DEGREES

BFA in Dance

ACADEMIC INFORMATION

Number of Majors: 0

Number of Minors: n/a

Number of Graduate Students: 0

Number of Participating Non-Majors: 120

Number of additional faculty: 56

Number of Faculty (Full-Time): n/a

Size of Student Body: 125

Fall Semester Deadline: 1-Nov

Offers a Dance Team

Offers Online Courses

Offers Credit for Life Experience

Offers Study Abroad

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Cost of room & board: $21,940

Undergraduate Tuition (Resident): $58,628

Undergraduate Tuition (Out of State): n/a

Graduate Tuition (Resident): n/a

Graduate Tuition (Out of State): n/a

Percentage of students receiving financial Aid: 85

Scholarships:

Need-based Scholarships awarded

Merit-based Scholarships awarded

AUDITION INFORMATION

Auditions required for placement

Audition Dates: By invitation Dec-Feb

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

Ballet/Pointework

Choreography

Jazz

Modern/Contemporary

Performance

Somatics/Movement Therapy/Kinesiology

Other: Horton

SPOTLIGHT DETAILS

Undergraduate Spotlight Details:
The Ailey/Fordham BFA in Dance degree offers the best of both worlds: the artistic preeminence of the official school of the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, coupled with an exceptional liberal arts education rooted in academic excellence. The four-year BFA program meets the complex needs of today’s dance students, enabling them to develop as highly versatile dancers, artists, and well-educated adults. Students complete a diverse curriculum that includes a carefully designed sequence of dance and liberal arts courses, encouraging students to achieve their artistic and academic potential. BFA candidates are full-time students at both institutions, located in New York City’s Lincoln Center area, the epicenter of the dance world. At The Ailey School, students undertake a broad curriculum of dance techniques, becoming equally proficient in Horton, Graham-based modern, and ballet, and strongly grounded in West African, jazz, and other techniques. Students also develop their choreographic skills and take several yearlong dance-related academic courses, including anatomy and kinesiology, music for dancers, and dance history. BFA students have many opportunities to learn from and perform varied repertory with renowned Ailey School faculty and national and international guest artists. They perform at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, Fordham University’s Pope Auditorium, and in their senior year, at other venues in the greater New York City area. Upon completion of the program, The Ailey School and Fordham University present their students in a fully produced senior showcase. Students train at The Joan Weill Center for Dance, the resident home of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Ailey II. Founded in 1841, Fordham University offers a superior education rooted in the tradition of personal care and deep respect for the individual in all aspects of life: intellectual, emotional, physical, and moral. Fordham's undergraduates at the residential Lincoln Center campus reflect the diversity of the metropolitan area in which the university is located, and students are of all faiths and backgrounds. Students receive a strong liberal arts foundation taught by Fordham’s distinguished arts and sciences faculty. The curriculum includes courses in the arts, social sciences, literature, philosophy, theology, history, and modern and classical languages. There are opportunities to take academic electives and to have an academic minor. Students must apply to both schools separately, via their respective online applications. Based on the dance application, The Ailey School invites students to audition, a requirement for entrance to the program. This program has an application deadline of November 1. For more details visit alvinailey.org/bfa and fordham.edu/bfa.