutional Member of the National Dance Educators Organization and began a National Honor Soceity of Dance Arts UCM Chapter.

Diverse Content/Excellent Training

This 22-hour minor has classes in Modern, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Musical Theatre Dance, Choreography, and other departmental core classes and electives. You'll be taught by Ashley Miller-Scully, our BFA Musical Theatre program coordinator and faculty choreographer, as well as Amy Gilchirst, Adjunct Instructor for Ballet I and Ballet II. Your participation in the classroom, the production program and attending guest artist workshops and regional conferences wil increase your knowledge and skill, and give you multiple performance opportunities. 

At UCM, we value engaging learning experiences that include student involvement and service-learning projects. Involvement opportunities include: