Date of Award
Spring 2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Department
Exercise Science
Director of Thesis
Jennifer Deckert
First Reader
André Megerdichian
Second Reader
André Megerdichian
Abstract
Most collegiate sports athletes participate in compulsory athletic strength and conditioning; however, such requirements are not prevalent in university dance programs. Designed as arts degree programs, most requirements revolve around technique, history, pedagogy, theoretical understandings of composition, rehearsals, dance anatomy, and in certain cognates, education. The growing incorporation and paradigm shift of dance as a sport, as well as an art, supports the inclusion of collegiate dance programs into similar considerations, regulations, and requirements as competitive collegiate sports teams. As such, this is an argument and recommendation for the inclusion of athletic strength and conditioning in collegiate dance programs.
First Page
1
Last Page
22
Recommended Citation
Phillips, Samantha, "The Collegiate Dancer as an Athlete: An Argument for Athletic Strength & Conditioning in Collegiate Dance Programs" (2022). Senior Theses. 559.
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/senior_theses/559
Rights
© 2022, Samantha Phillips