Dance Department students have access, by audition, to a variety of performance opportunities throughout their careers at Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Mason Gross Dance Presents

Mason Gross Dance Presents is a series dedicated to the production of repertory by internationally renowned guest artists including Bill T. Jones, Pavel Zustiak, and Ananya Dance Theatre. Dance majors have also participated in performances of guest artist repertory in regional venues such as The Joyce Theater and the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, both in New York City, as well as State Theatre New Jersey and the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The Dance Department also has a vibrant lecture series that has included internationally prominent scholars and artists such as, Wendy Perron, Sandra Horton Fraleigh, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Halifu Osumare, Rose Eichenbaum and Anne Cooper Albright.

Dance Plus

The department’s biannual faculty and guest-artist production. Produced at the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center in fall and at the Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater in spring, this concert has featured dance majors performing the works of internationally renowned guest artists such as Michelle Manzanales, André Zachery, Chuck Wilt, Niall Jones, Trisha Brown, and Camille A. Brown, among others.

BFA SENIOR SOLO/DUET CONCERTS

BFA, BA, and dance minors perform original works of choreography in the fully equipped Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater and Loree Dance Studio Theater.

University DanceWorks

University DanceWorks is the touring student dance company of Rutgers. Dance students learn the repertory of internationally renowned artists each fall and then perform these works and lead workshops while on tour in the spring, visiting middle and high schools in the metropolitan region.

Student Dance Festival

BFA students exhibit the culminating choreographic events of the curricula. Performances are produced in the 360-seat Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater and in the Loree Dance Studio Theater.