Gustavus Dance Company

We Create Creators!

The Department of Theatre and Dance's mission emphasizes the value of performance as a vital means of working for social justice and transformative personal development. Students explore new ideas and experiment with techniques in innovative courses, where we seek to understand not only how, but also why we must make art, who we are, and what we mean to say. Students process these questions through multiple opportunities to perform, design, write, craft, build, choreograph, collaborate, direct, and devise in faculty productions and student-led projects.

Theatre and dance are performing arts that present imaginative worlds to the senses. Because they invite us to create, shape, and communicate our understandings of identity and value, they also help us make sense of the world around us. And because they involve us as individuals and as a community in ongoing journeys of making and sharing, forming and performing, viewing and reviewing, theatre and dance also have the power to change lives.

The faculty are committed to sharing the joys of discovery, the rigors of craft, and the insights of criticism. Faculty believe in creating performances that are both challenging and entertaining for our students and for the greater community.