Dance Workshop 2025
presented by the Queensborough Community College Dance Program Department of Health, Physical Education and Dance
Date: Thursday, May 8th and Friday, May 9th at 8pm
QCC Dance Majors performing Hip Hop, West African and Modern Dance. Featuring choreography by guest artists and faculty members: Quilan (Cue) Arnold, Robert Battle, Kevin McEwen and Nicole McClam and original works by QCC Dance Majors.
Location: Queensborough Performing Arts Center
Tickets: Free for QCC students, $10 general admission
Purchase tickets at the door on the evening of the performance, or in advance at the QPAC box office on the ground floor of the QCC Library, or over the phone at 718-631-6311
Why major in dance at QCC?
The QCC Dance Program offers somatics training to build technical excellence, leading guest artists in the field, and full-time faculty who are working artists!
Somatics: All of our full-time faculty are experts in somatic techniques (Bartenieff Fundamentals and GYROKINESIS®), which form the foundation of their approach to dance training. This groundwork increases your range of motion, helps you achieve technical virtuosity and expressiveness, equips you to avoid injury and allows you to dance safely long into the future.
Guest Artists: Every year our students perform a piece by Robert Battle, Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a piece by at least one other guest artist. Our students have performed works by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (Urban Bush Women), Kyle Abraham, Jennifer Archibald, Step Afrika! Marjani Forté Saunders, Paul Taylor, Keith Thompson and others.
Full-time Faculty Who Are Also Currently Working Artists: All of the full-time faculty are working artists who have active performing and choreographic careers in New York and tour internationally. Students have extensive one on one time with the faculty in addition to their classes. It allows the faculty to prepare the students for what is currently happening in the field. It deepens their ability to mentor and guide students into careers that the students’ desire as well as connect students with other artists in the field who match their career goals.
QCC Dance Program Student Handbook QCC Dance - Associate in Science degree (AS)
Mission Statement
Revised June 2024
The mission of the QCC Dance Program, which is housed in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Dance, is to provide rigorous training in dance. The program prepares students for transfer into BA and BFA programs in both dance and dance education, professional training programs, or to take their next steps toward a career in dance. The program prepares dancers for lifelong careers in dance or dance related fields. We foster an appreciation and exploration of dance that stems from multiple cultural heritages. The program advocates and promotes dance as a performing art and as an avenue to achieve a physically active and healthy lifestyle.
Vision Statement
Created June 2024
The Queensborough Community College Dance Program is an open admissions program that serves all levels of dance students from those taking their first dance class to those with extensive training. Students receive training based in up-to-date scientific research and somatic practices with personal attention to the development of their individual instrument. This program values all dance genres. Students are exposed to a variety of guest artists in different dance forms and to the dance resources in New York City. The dance program knits together a supportive community of educators and students that values differences of opinion, critical thinking, and intellectual humility.
