MFA Dance

Professional Mentoring

Photo credit: Mary Noble Ours
Dana Tai Soon Burgess

Students are assigned teacher mentors specific to their area of concentration within the dance field. Collectively, the faculty mentors offer over 50 years of experience, bringing creative, research, and administrative expertise to the program. Students also partner with recognized artists and art professionals from the diplomatic community and such prestigious organizations as the:

• Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• US State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Organization of American States
• The Smithsonian Institution
• The National Geographic Society
• The National Endowment for the Arts

Photo Credit: Michelle Rattinger (GW Hatchet)
Maida Withers