UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance

UNCG College of Visual and Performing Arts
Main Building of the School of Music
Address
100 McIver Street Greensboro, North Carolina  United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	July 1, 2011
Dean	Dr. Peter Alexander
Faculty	100
Number of students	900
Campus	Urban
Website	performingarts.uncg.edu

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts (formerly known as the UNCG School of Music, Theatre and Dance or SMTD) is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the performing and visual arts that is a college within the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, North Carolina. The College requires an audition on top of an application to the University for entry. The College is divided into three separate schools; Music, Dance, Theatre, and Visual Arts. The College offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. Performances for the schools of Dance, Theatre, and Music are held at the black box dance theater, Taylor Theatre, Brown Theatre, the School of Music Concert Hall, and North Carolina College for Women Auditorium (formerly Aycock Auditorium). The School is the largest and most comprehensive performing arts program in North Carolina and one of the largest in the Southeastern United States and the entire country.

The School of Music, Theatre and Dance is home to over nine hundred student majors and over one hundred faculty members. The School of Music, Theatre and Dance was created on July 1, 2010 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with the merger of the already existing School of Music, Department of Theatre, and Department of Dance. The first dean of the school was Dr. John Deal. In 2012, Dr. Sue Stinson became the Interim Dean of the School. The School is separated into five departments: Music Performance, Music Education, Music Studies, Theatre, and Dance. The University's Performing Arts Series is under the authority of the School. It was announced in July of 2016 that the University of North Carolina at Greensboro would be creating The College of Visual and Performing Arts, combining the School of Music, Theatre and Dance with the Visual Arts Department. This move will create four separate schools within the College; a School of Music, School of Theatre, School of Dance, and School of Visual Arts.

Dance was first taught as part of the Women's Physical Education Program at UNCG when the university was known as the State Normal and Industrial School. In 1963, the university created a department comprising four divisions: Health Education, Physical Education, Dance, and Recreation. The Arts Forum had been created in 1943 which brought students and faculty together in painting, music composition, choreography, and writing. Virginia Moomaw was hired in 1945 and became a voice for dance at the Women's College. In 1949 the President of the University of North Carolina, Dr. Frank Porter Graham, approved the Graduate Creative Arts Program which established MFA degree programs in painting, music, writing, and dance. The major in dance was introduced in 1957. In 1970 the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation was formed. In 1980 it was renamed the School of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. In 1984 the instructional divisions were changed into separate departments. In 1989 the Dance Department moved into the Rosenthall Gymnasium and in 1991 became the School of Health and Human Performance. In 2010, the Department of Dance was combined with the Department of Theatre and the School of Music to create the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.