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Dancers Score Major Achievement

The 香港最快开奖现场直播资料 faculty unanimously approved a new major in dance at its November meeting, expanding the fields of study where students can pursue their passions.

“Dance is central to the liberal arts experience,” says Prof. Carla Mann ’81 [dance 1995–]. “It sparks innovation across disciplines through the way it teaches students to interrogate historical, aesthetic, and social issues; to engage kinesthetically with space, time, and movement; to approach solving problems with creativity and rigor; and to pursue productively both individual and collaborative endeavors.”

In January, won an to strengthen its dance program with more classes, more workshops, and now a major. is the only college in Portland that offers a dance major.

Jump for Joy! Wins $800K Grant for Dance

With a leap and a bound, the swift students fly through the new Steiner Dance Studio. Leah Nash

has won an $800,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to strengthen its dance program with more classes, more workshops, and—pending approval from the faculty—a freestanding dance major.

“I am thrilled by what the Mellon Foundation's support will mean for dance at ,” says Prof. Carla Mann ’81 [dance 1995–].

The grant will allow the college to expand faculty positions in the dance department from 2 to 2.5, enabling professors to teach 12–13 courses a year. It also sets the stage for us to offer a dance major—something dancers have long hoped for. will launch a search for a new tenure-track professor to begin in the fall of 2015. After that, the dance department, including Prof. Mann and Prof. , will devise and propose a major. If the faculty approves, would be the only college in Portland that offers a dance major (although Lewis & Clark and Portland State University both offer a dance minor).