The department offers as many as 14 concerts every year, providing dance students with numerous opportunities for performance and choreography. Each year the University of Iowa Dance Company performs Dance Gala on campus, and since 1986, the department's touring company, Dancers in Company, has given students an opportunity to perform in Iowa and surrounding states.Dance faculty members regularly present their choreography in national and international venues, giving University student performers the opportunity to further develop their performance skills. Periodic master classes with noted guest teachers, choreographers, and touring companies add diversity to the dance experience.The department is one of three academic units in the Division of Performing Arts. Students have the opportunity to earn a major in dance and a second major in one of the other units within the division—music or theatre arts. It also participates in offering the division's Certificate in Performing Arts Entrepreneurship.