School of Dance at FSU

Established over eighty years ago, offering a professional dance major for more than fifty of those years, FSU dance continues to be a pioneer and leader among college dance programs.  The School has a reputation as a center for the creation, reconstruction and production of outstanding dance repertory, ranging from traditional classical choreography to contemporary original works.

A 17 million dollar renovation in 2004 transformed Montgomery Hall, into a state of the art dance facility with six studio spaces, a conditioning studio, costume shop, centers for music and technology, a black box theatre, as well as the fully equipped proscenium Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre which seats 380.  Several concert series are presented annually including Days of Dance, Evening of Dance, and Master Thesis Projects.

The School of Dance is also the home of the internationally recognized dance research center the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreorgraphy (MANCC) (http://www.mancc.org). The mission of this unique and visionary center is to funnel creative activity, capturing the interest in the dance field and encouraging the creation, dissemination and documentation of new knowledge in dance and choreography.