Buffalo Department Theatre and Dance

About Buffalo Department Theatre and Dance

Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo engages emerging artists, scholars, and audiences dedicated to sustaining and innovating the performing arts across disciplines. Our diverse programs integrate rigorous training, critical understanding, and impassioned creation supported by close faculty mentorship and developed in collaboration with internationally recognized guest artists.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

• BA in Theatre: UB’s Theatre BA program includes study in a broad range of theatrical disciplines covering the artistic, literary, historical, and technical aspects of theatre and performance, while encouraging students to design their curriculum around a specific focus in production or scholarship. The flexibility of the degree allows for an open exploration and adaptability based on a students’ unique area of interest.
• BA in Dance: The UB Dance Program is a nurturing and challenging artistic community where Versatility Matters. We value education fueled by performing and teaching experiences that prepare students for a variety of careers in the professional world of dance and beyond. Our BA and BFA programs include comprehensive training in modern, ballet, tap and jazz, along with coursework in choreography, pedagogy, somatic practices, Laban Movement Analysis, history and criticism, research, dance kinesiology, improvisation, music theatre dance, and social dance.
• BFA in Dance: The UB Dance Program is a nurturing and challenging artistic community where Versatility Matters. We value education fueled by performing and teaching experiences that prepare students for a variety of careers in the professional world of dance and beyond. Our BA and BFA programs include comprehensive training in modern, ballet, tap and jazz, along with coursework in choreography, pedagogy, somatic practices, Laban Movement Analysis, history and criticism, research, dance kinesiology, improvisation, music theatre dance, and social dance.
• BFA in Music Theatre: The Music Theatre program at UB encompasses the ever-widening spectrum of theatre arts, ranging from performance art to opera, and including Broadway musicals, cabaret, and dance works. Our Music Theatre program embraces all of these forms including the research and creation of new works of music theatre and the re-envisioning the classics for the twenty-first century.
• BFA in Theatre: Design and Technology: UB’s BFA in Theatre, concentration in Design and Technology degree is for students interested in developing specific skills and who are willing to commit to structured, intensive, studio-based training. The cornerstone of UB’s Design and Technology program is practical application alongside supportive lecture. We provide students with challenging opportunities to learn in the classroom, and to apply that learning through hands-on experiences. In the classroom, you learn to recognize your inspiration, develop your ideas, and communicate your vision; in the Center for the Arts, you work with professionals to execute those ideas in production.
• BFA in Theatre: Performance: The Theatre Performance BFA program at UB integrates artistic experiential training and interdisciplinary study to transform students into engaged, versatile, and skilled theatre artists prepared for professional careers in the performing arts. Supported by close faculty mentorship, students train in acting styles and methods for both stage and film, from classical to contemporary, in addition to directing, voice, mime and movement, circus skills, audition techniques, dance, voiceover, and poetic text.
• Minor in Theatre: The Minor in Theatre at UB offers study in a broad range of theatrical disciplines covering the artistic, literary, historical, and technical aspects of theatre and performance. Minors take a core curriculum in the fundamentals of theatre, and then choose from a wide variety of courses in their specific areas of interest, including acting, directing, dramaturgy, stage management, theatre studies, or design and technology. We do not have a Dance minor.

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