Resources for Students
Scroll down to find information about the following dance-related resources:
Internships and Jobs
Study Abroad
Performance and Creative Opportunities
Summer Dance Festivals and Programs
Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships
Graduate Programs
Professional and Service Organizations
For dance resources specifically related to the COVID-19 pandemic, please look here.
Internships and Jobs
White Bird Dance
White Bird Dance has ongoing internship opportunities within various operations of the organization. If you are interested, please contact any of the Reed dance faculty. For information about White Bird Dance:
Also check out Reed's Center for Life Beyond Reed office:
Study Abroad
DanceJerusalem Study Abroad Program - Jerusalem, Israel
The Hebrew University's Rothberg International School and The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Sarah Lawrence College - Bronxville/Yonkers, New York - Domestic Exchange
Semester or Year
Summer Arts in Berlin through Sarah Lawrence College - Berlin, Germany
Focus in Art and Architecture, Dance, and German language studies.
Contact Paul DeYoung at pdeyoung@reed.edu, or 503-777-7290 (x7290) in Reed's International Programs Office in Eliot 203 with questions about any of these programs.
Performance and Creative Opportunities
Classes at BodyVox
Visit for updated class schedules and special master classes.
Classes at Conduit Dance
Visit for updated class schedules and special master classes.
Classes at Northwest Dance Project
Visit for updated class schedules and special master classes.
Classes at Oregon Ballet Theatre
Visit for updated class schedules and special master classes.
Classes at the Portland Ballet
Visit for updated class schedules and special master classes.
Classes at the Center for Movement Arts
Visit for updated class schedules and special master classes.
Classes at A-WOL (Aerial Without Limits)
Visit for updated class schedules and special master classes.
Summer Dance Festivals and Programs
Check websites of individual festivals for application information, deadlines, and information about college credit.
American Dance Festival
School of the American Dance Festival
Duke University - Durham, North Carolina
Asia Pacific Dance Festival
University of Hawai'i - Honolulu, Hawai'i
Bates Dance Festival
Bates College - Lewiston, Maine
Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop
University of Colorado, Boulder - Boulder, Colorado
Doug Varone and Dancers Summer Workshop
SUNY Brockport - Brockport, New York
Historical and Baroque Dance Workshop (include Commedia dell'Arte)
Florence, Italy
ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival
Vienna, Austria
DanceWEB Scholarship Programme at ImpulsTanz:
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
The School at Jacob's Pillow - Becket, Massachusetts
Now & Next Dance Mentoring Project
Appalachian State University - Boone, North Carolina
San Francisco Conservatory of Dance - William Forsythe Workshop
San Francisco, CA
Seattle International Dance Festival: Beyond the Threshhold
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Skidmore Summer Dance Workshop
Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs, New York
Thodos Dance Chicago Summer Dance Intensive
The Drucker Center, North Studio - 1535 N. Dayton Street, Chicago, IL
Grants and Fellowships
You can apply for these grants directly through Reed.
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Opportunity grant
$1500
Who is eligible: Reed Students
Applications: Late-September, Mid-November Early-March, Mid-June
The purpose of this program is to provide support to undergraduate students in pursuit of academically valuable and pertinent opportunities that arise. These opportunities need not be part of a student's curricular program but should be academically respectable.
Opportunity Fellowship
$3,000-$5,000
Who is eligible: Reed Students in good academic standing
Applications: Early-March
Want to be paid for working with a faculty member over the summer at an another academic institution? Want to participate in an intensive seminar or workshop, but don't have the funds? These are just examples of the kinds of unique academic research opportunities to be funded.
Initiative Grant
$2500
Who is eligible: Reed seniors doing thesis research
Applications: Late-September, Mid-November, Early-March
The purpose of this program is to enhance thesis research opportunities for students by providing modest support for research expenses. A carefully prepared and realistically budgeted proposal is required.
Reed President’s Summer Fellowship
$5000
Who is eligible: Continuing Reed students (graduating seniors are not eligible)
Applications: Early-March
The program supports students to develop a creative and innovative experience that can be carried out over the course of a summer. Applicants are encouraged to consider the high value the college places on critical inquiry, freedom of expression, and exploration of identity.
Kaspar T. Locher Summer Creative Scholarship
$1750
Who is eligible: Continuing Reed students (graduating seniors are not eligible)
Applications: Late-March
The Locher supports independent work in creative writing, visual arts, theater, dance and music will be awarded again this year. Recipients will present the results of their summer projects next fall.
