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...Dance Program at Brown, for example, struggles with providing a balanced dance education and maintaining sufficient staff size for both its curricular and extracurricular branches...
While the Harvard Dance Program no longer has an issue of space, it does face an issue that Yale rectified with the creation of its dance studies curriculum, now in its fourth year...
...We’re still just a program. We have a curricular program but we’re not a department,” says Kristin Aune, assistant dance director at the Harvard Dance Program. “Even if our students dedicate half of their lives to dancing, it’s still in this extra-curricular category.” Aune went on to point out that there are many Universities around the country that have successfully incorporated dance into the academic field of study and produced positive results...
Over the past several years, Harvard has begun to offer a few dance-related courses for college credit and has introduced a secondary field of study in dramatic arts, but there is still no major dance presence in the curriculum. The leadership of the Harvard Dance Program continues to express a desire to see more dance classes offered for credit in the coming years...
Students in the Harvard Dance Program had their own take on the program’s situation. “I think it’s hard because most people coming to Harvard have chosen Harvard because they want to do other things beside dance. There’s a reason we chose Harvard over a conservatory,” Stoller-Lindsey says. “The more they incorporate into the curriculum, the more we’ll be able to fit dance into our schedules...