Career Preparation and Alumni Accomplishments
Our holistic approach and broad professional training prepare our graduates for successful livelihoods as performers, choreographers and teachers in the dance profession. Our alumni are especially successful in creating opportunities by forming their own companies, producing concerts, initiating teaching programs, and exploring collaborative and cross-disciplinary interests.
Cornish alumni work in many areas of the dance profession from performance, choreography and teaching to related fields such as body therapies, conditioning techniques (including Pilates and Gyrotonics), costume design, arts administration and technical production. Dance Department graduates and former students have performed with prominent companies including the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group, Shen Wei Dance Arts, American Ballet Theater, Ballet Hispanico, Peter Pucci and Dancers, Spectrum Dance Theater and the Pat Graney Dance Company. Our graduates have produced their choreography at Seattle's On the Boards and Velocity Dance Center, and in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, Dance Space Center, and other centers for innovation. Locust, d-9, the Three Yells, Northwest Dance Syndrome and Better Biscuit Dance are among the Seattle dance companies founded by Cornish dance alumni.
Cornish alumni have also succeeded in graduate studies at such respected programs as Ohio State University, University of Arizona, University of Utah, University of California/Irvine, California State University/Long Beach and SUNY/Brockport.
For information about Dance Department alumni accomplishments, please read the Alumni section of our Department Newsletter (600KB PDF).
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