Degree: MFA in Choreography and Performance 

 

Website: http://www.smith.edu/dance/masters.php

 

Application deadline: January 4, 2016

 

Audition date: February 12, 2016

 

Length of study: 2 years 

 

 

 

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The Smith College MFA Program's mission is to train choreographers in the articulation of their artistic views in practice and discourse, in performance and research, on the stage and in writing. The Program's choreographers work across a range of dance forms, including contemporary dance, ballet, improvisation, and hybrid styles that integrate these and other dance styles. The curriculum emphasizes the development of choreographic craftsmanship, while providing education in creative process methods, somatics, dance history and theory, contemporary dance aesthetics, dance for camera, dance pedagogy and music for dance. 

 

While based at Smith, the Program is enhanced by broad opportunities for studying, teaching and performing in the Five College Dance Department — conformed by Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Hampshire Colleges, as well as the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Students can take courses at all campuses and perform in works by faculty and guest choreographers in any of the colleges. Similarly, they can cast their own work with students from all five campuses, and receive mentorship from the Five College Dance Department's extensive and richly diverse faculty.  

 

The Program admits four students per year. All students are Teaching Fellows who receive a tuition waiver and a stipend, and teach (or act as teaching assistants) in three undergraduate courses per year, at Smith and occasionally on the other four campuses. Consequently, students acquire valuable teaching experience in these prestigious higher education institutions. 

 

Smith College is located in Northampton, Massachusetts, a thriving New England town within close distance of dance organizations such as Earthdance and the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. 

 

Smith College's graduate programs are open to both female and male students.

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