The Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College offers BFA and MFA degree programs that prepare students for careers in the professional dance world. Purchase graduates perform with most of the important modern and ballet dance companies in the world. They teach as guest artists, direct, choreograph major productions and have founded their own companies all around the globe. BFA DegreeThe BFA professional training degree program offers the serious and dedicated dance student daily classes in classical ballet and contemporary modern dance. These are followed by modern and/or ballet partnering, pointe for the ballet women, men's classes, modern repertory workshops and performance, performance, performance. The undergraduate program emphasizes both performance and choreography and assures an artistic foundation through the four year composition program and studies of Music for Dance, Dance History, Dance Production, Anatomy for Dance and General Education Courses. MFA DegreeThe MFA degree program in Dance offers two separate but inter-related tracks of choreography or performance/teaching to further develop the skills of serious and dedicated dance artists. During this intensely focused two year full-time professional training program the candidate will research their art as a choreographer, teacher or performing artist and through the presentation of their work will develop a strong sense of individual artistic identity. |