Dance

Make your love of dance part of your college degree!

Are you an undergraduate Boston University student who dances five to 15 hours per week? Consider the dance minor for an artistic addition, career advancement, and verification of your commitment to dance.

The dance minor at BU is designed to enhance a student’s preparedness for a number of multidisciplinary fields, including dance aesthetics, dance history, movement education, musical theatre, and arts administration.

For those who wish to pursue dance performance or choreography as a career, or who wish to apply to graduate programs in dance, the dance minor will serve as verification of their skill level and commitment to this field of study. In order to receive a minor in dance, students will be required to complete 20 credits in dance theory, history, composition, and studio and performance experiences.

Degrees Offered

Featured Faculty

Yo-EL Cassell

Head of Movement; Assistant Professor, Movement; Co-Chair, Dance Minors; Advisor/Faculty Mentor, Theatre Minors

CREATIVES IN PRACTICE:
YO-EL CASSELL

A key message for Yo-EL Cassell’s theatre and movement students at Boston University: curiosity becomes the entry point for creativity. Cassell, an award-winning choreographer, head of movement at BU, assistant professor of movement at BU School of Theatre, dance minor coordinator, and advisor to theatre minor students, is practicing what he preaches through his “Journey of Youth” (J.O.Y. for short) technique.

In CFA’s Creatives in Practice series, Cassell shares what he’s been up to during his most recent sabbatical leave. His journey has taken him abroad to Europe to teach, participate in a creative residency, and research the rise in popularity of physical theatre. Back in the States, Cassell curated a colloquium focusing on movement as medicine, finished his book proposal on the J.O.Y. technique, and, for the past year and a half, has been working with The American Physical Theatre (APT) in New York City.

“It’s been an honor to be involved with the development of The American Physical Theatre as one of the founding members and consultants, where we recently performed in March to sold-out capacity at Harlem Stage. The company realized that there is this real hunger for physical theatre where the body as a communicative channel becomes the expressive channel.”