Department of Humanities
Partnerships and Affiliations
We prepare our students for careers in dance education and performance through scholarly inquiry, performance opportunities, choreographic projects, master classes, and teaching internships.
The language of dance is universal.
It crosses languages, countries, and cultures. It can be a tool for communication, collaboration, and even change. At Coppin, we work to expose our dancers to a variety of different styles, training, and performance opportunities—and those opportunities wouldn’t exist without our partners.
Some of our partners and professional affiliations include:
- Arts Accredit
- Dance Baltimore
- Hippodrome Foundation
- Maryland Council for Dance
- Arts Educ In Maryland Schools Alliance
- American Dance Therapy Association
- American College Dance Festival Association
- Baltimore County Public Schools Office of Dance
- Dance Education Web
- Dance Educators of America
- National Dance Association
- National Endowment for the Arts
Memberships
The Dance Program currently holds memberships with several regional and national dance education and dance performance organization including:
-
Black College Dance Association
-
Dance Baltimore, Inc
-
Maryland Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (MAPHERD)
Visiting Artists
- Emily Berry
- Return to Goree
- Raw Sound
Contact Us
We are a faculty of artists, educators, and scholars committed to providing our students with comprehensive and diverse core training in dance technique and research.
The Dance Program lives in the Department of Humanities in the School of Arts & Sciences within the College of Arts & Sciences, and Education.