05/22/2026
At UTEP, we are not only training dancers for performance careers—we are helping shape artists, leaders, educators, scholars, choreographers, and creative professionals prepared to move across many worlds.
Students in our department gain opportunities to perform, choreograph, teach, research, collaborate across disciplines, engage with community, and build professional experience while earning their degrees. Watching graduates and current students step into spaces like professional sports, concert dance, theatre, education, and creative leadership reminds me how important it is to create environments where artists can grow fully as people.
If you are looking for a program where rigorous training, mentorship, creativity, scholarship, and community all matter, there is space for you here.
The next generation of artists is already emerging at UTEP Department of Theatre and Dance 🧡⛏️