THE COLLEGE OF MARIN DANCE PROGRAM

The college of Marin dance program offers an Associate of Arts degree in dance.

Our staff of 9 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. 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.