HU/ADF MFA Program 

This innovative 60-credit MFA program offers students an opportunity to immerse themselves for six weeks of the summer in the international, collaborative community of the American Dance Festival, followed by an intimate learning atmosphere at Hollins University and abroad. Few graduate programs can provide students with such imaginative approaches to thinking about dance, alongwith such a wide range of experiences and opportunities, mentorships, and exposure to others in the international dance field.

The program offers a flexible, yet rigorous, course of study. Using the resources of both institutions, the program offers three tracks:

Year Residency Track is for highly motivated students with a strong interest in expanding their knowledge and experience, especially in their creative work, in an uninterrupted way.

Low Residency Track – Two Summer is designed for mid-career artists, teachers, and dance professionals. For two-summer acceptance, applicants must be mature working artists with at least 10 years of experience. Accomplished, nationally recognized candidates may receive up to 12 credits for professional experience.

Low Residency Track – Three Summer is designed for emerging artists, teachers, and dance professionals. This course of study is mapped over three summers to allow for an extended immersion in intellectual and creative experiences. This track is for highly motivated professionals seeking to substantiate their portfolio as they develop their professional careers.
For sample classes offered in each track, see www.hollins.edu/mfadance.

International Residencies

For a portion of the fall or spring term, Year Residency students travel to dance centers throughout the world participating in mentored studio time, the facilitation of a program of creative work, study, discussions, and readings. As part of these in-depth cultural exchanges, students are able to present their work in professional venues while immersing themselves in specially designed study tracks and attending dance concerts. Students study with members of the thriving international professional and academic communities. These residencies open pathways that create lifelong relationships and opportunities. Past residencies have taken place in France, Austria, and Belgium.

Dance faculty members make up a diverse artistic community whose mission is to create an atmosphere in which students and faculty learn alongside one another to expand and deepen their relationship to dance and to the world. Resident faculty members are augmented by visiting faculty and guest artists as well as by a core of adjunct faculty and mentors who reflect a wide range of interests and experiences.

Jeffery N. Bullock, Director
HU/ADF MFA in Dance
Dance Department – Hollins University
jbullock@hollins.edu
540.362.6429

Graduate Center, Hollins University
P.O. Box 9603
Roanoke, VA 24020-1603
hugrad@hollins.edu
540.362.6575