Career Preparation
Krista Kee BFA
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TCU BFA dance graduates pursue careers as performers, choreographers, directors, designers, teachers, somatic practitioners, and dance entrepreneurs across the world. Alumni currently perform or have performed with Atlanta Ballet, River North Chicago, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Eugene Ballet Company, Mark Morris Dance Company and Garth Fagan Dance, to name only a few.
Our graduates also have successful Broadway careers, performing in such musicals as CATS, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia!, Miss Saigon, My One and Only, The Phantom of the Opera, Tanz der Vampire and West Side Story.
You can also find them in Off-Broadway shows, Sleep No More and Then She Fell, dancing at Walt Disney World.
Throughout the School for Classical & Contemporary Dance history, our graduates and alumni have performed with or are still performing with the following companies and organizations:
*denotes company founded by TCU BFA graduate
Anaheim Ballet (CA)
Anastasia Flores Dance Company* (TX)
Arch Contemporary Ballet (NY)
Atlanta Ballet
Atlanta Festival Ballet
Ballet Arkansas
Ballet Idaho
Ballet San Antonio
Bella Lewitsky Dance Co (CA)
Big Rig Dance Collective (TX)
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Co. (NY)
BodyArt* (NY)
Bruce Wood Dance Co (TX)
Caroline Calouche & Dancers (NC)
Central Illinois Ballet
Charleston Ballet
Chattanooga Ballet
Chrysalis Dance Co (TX)
ClancyWorks Dance Co (Washington, DC)
Collage Dance Collective (TN)
Colorado Ballet
Contemporary Ballet Dallas
Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth*
Contemporary Dance Wyoming
Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dance Kaleidoscope (IN)
Daniel Gwirtzman (NY)
Dark Circles Dance Company (TX)
Donna Sternberg & Dancers (CA)
Eglevsky Ballet (NY)
Eugene Ballet (OR)
Festival Ballet Providence
Fort Worth/Dallas Ballet
Garth Fagan Dance Company (NY)
Gathering Wild (GA)
Georgia Ballet
Golden Hour Dance* (NY)
ImPULSE Dance Project* (TX)
Jan Erkert & Dancers (IL)
Jane Weiner/Hopestone (TX)
Jun Wen Yu Dance (WI)
Kansas City Ballet
Kentucky Ballet Theater
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Co (TX)
Kim Robards Dance (CO)
Lingo Dance (WA)
Lydia Johnson Dance Co (NY)
Kansas City Ballet
Li Chiao-Ping Dance Co. (WI)
Louisville Ballet (KY)
Melissa Thodos (IL)
Metropolitan Opera Ballet (NY)
Minnesota Ballet (MN)
Minnesota Dance Theatre
Momentum Dance (Guatemala)
MOMIX (CT)
MorDance (NYC)
Mark Morris Dance Group (NY)
Newfangled (IL)
Noblemotion Dance (TX)
North Carolina Dance Theatre
Orlando Ballet
Paul Taylor Dance Co
Pilobolus (NY)
Project 606* (IL)
River North Dance Co
Sara Rudner (NY)
The Seldoms (IL)
James Sewell Ballet (MN)
Spectrum Dance Theater (WA)
State Street Ballet (CA)
Tallahassee Ballet
tompricedancecompany (NY)
Tristian Griffin Dance Company* (KS)
Visions Contemporary Ballet (NY)
Von Howard Project (NY)
Zion Dance Project (TX)
6 o’Clock Dance Theatre (TX)
NYC Musical Theater and Physical Theater – Broadway/Off-Broadway/Touring
A Chorus Line
Mamma Mia!
Miss Saigon
My One and Only
Phantom of the Opera
Tanz der Vampire
West Side Story
Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights
Third Rail Projects’ Then She Fell
Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More
Radio City Music Hall Rockettes
Theme Parks and Cruise Ship Companies
Walt Disney World
Disneyland
Royal Caribbean International
Celebrity Cruises
Princess Cruises
BFA plus
Some BFA graduates who seek graduate education, minors, double majors or certificates pursue other dance-related careers or professions that build from their comprehensive TCU BFA education. In addition to careers in performance and/or choreography, our graduates have taken many successful career pathways.
Here’s a sampling:
Artistic direction
Chiropractic medicine
Costuming
Counseling
Dance outreach/education (company, K-12, college/university, charter, etc.)
Dance photography
Dance therapy
Dance writing
Development/Fundraising
Expressive arts therapy
Gyrotonic® practioner
Lighting design
Marketing
Massage therapy
Medicine: MD, DO, Chiropractic, PT, AT, OT
Museum education
Nursing
Nutrition/dietetics
Physical/Athletic training
Pilates (we have just launched a 600-hour Pilates Teacher Training Program that partners with the BFA program. *) *limited enrollment
Small business entrepreneurship: studios/centers/companies
Social work
Theater production
Video production
Yoga certification/Yoga studio owners
Click below to see our Pilates Teacher Training Program Information Video
Some career paths require concurrent degree study or post-baccalaureate certification and degrees. A significant number of our graduates have gone on to earn secondary education certification.
Several of our alumni hold MAs, MFAs, PhDs, EdDs, MDs, and various counseling, therapeutic and medical licensures.
Career Services
In addition to meetings with your BFA advisor and mentorship from the SCCD faculty, you’ll have access to a career consultant who works with fine arts students. This person’s expertise working with arts majors is a clear advantage for you. Schedule one-on-one meetings with your career consultant, who will assess and analyze what you need most. Whether you’re crafting a speech or preparing for a job interview, your career consultant is there on the sidelines — pushing you into the game.
Melanie Coulson
Career Consultant to the College of Fine Arts
817-257-2222
m.coulson@tcu.edu
For more information about job opportunities, please visit:
Center for Career & Professional Development