Dancer: Sara Yanney Photographer: Mark Fronhna
Degree offered: Masters of Fine Arts in Dance
Website: https://www4.uwm.edu/psoa/dance/mfa/
Audition and application deadlines:
The priority deadline is November 1, 2016. The final deadline is March 1, 2017.
Average age range of your MFA students: 25 to 50
Average length of time it takes to complete your program: 5 semesters, with a flexible semester structure
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The UWM Department of Dance offers a low-residency graduate program leading to the Master of Fine Arts in Dance. The program follows an intense hybrid schedule (part online and part on campus) that includes two 7-week retreat-like summers on an urban campus, walking distance to Lake Michigan. The program is geared towards returning professionals’ needs and is designed to meet the scheduling constraints of working professional performers, choreographers and educators as they earn their degree.
Graduate students have the opportunity to examine their technical skills through current and cutting edge somatic perspectives and define their research emphases through rigorous inquiry into physical and theoretical practices. The program prepares future university dance professors and provides secondary school educators with the means to expand their theoretical and choreographic skills while increasing their earning potential in K-12 public and private institutions. The MFA program first and foremost supports student-based research.
Our students represent a cross-section of talented contemporary dance choreographers from across the United States including New York City, Chicago, California, the Mid-Atlantic States, and the Midwest.
UWM graduates who have been featured on Life as a Modern Dancer include:
- Nina Haft (Oakland, CA)
- Sima Belmar (Berkeley, CA)
- Colleen Thomas (New York, NY)
- Alexandra Beller (New York, NY)
- Gretchen Pick (Minneapolis, MN)
- Carrie Homuth (Minneapolis, MN)
- Kelli Brown (Eagle, ID)
- Katie Sopoci Drake (Chicago, IL)
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