Theater and dance
About the Theater major
Union offers students accessible and unique theater opportunities. Campus productions have featured Waiting for Lefty, Peter Pan, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Many join Mountebanks, the nation’s oldest student-run theater group, founded in 1912.
Students can pursue one-term internships with professional theater or dance companies or participate in productions at Proctors, a historic local theater.
Winter mini-terms include London, with performances, backstage tours, and workshops, or Bali, focused on intensive performing arts studies.
About the Dance minor
Whether you are a beginner or an experienced dancer, take individual dance classes or pursue a minor, Union is the ideal place to embrace the art of dance. You will thrive in a collaborative, close-knit learning environment with professional dance faculty who emphasize discipline, experimentation and creativity for all students.
Our multifaceted program offers various levels of technique classes in modern, ballet, jazz, hip hop and more. Students gain an in-depth understanding of how the body moves while obtaining an increased understanding of proper alignment and flexibility.
Courses and requirements
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Requirements for the minor
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Facilities
The Henle Dance Pavilion, a 7,000-square-foot facility overlooking Jackson’s Garden, is a center for classes, rehearsals, workshops, performances and other events. It features a 2,200-square-foot dance studio and 1,000-square-foot lobby that doubles as rehearsal space. The 20-foot ceilings in both spaces safely permit lifts and aerials. The pavilion also includes a costume shop, faculty offices, meeting rooms, gallery and storage space.
After Union
- Actor and director of learning and education, Arizona Theatre Company
- Actor, director, writer, producer, New York City
- Analyst, Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group
- Analyst, Goldman Sachs
- Assistant director, Arizona Theatre Company
- Casting agent, New York City
- Director and writer, Hollywood
- Director of communications and marketing, Jewish Arts
- M.F.A. candidate in stage management, University of California, Irvine
- Postdoctoral Fellow in psychology, Albany Medical Center
- Stage manager, Saratoga Shakespeare Company