The Department of Dance offers graduate study leading to the Master of Fine Arts in Performing Arts—Dance. The program offers graduate students the opportunity to hone technical skills, to explore personal intuition, imagination, and craft both in creating and performing dance works, and to focus on critical areas of dance theoretical core studies.

The MFA in dance at UWM consists of 60 credits with an emphasis on contemporary choreography and performance. The program is structured to meet the scheduling constraints of working dance professional performers, choreographers and educators as they earn a MFA in Performing Arts-Dance. The MFA degree program at UWM offers a balance of theoretical, creative and practical coursework with the goal of preparing future university dance faculty as well as providing secondary educators with the means to expand their dance and choreographic skills while increasing their earning status in K-12 public and private institutions.

UWM Dance faculty members have performed with internationally renowned dance companies such as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company, Ohio Ballet, Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve and Jennifer Muller/The Works. The Dance Department is also home to Ko-Thi, a nationally recognized African Dance company, and Ferne Caulker-Bronson, the company’s founder and Artistic Director, is a Professor of Dance. Our students represent a cross-section of talented contemporary dance choreographers from New York City, San Francisco, Milwaukee and the Midwest region.

To find out more about this summer's graduate class, click here

Click here to download the MFA Handbook (word format).

For further information:
Simone Ferro, Director of the Graduate Program
(414) 229-4178
sferro@uwm.edu