The Cornish Institute of the Arts in Seattle, Washington, offers a Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree in dance. This degree allows students to participate in performance and choreography opportunities through Cornish Dance Theater, the school's dance ensemble. Cornish's Department of Dance also sponsors the New Moves concert, an annual show featuring student choreographed dance pieces. Senior students have opportunities to demonstrate choreographed pieces at their senior recitals.
Frequently known as UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles offers a Master of Fine Arts degree in dance. This master's degree allows students to specialize in dance choreography. UCLA requires its dance choreography students to produce a dance concert in the third year of the program. This program allows students to choreograph class pieces and teach choreography at local Los Angeles schools. This concert features dance pieces choreographed by the student. After the show, the student must provide an oral dissertation, or an explanation of the importance of the concert's material.
Located in Fairfax, Virginia, George Mason University offers a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in dance through its College of Visual and Performing Arts. Undergraduate dance students may pursue an emphasis on choreography. Dance students studying choreography must take four semesters of choreography intensive classes such as improvisation, choreography and composition. During their senior years, these students must produce a series of choreographed dance pieces, which will be judged by the Dance Department's faculty members.
Marymount Manhattan College's campus is located in the Upper East Side neighborhood of New York City and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance with a choreography concentration. This bachelor's degree permits students to solely focus on the art of dance choreography. Some of the program's courses include improvisation, choreography for American musical theater and dance composition. Marymount's dance choreography program also requires students to compose solo and group dance pieces.
Westchester County, New York, is home to Purchase College, State University of New York, a school with a graduate program in dance choreography. This program is a Master of Fine Arts degree through Purchase College's Conservatory of Dance. The list of first-year classes includes studio pedagogy, choreography and dance production. At the end of their last semester, students must present in the graduate concert, which features their choreographed dance pieces.