About Arts at Emory

Performing Arts

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Dance Program

The Emory Dance Program provides a curriculum that interweaves both the practical and theoretical to foster the student's creative, intellectual, and communicative powers in the field of dance. Faculty who embrace the tenets of modern dance, which value individualism, innovation, and interdisciplinary approaches to the arts, seek to develop skilled and uniquely expressive individuals who move and act with intelligence and sensitivity, think independently, and value original thought and diversity. The Emory Dance Program regularly hosts master classes by local and national guest artists, such as Emory Coca-Cola Artists in Residence Jawole Willa Jo Zollar and the Urban Bush Women Dance Company.

The Emory Dance Company and Emory Dance on Tour offer students an opportunity to gain choreography and performance experience as well as direct insight into the dedication involved in the creation and performance of dance. Company performances include annual concerts of faculty works as well as programs directed and choreographed by students. The Emory Dance Company regularly commissions choreographic works and musical scores by local and national guest artists.

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Department of Music

The Department of Music at Emory University offers a wide range of musical experiences in the classroom, performance hall, and studio. Students receive individualized instruction from Atlanta's finest professional artists and performers, including members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Emory faculty offer courses in music theory, history, ethnomusicology, composition, and performance practices. The Music Department offers opportunities for Emory students to participate in chorus, concert choir, wind ensemble, and orchestra, as well as smaller ensembles for winds, strings, percussion, jazz, guitar, and gamelan. Music learning resources at Emory include the Heilbrun Music and Media Library and the Electronic Music Studio

Emory presents a full calendar of student, faculty, and professional musical events throughout the school year. The Emory Coca-Cola Artists in Residence Program and the Flora Glenn Candler Series bring musicians of national and international stature to campus. Recent guests have included the New York Philharmonic, jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis, baritone Thomas Hampson, and the acclaimed Vega String Quartet. The Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta and Thamyris, both in residence at Emory, present the finest in chamber literature and new music and also share their expertise regularly with Emory students.

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Theater at Emory

The Department of Theater Studies is committed to teaching theater as an integral part of a liberal arts education. Unlike many pre-professional conservatory programs, this program requires academically rigorous study as well as hands-on learning in the wide range of sub-disciplines of theater: literature and criticism, playwriting, performance, technology, design, and administration. In-depth courses and laboratory projects allow students to develop more specialized knowledge and skill, but always within the context of this broader understanding, which opens the mind to larger questions of psychology, culture, and history.

The Department has a unique partnership with Theater Emory, our resident professional theater that has attracted artists from across the continent and around the world. The faculty use Theater Emory as a laboratory in which they and selected students can work side-by-side with other professionals to explore the classics, new plays, and workshops addressed to particular questions. The Playwriting Center of Theater Emory creates a viable platform for the development of new work. The Center's programs include the Brave New Works series, featuring play development and readings of new scripts. The Center often commissions new plays and in 2004 spearheaded the national Sister City Playwrights exchange.

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