Ruby-Lankford Grant
$4,000 stipend plus research expense budget up to $1,500
Who is eligible: Reed students
Applications: Late-March
The goal of this grant program is to spur and support interactive research engagement of students and faculty in History, Literature, and the Humanities. Proposals are expected to be directed explicitly at scholarly research and not at course development. Student summer stipends are for 10 weeks of research at full-time.
Watson Fellowship
$28,000
Who is eligible: Graduating seniors
Applications: Early-September
The mission of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship Program is to offer college graduates of unusual promise a year of independent, purposeful exploration and travel outside of the United States in order to enhance their capacity for resourcefulness, imagination, openness, and leadership and to foster their humane and effective participation in the world community.
Reed Fellowship for Winter International Travel
$3000
Who is eligible: Continuing Reed students (spring/fall seniors are not eligible)
Applications: Mid-October
The program supports opportunities for travel abroad over winter break to pursue projects that students have designed and through which the student engages with people and experiences that expand the student’s perspectives and his/her multicultural competence.
Student Opportunity Subsidy (SOS) Grant
$2000
Who is eligible: Continuing Reed students
Applications: Late March
Reed Student Senate is funding summer opportunities through the recently created Student Opportunity Subsidy program. Student Opportunity Subsidies are need-aware and can be used to fund unpaid internships, summer research, participation in an academic conference, other constructive summer activities.
$3750
Who is eligible: Continuing Reed students
Applications: Late-March
The Summer Experience Award offers Reed students on an F-1 visa the opportunity to complement their academic studies with a summer internship focused on an area of interest and possible future employment.
Summer Internship Awards
$4000
Who is eligible: Continuing Reed students including graduating seniors
Applications: Late-March
The Summer Internship Awards offer funding to support any summer internship opportunity: public, private, not-for profit, business, entrepreneurial, etc.
Fulbright ETA Program
Who is eligible: Graduating seniors
Applications: Early-September
The English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Programs place Fulbrighters in classrooms abroad to provide assistance to the local English teachers. ETA’s help teach English language while serving as cultural ambassadors for the U.S. The age and academic level of the students varies by country, ranging from kindergarten to university level. Applicants for English Teaching Assistant Programs can apply to only one country.
Fulbright Study/Research
Who is eligible: Graduating seniors
Applications: Early-September
Applicants for study/research awards design their own projects and will typically work with advisers at foreign universities or other institutes of higher education. The study/research awards are available in approximately 140 countries. Program requirements vary by country, so the applicant’s first step is to familiarize themselves with the for the host country.
External Grants, Scholarships, and Fellowships
Graduate Programs
Arizona State University - Hershberger Institute for Design and the Arts
M.F.A. in Dance, and M.F.A in Dance (Interdisciplinary Digital Media and Performance)
Brown University
Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
M.F.A. in Dance
Florida State University
M.F.A. in Dance; M.A. in American Dance Studies; M.A. in Dance Studio and Related Studies
New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Graduate Programs in Dance Education
New York University's Tisch School of the Arts
M.F.A. in Dance; M.A. and Ph.D. in Performance Studies
Northwestern University
Ph.D. in Performance Studies
The Ohio State University
Ph.D. in Dance Studies and M.F.A. in Dance
Smith College
M.F.A. in Choreography and Performance
Stanford University
Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies
Temple University
Ph.D. in Dance, M.Ed. in Dance, and M.F.A. in Dance
Texas Women's University
M.F.A. in Dance; M.A. and Ph.D. in Dance
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (London)
Various M.Phil/Ph.D. research programs, and M.A. and M.F.A. studio programs
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Performance Studies
University of California, Irvine
M.F.A. in Dance
University of California, Los Angeles
M.F.A. in Dance; M.A. and Ph.D. in Culture and Performance
University of California, Riverside
Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies and M.F.A. in Experimental Choreography
University of Colorado Boulder
M.F.A. in Dance
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
M.F.A in Dance, M.A. in Dance, M.A. Ethnology Concentration, and M.A. Dance Education
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
M.F.A. in Dance
University of Maryland, College Park
M.F.A. in Dance; M.A. and Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies
University of Michigan
M.F.A. in Dance
The University of North Carolina Greensboro
M.F.A. in Dance; M.A. in Dance and M.A. in Dance Education
University of Oregon
M.F.A. in Dance; M.S. and M.A. in Dance
University of Surrey (UK)
M.A. in Dance Cultures and Ph.D. in Dance, Film, and Theatre
University of Washington
M.F.A. in Dance
Virginia Commonwealth University
M.F.A. in Theatre Pedagogy and MFA in Theatre Design/Tech
York University (Toronto)
Ph.D. in Dance Studies, M.A. in Dance, and M.F.A. in Dance