Dance
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School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
BFA
Full-Time, Part-Time
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Designed to inspire, develop and enhance creative and critical thinking, the curriculum in AMPD's Department of Dance fosters deeply embodied and intellectual learning. Canada's largest and most comprehensive dance program educates innovative, thoughtful and articulate dance professionals, prepared to be engaged leaders in diverse environments.
Program Structure
Dance students take a common first year and then branch into one of two streams according to their interests and goals. Upper-year students may audition to join the department's resident company, the York Dance Ensemble. They also have the opportunity to gain hands-on training in lighting design for dance, to embrace emerging media and integrate technology into their dance practices, and to extend their professional experience through field placements, collaborative research and guest teaching.
Streams
Choreography/Performance
This stream centres on studio work in contemporary/modern dance, with options in urban, contemporary/ballet and world dance forms. Students acquire specialized knowledge and skills in movement observation, production and performance, informed by an understanding of choreographic elements and principles, somatics and embodied storytelling. they learn to create and present original works in a variety of performance spaces incorporating professional production values and contemporay media technologies.
Dance Education
Students in this stream explore practical and theoretical aspects of teaching dance in a variety of communities and settings, including innovative approaches and experience working with children, youth, adults in all stages of life, marginalized individuals and people with disabilities. Graduates are prepared to enter the field as educators in recreational, community-based and private settings.
Featured Facilities
- Five spacious rehearsal studios
- Two choreography studios
- Black box dance theatre-studio
- A 600-seat thrust stage
- Strate Dance Studio Theatre
- Pilates conditioning equipment
- Extensive costume collection
- Audio and video recording facilities
- Extensive library collection of dance books and periodicals
- Dance-specific computer software and peripherals
Sample Schedule (First-year)
- Contemporary/Modern Dance Forms
- Fundamentals of Physical Practice
- Dance Production
- Dance Studies: An Introduction
Possible Career Paths
Explore what you can do with your degree- choreographer
- performer
- movement therapist
- dance teacher
I am a high-school student
I have completed at least one year of full-time study at college or university
I have been away from high-school for at least two years
I have never studied in a formal academic high-school environment
Returning / Reactivating student (previously York)
Visiting Students
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
Baccalauréat Français
Minimum Requirements
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
- A maximum of 30 possible transferable credits may be granted for successful completion of the Baccalauréat Général. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
- A maximum of 30 possible transferable credits may be granted for successful completion of the Baccalauréat Général. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
Bachillerato
Minimum Requirements
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- Minimum overall result of “Bien/Buena/Bueno/Good” on all academic courses.
- Some programs require a higher GPA.
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
CAPE
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- A minimum overall average of 3 out of 7 is required. Higher grades required for certain programs.
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
- CAPE 2-unit courses, with results of 3 or better, are eligible for transfer credit, up to a maximum of 18 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
- CAPE 2-unit courses, with results of 3 or better, are eligible for transfer credit, up to a maximum of 18 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
- Extra courses will be assessed for transfer credit. Applicants with the DEC may be awarded up to one full year of transfer credit.
- Extra courses will be assessed for transfer credit. Applicants with the DEC may be awarded up to one full year of transfer credit.
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
Chinese High School
Minimum Requirements
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Turkish High School
- Some programs require higher. Please review the requirements for your program below.
- Prerequisite courses should not be below a grade of 4.0 or 70%.
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires minimum %cutoff.turkey% average in the final year of senior studies.
GCE
Minimum Requirements
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
- GCE A2 examinations with results of "C" or better, are eligible for transfer credit, up to a maximum of 18 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
- GCE A2 examinations with results of "C" or better, are eligible for transfer credit, up to a maximum of 18 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. Minimum of two Advanced-level (A-level) passes and three GCSE or IGCSE Ordinary-level (O-level) passes. Minimum average of “C” is required on Advanced-level and Ordinary-level passes. Higher grades required for certain programs. GCE A2 examinations with results of "C" or better, are eligible for transfer credit, up to a maximum of 18 credits. To gain admission to this program, minimum average of C is required.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of C.
Hong Kong
Minimum Requirements
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
International Baccalaureat
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- IB Diploma with passes in six subjects: three passes at the Standard-level and three passes at the Higher-level, or two passes at the Standard-level and four passes at the Higher-level
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
- Transfer credit is granted for IB courses with Higher-level final grades of 5 or better, to a maximum of 30 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
- Transfer credit is granted for IB courses with Higher-level final grades of 5 or better, to a maximum of 30 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. To gain admission to this program, minimum IB diploma point scores of 28 is required.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires minimum IB diploma point scores of 28.
Indian High School
- Some programs require a higher average. Please review the requirements for your program below.
- Prerequisite courses should not be below a grade of 55%.
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- All-India Senior School Certificate (AISSCE)
- Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC)
- Indian School Certificate (ISC)
- Intermediate Examination Certificate
- Pre-University Examination Certificate
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires minimum %cutoff.indian% average in XII.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
OUAC code YB
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- June 15, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
To be considered a mature student, you must:
Be at least 20 years old by the end of the calendar year of admission to the University
Have been out of full-time high school studies for at least two years or have returned to upgrade after a two year absence
Have attempted less than one full year of studies at an accredited university or college
Have demonstrated potential for success through academic, professional or volunteer activities and other accomplishments
- June 15, 2020, for Fall 2019 entry
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- June 15, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
Tawjihyah
Minimum Requirements
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
United States High School (including AP exams)
- Grade 12 graduation with a minimum overall average of "B" on Grade 11 and Grade 12 academic courses is required to be considered for most programs. Some programs require a higher average. Please review the requirements for your program below.
- SAT or ACT scores are not required for students studying in a recognized accredited US curriculum outside the United States, Puerto Rico or Guam.
- SATs/ACTs are considered in combination with high school grades.
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
- AP College Board examinations are eligible for transfer credit, for results of 4 or 5, up to a maximum of 30 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
- AP College Board examinations are eligible for transfer credit, for results of 4 or 5, up to a maximum of 30 credits. Please click here, then click “Transfer Credit Requirements” for details.
Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires minimum %cutoff.us% GPA on Grade 11 and 12 academic courses.
West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) or National Examinations Council (NECO)
Required Documents for Preliminary Review
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
BFASchool of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
Requirements for admission:
- February 5, 2020, for Fall 2020 entry
Admission to this program depends on a combined assessment of your academic average and a supplementary evaluation. The admission average required for this program is in the mid-70s.Maintaining your offer of admission to this program requires a final academic average of 75.
You are required to provide official evidence of academic achievement in secondary education. This can be demonstrated through:
- Final grades under the Ontario curriculum (obtained through correspondence, night school or through TVO)
- Credentials through other curricula, such as results from Advanced Placement (AP) or Advanced-level courses in the General Certificate of Education (GCE). (Students may register to sit for the AP and GCE examinations as private candidates.)
In the absence of final grades in courses:
- You must submit the results of standardized tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) with a minimum combined total of 1170 on the Critical Reading and Math components or a composite American College Testing (ACT) score of 24.
- Your application will be reviewed by an admissions sub-committee. If admitted, you will not be eligible for entrance scholarships. You will be considered for continuing student scholarships at the end of your first year of study, if you satisfy those criteria.
You may also be required to provide proof of language proficiency. You will be considered for entrance scholarships on the basis of your overall averages in the six 4U/4M (Ontario curriculum) or equivalent courses.