| The Department of Dance |
|
Tainan Woman's College
of Arts and technology |
| Due to the need of dance professionals
in southern Taiwan, the Program of Dance, included in the Department |
| of Music, was established in 1971. In 1991 the Program
of Dance eventually became the Department of Dance. |
| For more than thirty years, the Department has fostered
dance professionals and extended its social educational |
function of dance. |
| The Main goals of the Department of
Dance are: 1. To train professional dancers; 2. To foster choreographers;
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| 3. To teach theories of both Chinese and
Western dances; 4. To extend the social/educational functions of |
| dance. |
| The Department has eleven full-time and fourteen part-time faculty members: among them there are one |
| professor, three associate professors, one assistant professor, twenty lecturers, and one assistant lecturer |
| (accompanist). There are 10 dance studios, one experimental theater, one costume room, and one visual/audio |
| center that has a rich collections of dance music and dance video tapes. |
| The Department now consists of four different programs and has 349 students: There is a Five-Year Junior |
| College Program, involving 79 students in two classes (this program will be closed after the last class graduated |
| in the year of 2004); a Two-Year College Program, involving 86 students in two classes; a Four-Year College |
| Program, involving 83 students in two classes (the first two classes of this new program), and a Seven-year High |
| School-College Continuous Program, involving 101 students in three classes (the first three classes of this new |
| program). |
| Dance department encourages students' creativity and enriches their experiences though performing and |
| practicing. Performances are the means that we connect with the public, and students are our most valuable |
| assets. The Dance Department provides dance performances and educational programs for the students, and has |
| been associated with various associations, financial groups, and non-profit organizations through different |
| projects, which provide teachers and students opportunities to carry out their creative plans and to materialize |
| their choreographic ideas. For example, our senior students have their internships at the Han-jar Kindergarten |
| before their graduation, and the performance at the Lu Er Man Ten Ho Temple has become an annual event that |
| brings joy and understanding for both the department and the community. |