“I don’t think that anything I have learned in dance will help me coordinate traffic signals or design a concrete beam, but I do think that dance has improved who I am as a person by encouraging me to reflect on the impacts of my decisions just as I reflect on the intellectual and aesthetic impacts of decisions in dance. With every dance movement in choreography, I ask myself, ‘Does this make sense? Why?’ I think that these questions should be asked by everyone when they design something, towns and roundabouts included.”
— Elizabeth Sall (BS Civil Engineering, 2003 and former NCSU Dance Company Member) The News and Observer, November 2002

The NC State Dance Program -- one of six arts programs of ARTS NC STATE -- gives students opportunities to study dance through direct experience in choreographic and performance processes. The Dance Program provides a creative environment rich in inspiration, imagination, reflection, and the embodiment of ideas. Dancers at NC State are undergraduate and graduate students majoring in academic areas as varied as biology, design, engineering, and mathematics. These students bring their diverse insights and experiences into the artistic process and contribute meaningfully to the art making.

Please explore our web site for more information on this outstanding program at NC State University!

For more information, email danceprogram@ncsu.edu or call 919.513.7345