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Berry College's only Dance Company
Continuing a student's passion for dance
The Berry College Dance Company has trained and helped students grow their passion for dance. The company prides itself on creating a space perfect for students to learn new dance skills, practice the art of choreographing, and discover more about the roots and history of dance and the variety of dance movement types. The dance company requires that students audition for the variety of dances in the concert. About 20-30 students are chosen, depending on the size of the concert and each individual dance, and choreographers and students have about 10 weeks to rehearse before opening night.Â
Students also have the opportunity to minor in dance at Berry, taking a variety of 19 credit hours that enhance a student's opportunity to grow their passion for dance.
Meet us!
Get to know the staff of faculty and students that help run the dance program.
Sara Pecina
Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance and Director of the Dance Program
Sara Pecina is the Director of Dance and Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Berry College. She received her MFA in Dance from the University of Oklahoma and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Dance from Western Kentucky University. Performance highlights include Cedar Point Live Entertainment in Sandusky, Ohio, and dance concerts in Civitavecchia, Italy, at Jazz Dance World Congress, and at tap dance festivals in St. Louis and New York City. She has taught a variety of forms of dance in the university system and private sector in Indiana, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, and guest taught at the American College Dance Association Regional Conference. Her academic research focuses on jazz and tap dance history and pedagogy and the oppression of historically African American art forms. She has presented this research nationally and internationally at various dance conferences including both the National Dance Education Organization and the Dance Studies Association annual conferences. Sara is a certified mat Pilates instructor and has also trained to teach Dance for Parkinson’s Disease with Mark Morris Dance Group and is in the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Rhythm Tap Teacher Program.