Music and Dance Building (MDB)
The Music and Dance Building is Hampshire’s hub for music and dance performance. Two dance studios, a recital hall, soundproof practice rooms, a recording studio, and a music library provide countless opportunities for your creativity to flourish amidst a supportive community of students, faculty, and staff.
Music Program
Hampshire’s Music Program is unique in its approach to music performance, scholarship, composition, theory, and improvisation. Hampshire College's music program encourages students to engage in an interdisciplinary process to understand music as a creative expression and its role in culture.
Hampshire’s music offerings include topics in ethnomusicology, musicology, popular music, jazz, and electronic and computer music as well as courses in improvisation, composition, and music theory. Students are also encouraged to take a wide range of courses through the Five College consortium.
Dance
Students can concentrate in specific areas such as choreography and performance; dance history and criticism; or somatic studies; or combine dance with other fields such as theater, film, anthropology, psychology, kinesiology, education, or religion. Final projects might involve choreographing and producing a concert of original work, or undertaking in-depth research and writing.
The Hampshire Dance Program and Five College Dance Department have a very active program for students interested in other applications of dance studies or related fields as well, including such areas as dance and technology; somatics and expressive arts; dance education; and community outreach.
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