Weber State University's Department of Performing Arts is large enough to provide the atmosphere and motivation you need to excel, and personal enough to enable you to stand out as an individual.

Student dancers, musicians, actors, designers, technicians and teachers learn and train in a creative, supportive environment. The department's combination of Dance, Music, and Theatre encourages collaboration with each other, with other disciplines across the campus, and with the community.

We offer the following:

• Students who major in Dance, Music or Theatre Arts learn and perform in the beautiful Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts.
• Almost 100 percent of our education graduates are offered teaching jobs their first year.
• Opportunities to perform in competition at prestigious venues like the Kennedy Center and at international music festivals.
• Only musical theatre major offered by a state university in Utah.
• Preparation to enter the best graduate programs in the country.
• Dance students choreograph for dance concerts.
• Theatre students design and direct their own shows.
• Opportunities to collaborate with faculty to produce concerts, recitals and stage plays.
• Opportunities to perform with more than 200 performing arts majors in classes, rehearsals and department performances.
• Opportunities to learn from more than thirty full time faculty and staff plus another forty adjunct and part time faculty with experience and expertise in their fields.

What will I learn in the program?

In the Department of Performing Arts, you may study dance, music and theatre.

In dance, you will learn the art and science of movement, expressing every human emotion and awakening the same feelings in an audience.

In music, you will learn to teach, perform, understand, and enjoy music, as well as how to use sound to convey and kindle human emotion.

In theatre, you will learn the art and science of the stage--the hard work and social consciousness that go into the temporary world of a play.

What are the employment opportunities?

• Graduates in Dance are dance educators, professional dancers in companies such Ballet West or Repertory Dance Theatre, choreographers and dance studio owners.
• Graduates in Theatre are theatre educators, professional actors, theatre technicians, designers of lighting, sets or costumes, and directors.
• Graduates in Music are professional performing musicians in organizations such as the Utah Symphony or the Utah Opera, music educators, studio musicians, private music studio teachers, music composers and arrangers and professional conductors