Fine Arts
Dance
Discover Your Creative Potential
Move yourself. Move others. A minor in dance gives you an outlet to explore the creative boundaries of the human body. Dance at Hillsdale includes ballet, modern, choreography, and social dance, as well as history and theatre requirements that give depth to your passion for self-expression. Our extracurricular dance company, the Tower Dancers, performs new choreography annually. Dance is offered as a minor only.
Featured Faculty
Dance
Holly Hobbs
“It is essential to foster creativity and enable dancers to efficiently extend themselves through diverse qualities of movement.”
Holly Hobbs, Dance
Featured Courses
Students will receive an introduction to the basic techniques and vocabulary of ballet.
Read More about "Ballet I"This course is an introduction to improvisation and its use as a basis for dance choreography.
Read More about "Choreography and Improvisation I"Students will be given an overview of dance forms from around the world and throughout history. The interrelatedness and impact of dance on other art forms, as well as its role in society, will be particularly emphasized. Students will gain this knowledge through lectures, …
Read More about "History of Dance"Tower Dancers
Each year the Tower Dancers produce a program of new choreography, as well as participate in Tower Players theatre productions.