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2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog

Dance Joint Major

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The dance major prepares dancers to move, create, analyze, write about and evaluate dance as an expression of the individual, of culture and of history. Students practice moving as a way of knowing, and through a range of courses experience dance as a mechanism for social change, for empowerment, for art-making, and for community-building.

Theatre and Dance Department Faculty

Professor Jennifer Conley, Chair

Brian T. Silberman
Professor of Theatre

Pamela Vail
Professor of Dance

Rachel Anderson-Rabern
Associate Professor of Theatre

Jennifer L. Conley
Associate Professor of Dance

Julia Kamanda
Adjunct Instructor of Theatre

Emily Liberatore
Resident Costume Designer

Robert Marenick
Resident Technical Director

Jacob Sikorski
Resident Scenic and Lighting Designer, Adjunct Instructor of Theatre

Rachel Strayer
Adjunct Instructor of Theatre

Joanna Underhill
Adjunct Instructor of Theatre

Joint Major Requirements:

A joint major in Dance and another field may be developed in consultation with the Dance program director and a faculty advisor from the other field. Joint majors must complete 30 hours of technical crew work.

Note:

Students seeking admission to graduate school in dance should consult with faculty advisers about additional courses to further prepare them for that direction.

Off-Campus Study:

Students wishing to study off campus should consult with dance faculty members and the Office of International and Off-Campus Study.

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