OVERVIEW

Program Overview

Commercial Dance (P106) is a 12-month certificate program graduating professional triple-threat dancers ready for a career in commercial dance.

FULL DESCRIPTION

This intensive 12-month Commercial Dance program provides you with the performance skills and marketability necessary to work in the vast field of commercial dance. A graduate has the ability to dance, sing and act, enabling a performance career in music videos, musical theatre, cruise ship performance and more.

Dance training is in jazz, hip hop and ballet combined with in-depth acting, vocals and chorus repertoire. Career management and personal marketing skills combined with polished performance technique will launch your professional commercial dance career.

STUDENT SELECTION

Entrance requirement is dance training at the intermediate jazz level with training in additional dance forms as a significant asset. Prospective students must pass an audition in jazz as well as an interview.

To learn more about the audition process, visit Dance Auditions.

Program Learning Outcomes

The graduate demonstrates the ability to:

1. Perform jazz and hip hop dance technique to professional standard in choreographed solo and ensemble productions.
2. Perform chorus repertoire technique, memorizing and reproducing long movement sequences integrated with vocals, to professional standard in commercial ensemble productions.
3. Sing at a professional standard using pulse, rhythm, meter, dynamics and accurate pitch in solo and ensemble presentations.
4. Create and perform artistically expressive dramatic characterizations in a dance context at a professional level for solo and ensemble productions.
5. Present self professionally at auditions and in industry environments through resumés, biographical backgrounds and photographs during commercial and academic interviews.
6. Develop self-knowledge and reflective practice to make informed artistic, pedagogical, personal development and career choices within the performing arts industry.
7. Exercise critical thinking skills to peer evaluate performance, mentor creativity and innovate to inspire projects, peers and students.