Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Theatre Arts and Dance
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Dance
Faculty
Co-chairperson: Patrick Damon Rago
Professors: Scott T. Heinzerling, Judith M. Scalin
Associate Professor: Patrick Damon Rago
Assistant Professor: Teresa L. Heiland
Mission
Loyola Marymount University’s Dance Program is committed to the belief that all people can dance and that each person can dance many dances.
Dancing educates and enlivens the body. Movement experience, which is designed to purposefully integrate the physical act of dancing with the working of the mind and the flow of life energy and spirit, has potential to educate the whole person. Through studying dance as art and dance as cultural and personal experience, the life of a human being can be lived with integrity and vitality. Students come to know themselves so that they may better communicate with an understand people who not only travel similar paths but also those who come from widely diverse backgrounds.
The Dance Program at LMU is committed to the application of rigorous and excellent physical training; ongoing authentic personal reflection; and thoughtful, critical analysis of aesthetic, scientific, historic, cultural, and pedagogical issues as they relate to dance and movement studies. The Dance Program is, likewise, committed to the power found in celebration, imagination, joy, and practiced discernment.
Dance majors earn a B.A. degree and are well prepared for advanced study in graduate school as well as careers in performing, teaching, and related work in the fields of business and health care.
The Dance Program is housed in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and offers coursework for the Dance major (in a general track or performance track), the Dance minor, and for the student who wishes to pursue dance as an elective or general education. The program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Dance.
Theatre
Faculty
Co-Chairperson: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Associate Chairperson and Production Coordinator: Katharine M. Noon
Professors: Diane Benedict, Charles E. Erven, Katharine B. Free, Beth Henley (Presidential Professor), Ron Marasco, Judith Royer, C.S.J.
Associate Professors: Katharine M. Noon, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Programs
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