At Beloit College, students experience movement in a supportive environment that is also rigorous and positive, offering students many opportunities to work on technique, discover their own artistic voices, and develop their unique gifts.

Our program goes beyond the studio and the stage through theory, history, and interdisciplinary studies. This leads students to discover how the artform is integral to their whole education, applying it to the rest of their creative, professional, and personal lives. 

Dance courses are offered each semester for students at every level of ability and experience. Dance faculty are committed to educating the whole person, to developing not only a dance practitioner possessing artistic capabilities and understanding, but a well-rounded human being.

Dancers trained at Beloit are gifted communicators, experienced collaborators, creative problem-solvers, and agile artists.

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Many opportunities to perform

Be a part of the Chelonia Dance Company, our resident dance group. This all-student company performs each spring, exhibiting the work of faculty, guest artists and students.

Dance at Beloit provides opportunities for students to perform whenever possible. Have a creative idea for a special performance? We encourage you to pursue your vision.

Dream it and do it — that’s what we believe at Beloit.

Social Construction started in Chelonia but moved on to be performed in multiple professional festivals. This dance was performed as part of the Dumbo Dance Festival, the Detroit Dance City Festival, The Going Dutch Festival, and the World Dance Alliance in St. John's Newfoundland in 2017.

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Work with guest artists

Every year, renowned guest artists come to campus to teach, perform, and choreograph dances with students.

Students sometimes also work with other artists off campus. 

Nic Gareiss, who has concertized internationally with many of the luminaries of traditional Irish music, led a student performance combining both dance and live music on stage.

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Dance around the country and world

Faculty include students in their newest works which travel from Russia to Richmond, Newfoundland to New York City, Tanzania to Tarrytown.

Students also study abroad in places like Malta, Moscow, and Jerusalem.

Physical Manifestations of Assent was created for the World Dance Alliance in Angers, France. It was also performed at Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, was accepted to the Gala Concert for the American College Dance Association, performed at the Women in Dance Leadership Conference in Baton Rouge, and invited to perform at Spring to Dance Festival in St. Louis.

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Testimonials

“All of my interactions are important and influential. Beloit is a community. We all work together. I’m happy to have big beautiful open studios to work. The Beloit Experience is educational and unique. It’s a hub of intellectuals who are above average but understand that being average is okay, and the experience is unique to the individual and different from anywhere else in the world.” — Gabriella Garcia’19

“I have worked with many dance majors, minors, and people who are simply interested in and participate in the department. I have also had the opportunity to form invaluable relationships with the dance faculty at Beloit, an opportunity I wouldn’t have gotten at a bigger school. The dance faculty never hesitates to do everything they can to help us succeed in our personal and professional goals. Currently, I am in the process of researching and making a plan for pursuing dance post-grad, and the majority of the connections I have made and am still making are through the dance faculty at Beloit. Beloit College offers a dance program that does both, allowing people to dance because they enjoy it and want to be involved” — Elena Cusack’18