Prepare to dance professionally at the highest level
You will find a rigorous studio experience and excellent instruction at the UArts School of Dance. Our faculty will guide you as you strengthen your body and refine your technique. As a dance major at UArts, you will also go beyond technique and explore the full expressive potential of dance – its beauty and power, elegance and athleticism.

UArts offers four bachelor's degrees in dance and one dance certificate:
BFA in Ballet
BFA in Dance Education
BFA in Jazz Dance
BFA in Modern Dance 
Certificate in Dance
UArts also offers a Pre-College Summer Institute Dance Intensive for high school students who are considering a degree in dance.

The best dance facilities at any university
The main studios are located in the renovated Terra Building. These spacious, bright, and well-lit dance studios are fully equipped with:
- Barres and mirrors
- Huge windows
- Pianos
- Audio consoles
- Safe, comfortable dancing surfaces: floors are constructed with four-inch, state-of-the-art suspension
- Lockers, dressing rooms, showers, and lounges adjacent to the studios

Study on the Avenue of the Arts – in the heart of Philadelphia Arts
Take a few steps out of your classroom and you are immersed in the larger, unparalleled classroom of the City of Philadelphia.  Our neighbors are:
- The Kimmel Center: home to the Philadelphia Orchestra and PHILADANCO, the city’s leading modern dance company
- The Academy of Music: home to the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet
- The Wilma Theater: home of Philadelphia’s annual DanceBoom! a festival of contemporary dance

As a dance degree candidate, you bring talent and spirit, we teach you the rest
When you graduate, you will have broadened and solidified your technique, danced in a full range of styles, and executed complex choreography with great consistency.

Performance is at the heart of UArts’ School of Dance 
Extend yourself further – through multiple performance opportunities. You can appear in ensemble productions each semester in the 1800-seat Merriam Theater and in the more intimate 200-seat UArts Dance Theater. You will also perform in student composition concerts and student-staged senior dance concerts. You can also perform in concerts featuring original choreography and in repertory concerts, in which classic dance works are re-created.

Believe that dance can become your career
Graduates of the School of Dance have performed with these prominent companies:

• Alvin Ailey
• The Joffrey Ballet
• Jose Limon
• Bejart
• Rumble
• Momix
• PHILADANCO
• Cirque du  Soleil
• River North Dance Company.
• Broadway productions: Movin’ Out, Cats and Brigadoon
• Film and video productions
• Musical reviews on cruise ships or in cabarets
• Others teach dance, pursue advanced degrees, choreograph, or establish their own companies