Dance
As a dance major at Cornish, you’ll combine rigorous training with creative freedom. Develop the healthy and sustainable practices you’ll need to be a working dancer. Immerse yourself in a curriculum centered on technique, collaboration, improvisation, screendance, choreography, and performance. Learn from faculty members who have mastered multiple forms of dance and pioneered their own. Join a community of collaborators and innovators shaping the Seattle dance world, and beyond.
BFA in Dance
What Will You Learn
as A Dance Major at Cornish?
The dance program at Cornish prepares you to perform, choreograph, direct and teach dance. You’ll know your history and you’ll develop the skills to speak and write about dance.
Spend an average of 6 to 8 hours each day in the studio, with a minimum of 13 hours of technique classes per week. Perform both choreographed and improvisational works.
Refine your technique in contemporary dance styles, jazz, modern, and ballet. Additional elective technique classes offered each semester. Learn the fundamentals of technical production and design. Choreograph and create performance pieces for both real-world and digital spaces.
See BFA Degree Requirements and Model ProgramExplore Your Major
Student Work
Senior Solos
Playlists cultivated by the Cornish Dance Department.
Student Choreography
Visiting Artists
Victoria Watts
Department Chair
Alfonso Cervera
Assistant Professor of Dance
Meg Fox
Technical Director
Melanie George
Visiting Artist
Wade Madsen
Professor
Deborah Wolf
Professor
Lucie Baker
Instructor
Corrie Befort
Instructor
Liz Corwin
Instructor
Erricka Turner Davis
Instructor
Claudette Evans
Instructor
Alice Gosti
Instructor
Amy Lambert
Instructor
Brian Lawson
Instructor
Markeith Wiley
Instructor
Faculty Emeriti | Dance
Pat Hon, Professor Emerita | 1978 – 2018
Lodi McClellan, Professor Emerita | 1995 – 2020
Michelle Miller, Professor Emerita | 1995 – 2020
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