NEWS Summer Pre-College Program! Adelphi University is proud to launch three Pre-College programs for talented high school students in DANCE, jazz, and theatre technology and design. These exciting programs provide students with the opportunity to be truly immersed in the arts and substantially strengthen their skills while being part of a challenging University-based learning community.  For more information see precollege.adelphi.edu.

Express your unique skills in dance movements that capture your creativity and talent. The Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) with a specialization in dance is a performance-based program with equal time given to the study of classical and modern dance techniques.

You will perfect your skills in small classes taught by a dedicated faculty with extensive experience as dance professionals and academicians. Workshops, senior projects, and Dance Adelphi offer many performance opportunities.

Given the dance program's excellent reputation and Adelphi's proximity to New York City, you will have numerous opportunities to pursue a career in dance. Adelphi graduates have succeeded in many areas of dance, as outstanding performers in ballet and modern dance companies, but also in other disciplines including dance journalism, dance therapy, dance lighting and design, dance on television, and commercial theatre. Other graduates have entered the teaching profession and hold positions in both academic and professional areas.

Graduates have gone on to perform at the:

• Paul Taylor Company
• Joffrey Ballet
• Elliot Feld Ballet Company
• Joyce Trisler Dance Company
• Merce Cunningham Company
• Alvin Nikolais Company
• Pilobolus
• Ballet Hispanico
• American Ballet Theater’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School
• Wong Dance

Broadway boasts many Adelphi graduates in productions, such as Cats, Dancin', Anything Goes, Annie, The Wiz, My One and Only, Sophisticated Ladies, and Kiss of the Spider Woman.

Admission requirements include a mandatory audition of both classical ballet and contemporary dance. Auditions are held in the Performing Arts Center dance studios. Auditions are made by appointment and are held on Mondays and Thursdays throughout the school year. Off-campus auditions may also be available.

The department also offers a minor in dance.

For general information about the program go to the FAQs.


Contact

Adelphi University
Performing Arts Center
Dance Department, Room 149
Beverly Frisk-Fox
Garden City, NY  11530-0701
p - 516.877.4250
f - 516.877.3929
e - frisk-fox@adelphi.edu