Musical Theater Dance Portion

cuzinmurray
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:16:01 +0000

I’m wondering how hard the dance portion to Carnegie Mellon’s musical theater department is. I’m a pretty well trained singer, and an okay actor, but dance is not my strongest point.

How much actual dance skill is employed? Is it just following a choreographers directions or are true dance skills (extensions, etc.) emplyed?

How much ballet/jazz terminology do the choreographers use? Is someone with limited dance knowledge able to get by?