Studying Dance at Weber State

At Weber State University, you can tailor your dance education to your interests and goals. Pathways include technique, choreography, performance, teaching, production, community engagement, and interdisciplinary learning. You will gain hands-on experience and strengthen your creativity, leadership, and teamwork.

Dance Highlights

Weber State’s dance major offers individualized attention and the opportunity to co-produce your own concert. You will learn from faculty with professional dance backgrounds and a variety of styles, as well as from visiting artists from around the country.

Beyond the Classroom

Weber State Dance students can perform and choreograph in university productions, teach in schools and community settings, explore dance production, collaborate with guest artists, participate in research, and work with diverse populations, including children, older adults, and individuals with neurological or mobility-related conditions.ted conditions.

Conner Erickson

“Weber won me over once I realized how much individual attention I received in the dance program. I’ve been given multiple opportunities to perform and choreograph in and outside of school, opening doors that wouldn't have existed before, as well as helping me continue my growth as an artist and in my technical ability.”

What You’ll LEARN at Weber

At Weber State, you will develop the artistic, technical, intellectual, and professional skills required for a meaningful career in dance. You will enhance your abilities in performance, choreography, teaching, improvisation, and dance production, while studying the history, theory, culture, and science of human movement.

You will also learn to integrate therapeutic and adaptive dance practices into educational, community, creative aging, and arts-in-health settings. Career-readiness courses and practical experiences will help you build skills in leadership, communication, collaboration, entrepreneurship, audition preparation, portfolio development, and arts administration.

Through performances, teaching practicum, community projects, research, and interdisciplinary collaborations, you will build professional connections and prepare for employment, graduate study, and diverse dance-related careers.

What You CAN DO After Weber

Depending on your degree, additional training, and credentials, you may pursue opportunities in:

  • Dance performance and choreography
  • Dance education in schools, studios, and community programs
  • Arts integration and artist-in-residence programs
  • Therapeutic and adaptive dance programming
  • Creative aging and arts-in-health settings
  • Dance production, technology, and stage management
  • Arts administration, marketing, public relations, and grant development
  • Community engagement and nonprofit arts organizations

If you have questions about the programs, please contact the Weber State Dance Area or a WSU Career Advisor.

Faculty Perspective

Studying Dance at Weber State University prepares students for fulfilling careers in dance and beyond. The curriculum offers opportunities for students to find their individual voice through many choices in courses, integrated studies, collaborative perspectives, and research-based integration.

Dr. Juan Carlos Claudio, Ph.D., MHA, MFA

The dance area is more than a university degree program. We are a community whose mission is to promote and support self-confidence, and the use of the creative voice through the study of the dancing body, engagement in the arts and academic rigor.

Jo Blake