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Theatre and Dance
• Theatre management: stage management, arts administration, accounting, marketing, business
management, graphic design
Dance Minor (21 credits):
The dance minor complements the current theatre major and provides opportunities for students in
other majors. The dance minor offers courses in dance techniques, dance history, dance composition,
nutrition, dance pedagogy, and anatomy and kinesiology.
A. All of the following courses:
DA280 Anatomy and Kinesiology for the Performing Artist
DA370 Dance Composition
DA380 Dance History
PE165 Nutrition
B. Two credits from:
DA230 Modern II
DA330 Modern III
DA430 Modern IV
C. Two credits from:
DA240 Ballet II
DA340 Ballet III
DA440 Ballet IV
DA450 Ballet V
D. Four credits of tap or jazz dance:
DA110 Tap I
DA120 Jazz I
DA210 Tap II
DA220 Jazz II
DA310 Tap III
DA320 Jazz III
DA410 Tap IV
DA420 Jazz IV
E. Five elective dance credits
Note: The minor cannot include more than four credits of tap dance and not more than four credits of
jazz dance.
Saint Mary’s Irish dance track is the only university-associated program in the country which prepares
experienced Irish dancers for the certification needed to teach Irish dance. The track provides the
information and experience necessary for dancers to prepare to take the T.C.R.G. (teacher certification)
exam for Irish Dance. The exam consists of both written and performance sections based on thirty
ceili dances; nine set dances; and steps at various levels of difficulty of the jig, reel, hornpipe, slip jig,
single jig, and treble jig. In addition, candidates must be able to recognize over thirty set dance tunes,
naming them, citing the time signature, and giving the number of bars of music in the step and in the
set of each piece. Candidates must also demonstrate their ability to teach a group of dancers anything
which the examining board asks them to teach, from basic solo steps to intricate set dances, from figure
dances to any of the thirty ceili dances found in Ar Rinci Foirne: Thirty Popular Ceili Dances.
Students who do not choose to pursue the T.C.R.G. receive a comprehensive, broad-based perspective
of Irish dance. All the pieces they learned in their past dance training come together with new
information to form a complete Irish dance experience.
The Irish dance component may be chosen as the electives in a dance minor or as courses taken
separately from the minor.
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