Dance Department
Flexibility
It’s an integral part of your art. You’ve been developing it in yourself for years. Throughout your dance education, it has been demanded of you.
We think it’s only fair you should demand it right back.
At Goucher College, flexibility isn’t just an integral part of dance as an art form – it’s an integral part of the entire dance program. Whatever your involvement in dance – as a major, minor, or part-time enthusiast – you can choreograph your own steps toward the dance education you want, mixing and matching classes to get you where you want to go.
Add to that abundant opportunities to perform and choreograph – plus an academic richness and depth that you can only get at a liberal arts institution – and you begin to understand why Goucher’s dance program is among the best offered by liberal arts colleges in the nation. But don’t take it from us. Take it from our students. If the variety of experiences they have at Goucher isn’t enough of a testament to the flexibility and opportunity you will find here, they’ll be happy to tell you themselves.
To become a true artist, you have to be flexible physically and mentally. You have to learn to think and dream and imagine without boundaries. More than anything else, that’s what a Goucher education prepares you to do.
Latest News
| Ballet Guest Artist: Susan Jaffe February 5-10, 2012 Susan Jaffe, ballerina, international guest artist, choreographer, master teacher, author, and currently Ballet Mistress of American Ballet Theatre, known as the long stemmed American rose who matched all-American dazzle with eloquent form will give master classes and set a work on Goucher dancers to be performed at the Goucher Repertory Dance Ensemble Concert on April 20 and 21. Master classes are open to high-intermediate and advanced ballet dancers. Class fee: $20 |
| Meet the Artist: Susan Jaffe February 10, 2012, 6 p.m. Meet Susan Jaffe, former principal dancer of American Ballet Theatre and ballet guest artist in residence, and observe our dancers in rehearsal for the Goucher Repertory Dance Ensemble concert. Todd Dance Studio |
| Modern Guest Artist: Rodger Belman February 17-24, 2012 Rodger Belman was a member of Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians from 1989 to 1995, and has performed with such artists as Twyla Tharp, Rachel Lampert, and Mark Taylor. He currently serves as a faculty member and guest artist at numerous institutions, and he has been a faculty member of the American Dance Festival since 2007. Belman will teach modern classes and will set a work on Goucher dancers for the Goucher Repertory Dance Ensemble Concert. Master classes are open to high-intermediate and advanced modern dancers. Class fee: $20 |
| Meet the Artist: Rodger Belman February 25, 2012; 4 p.m. Meet Rodger Belman, educator, choreographer, performer, and modern guest artist in residence, and watch a rehearsal of his work to be performed at the upcoming concert. |
| Open Marley March 30, 2012; 6:30 p.m. Goucher students present original choreography-in-progress to receive critical response and |