Master of Art in Liberal Studies

Areas of Concentration: Dance Theory and Practice

These are some examples of programs of study that other MALS students have pursued in the past. They are meant to give you a sense of the kind of program that you might create with us. Each program of study includes courses taken as one-on-one independent studies with Skidmore faculty, traditional graduate-level courses taken in classrooms at universities across the country, as well as the required introductory seminar. Our students also earn credit through transfer of prior graduate credit, supervised internships, and assessment of prior experiential learning.

• Program Focus: Ballet History & Repertory

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Classical Ballet: Theory and Practice
  History of Ballet
  Studies in Dance: Movement Theory
  Kinesiology
  Internship: National Museum of Dance
  Baroque Music
  20th Century Ballet History
  19th Century Ballet History

  Final Project:
  “Mythological Intertextuality in Nineteenth Century Ballet Repertory”

• Program Focus: Ballet History & Repertory

  Coursework
  Master’s Seminar
  Bharata Natyam – Technical Study
  Theory of Bharata Natyam – Aspects of Dance
  Theory of Bharata Natyam – Aspects of Music
  Sanskrit and Tamil: Ancient and Contemporary Languages
  Modern Indian Dance
  Philosophy of India
  History of Southern Asia to 1200 CE
  Role of Women in Indian Dance

  Final Project:
  “Bharata Natyam in Contemporary Society: A Revitalization of Traditional Philosophy and Dance”