MDT
Music Dance Theater

The Music Dance Theatre (MDT) major at Brigham Young University is a cooperative program of the College of Fine Arts and Communications and the College of Health and Human Performance. The Music Dance Theatre major is a unique integration of the disciplines of Music, Dance, and Theatre. The School of Music and the Departments of Dance and Theatre and Media Arts have combines their resources to create a nationally accredited course of study leading to the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Carefully designed by these three departments, classes feature an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to stimulate the highest level of professionalism for the student who desires to pursue a career as a professional singer, actor, and dancer.

• Private/group voice instruction in belt, mix and classical
• Music Theory
• Dance technique: ballet, modern, jazz, tap
• History of music dance theatre
• Acting: musical scene study
• Acting: basics for stage
• Auditions and the business
• Musical theatre choreographic styles

Each year musical theatre stage productions, major spectaculars, recordings, convention shows, and international touring companies provide opportunities for MDT majors to combine classroom and workshop training with practical on-stage experience in preparation for a professional career.