College of Marin, Dance Department

Indian Valley Campus

Kentfield Campus

Dance Department

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About the Program

Our staff of 6 highly qualified instructors teaches technique classes in beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of ballet, modern, jazz, Afro-Haitian, musical theater, modern ballet, choreography, improvisation, dance history, dancercise, dance production, and dance company. The focus of the program is to train students for performance and/or related careers in dance, and to give all students the experience fo appreciating dance as an art form.

The College of Marin Dance Company presents a dance concert in the spring and fall of each year inwhich chroeographic works by the faculty and guest artists are presented. Tickets are sold through the College of Marin Box Office. Guest artists have included June Watanabe, Marin Ballet, Bay Area Repertory Dance from U.C. Berkeley, David Roxander from the National Ballet of Canada, and the San Francisco Jazz Dance Company.

College of Marin dance students have gone on to such schools and companies as New York University School for the Performing Arts, the Alvin Ailey Summer and Two-Year Dance Programs, Mills College, the Lisa Fain Dance Company and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company.

For additional information on performance events at the College of Marin, please see the Performing and Fine Arts Web Event Calendar at http://marin.hosted.webevent.com/cgi-bin/webevent.cgi?cmd=opencal&cal=cal8

College of Marin is one of 112 public community colleges in California and is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Approximately 10,000 credit and noncredit students enroll each fall and spring semester. Classes also are offered during the summer.

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