• The B.A. has two areas of concentration: Contemporary and Flamenco. Students who choose the Flamenco concentration will be advised to participate for two summers in the annual Flamenco Festival held on the University of New Mexico campus each June. 
  • The program also offers minors in Dance, Flamenco, and World Dance. Auditions to be accepted as a Dance major are the last Saturday of January. Faculty dance concert and guest artist auditions are mandatory for all dance majors and are held Tuesday evenings. Dance majors are required to perform in these works if cast.

    • Dance Program Mission

    • The mission of the Dance Program at The University of New Mexico is to promote healthy physical practices in dance, encourage artistic exploration that can successfully encompass interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches to performance, enhance critical thinking skills that connect theory and practice, and provide an educational landscape that develops multicultural academic and artistic perspective. 
    • The Dance Program endeavors to create knowledgeable and skillful dancers, guiding student academic and career goals to align with student affinities and abilities. The vision of the program is to provide the most current, experimental, and sophisticated choreography curriculum and productions in the southwest, and to explore and value the rich tradition of dance history as a living legacy for the contemporary artist/scholar. 
    • The program promotes and utilizes national and international faculty connections for student academic and professional experience while offering theatre and dance.
    • The University of New Mexico Dance program offers a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance, a Master of Arts degree in Theatre and Dance with an emphasis in Dance History/Criticism and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance. 
    • The B.A. and M.A. degrees prepare students for further study both in and out of academia and for careers in the Dance field as artists, scholars, teachers and professionals. The M.F.A. degree is designed to serve a small and select population of emerging artists wishing to prepare for professional careers in performance, choreography, and teaching.