Job Description:

The Syracuse University Department of Drama seeks to hire a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Dance for its Musical Theater Program. The position will teach a variety of levels and styles of dance applicable to contemporary musical theater performance and may also choreograph and/or direct productions for the department. The department seeks candidates whose personal and professional experience, teaching, and creative activity contribute to the advancement of equity, aesthetic diversity, and cultural wealth. Further, successful candidates will enhance the department's capacity both to honor and to cultivate the contributions of those communities that have historically been under-represented or underserved in performance training and/or the performing arts. The Department is committed to the development of a curriculum that responds effectively to the artistic needs of an ever-changing profession, and that prepares a diverse array of students to assume leadership roles. Continued professional creative work and/or research, as well as service and committee work for the Department, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, and the University is expected. The position begins in Fall 2021.

For further information, contact Professor Andrea Leigh Smith, Search Committee Chair. alsmit11@syr.edu.