Dance Major Journal was founded in 2010 in the dance department of the University of California, Irvine. It features writing focused on the interests, issues, experiences, and concerns of dance majors, aimed at sharing information, research, advice, and points of view.
DMJ welcomes conversational writing style, personal essays, new formats, humor, stories, and “answers for dance majors” (ways to explain to the outside world the value and facts of a dance education), as well as academically sound essays using clear language and lively prose.
Current Issue, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2023
Dance Major Journal 11
Dance Major Journal 11
Can Body Positivity and Dance Coexist?
Pulido, Ari
Reclaiming Black Spaces in Jazz Dance
Hicks, Mercedes
Need a Day Off? Who Decided Dancers Don't?
Acciacca, Gianna
I am Queer and a Dancer
Torres, Cierra
Dance for the Mind and Body...and for Medicine
Bao, Huiyi
You can't standardize salsa dance so that one (sexy) size fits all
Brito, Gabriela
I Couldn't Have a Future in Science without My Past in Dance
Waldvogel, Katie
Is it okay to tell a dancer their arms look like a dead chicken?
Duran, Lauren
Are you Enough?
Chapman, Emily
The Worst Break Up: Falling out of Love with Ballet
DePalatis, Isabela
Is dance disrespected in media portrayals?
Cohen, Naomi Giavanna
Ballet: It's Not That Serious. It Was Never That Serious
Mertens, Emma Giselle
Dangerous Disordered Eating Patterns in Dance Need to Change
Simmons, Eleanor
Why Ballet Teachers Shouldn't Teach Hip Hop
Duesler, Madelyn
Struggles of a (former) Hip Hop Hater
James, Emily
Why Dancers Should Start Thinking of Being a Rhizome
Xiong, Julian
Why every college student should take a dance class
Allen, Veronica
I gave the dancers the freedom to improvise...and they choreographed
waters, danniel
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