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Brief History and Context
About the College
“Since its founding in 1889, Barnard has been a distinguished leader in higher education, offering a rigorous liberal arts foundation to young women whose curiosity, drive and exuberance set them apart.”
About the Dance Department
About the Dance Department
“The Barnard College Department of Dance, located in a world dance capital, offers an interdisciplinary program that integrates the study of dance within a liberal arts setting of intellectual and creative exploration.”
Important Characteristics
Programs Offered
GUEST CHOREOGRAPHERS
Important Characteristics
- Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college
- No audition required to become a dance major, instead admittance is based on academic standing. Once admitted to Barnard a student can take any level appropriate dance class
- Barnard’s dance department has a robust faculty: 6 full-time, 35 part-time and guest artists, and 3 full-time staff.
- Double majoring is encouraged
- Dance Courses are open to majors and non-majors
- Barnard is one of the four undergraduate colleges of Columbia University. The Department of Dance at Barnard College is the Department of Dance for all four colleges.
Programs Offered
- Major in Dance
- Minor in Dance
- (Course work consists of Ballet, Modern, Non-western dance forms, Somatic studies, dance history, and Compositional studies.)
- Overview of Major Requirements
- (11 total, plus 8 technique courses)
- 1 Movement Science
- 1 Composition
- 2 History
- 1 Senior Seminar
- 1 Senior Project (Research in Dance or Repertory for Dance)
- 5 Electives
- 8 Technique Courses
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FLYING LESSON (2007)
Guest choreographers come and you can audition to perform their choreography at Miller Theatre. Two of the guest choreographers form a duo called chameckilerner, and they made a short film called the Flying Lesson that you can check out.
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-Mark Morris, Yin Yue, and more. These are people who have their own companies and dance groups. The dancers at Barnard get the opportunity to work with these well-known choreographers.
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MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP | CROSSWALK ( EXCERPT)
There are master classes, that can serve as auditions for summer intensives. For example, there is a mark morris master class on Friday, March 2, and it is serving as an audition to get into the mark morris dance group summer intensive.
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Festival of the Arts 2016: Dance in the City
There are summer programs at Barnard College. This one is called Dance in the City. You go to New York, and Learn about dance from different perspectives. As a dancer, as a choreographer, and as an audience member. You will take classes and then have the opportunity to choreograph pieces to showcase. This video shows a few student's pieces created during the program.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Program Information
- To see Campus Tours and Class Visits go here
- Prospective students can observe or participate in intermediate level classes while visiting the department.
- To fill out a prospective student form go here
- Average cost before aid is $65 thousand
- Average cost after aid is $26 thousand
- To see Costs and Aid go here
How to get There (public transit info)
- Via Subway: In Manhattan, the local 1 subway train stops at 116th Street and Broadway (the Columbia University station).
- Via NYC Bus: The Madison Avenue M4 bus and the Broadway M104 bus stop at Broadway and 116th, 118th, and 120th Streets.
Famous Barnard College Alumnae
-Martha Stewart, she planned to major in chemistry but switched to art, history, and later architectural history. She is now an American retail executive businesswoman, writer, and television personality.
-Zora Neale Hurston graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in anthropology. She became an influential author of African American literature
-Ntozake Shange was at Barnard, class of 1970, she met Thulani Davis another poet in her time at Barnard college, and they did some work together. She is now known as a playwright and poet whose work addresses issues relating to race and black power.
-Laurie Anderson graduated with a B.A. and studied Art history at Barnard College. She is now an Avante-Garde artist, composer, and musician.
-Twyla Tharp graduated from Barnard College class 63' and has become a well-known dancer, choreographer, and author. She lives and works in New York City with her own dance company. Twyla Tharp Dance was created in 1966.
-Twyla Tharp graduated from Barnard College class 63' and has become a well-known dancer, choreographer, and author. She lives and works in New York City with her own dance company. Twyla Tharp Dance was created in 1966.
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