Relate Theater to your Minor or other Major

Relate Theater to your Minor or other Major (if applicable). As you’re learning, theatrical language, practice, technology and theory pervade all aspects of life, business and culture. Talk about how what you’re learning this semester is relevant to your other major, to your career goals and to your chosen discipline. We’ve talked about how theater relates to sports, politics, culture, psychology and so on. How does theater relate to nursing? To marketing? To creative writing? To engineering and science? To communications? Ask yourself a simple question: how can I connect my theater learning to the career future I see for myself? (500 words min).


Dance and Journalism

I am an Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Major (musical theater major) with a minor in dance. In the fall of 2010 I will be picking up a minor in journalism. Both of these minors will help me further my chances of gaining a job in the theater world. Dance relates to my major for obvious reasons. I decided to pick up a dance minor so I could study movement more intensively. At auditions for musicals you are required to do a dance audition. By picking dance up as a minor, I will be put ahead of those who have not had the formal training for the various dance styles. Dance also helps your posture and the way you move on stage.
  Because I am a dancer, in my stage movement class, different exercises we do are so much easier for me because I know my body well and I know where my center of gravity is. Knowing where your center is helps, again, with posture and it also helps one walk more smoothly, gracefully, and quietly on stage. It will also help in fight scenes when you have to fall and get up quickly. It makes these actions very smooth. I also have been having a lot of physical troubles with my knee. This is starting to distract me from my work and it often limits activities for me. Dancing every day will help build my quad muscles which will in turn, help strengthen my knee. It will also help me become more physically fit overall.


Journalism, at first, may not seem like it could relate to a potential job for me in the future, however, I love to write. I love to write critiques and reviews for shows. When I was in high school, I was on the school newspaper, I wrote for the newsletter, and I wrote for our local newspaper The Indiana Gazette. During this learning process of writing for papers, I realized I love to investigate, research, travel, and experience new things and write about them or share them with others. Ever since I was young, I loved to watch the Travel Channel and watch Samantha Brown. She was, in a sense, a broadcast journalist. She was also an actor. She would travel all around the world and do segments on different hotels and cities and such. This would be such an amazing job and I believe If I become involved in journalism here on campus and eventually even communications media (yeah, a triple minor) that I may one day be able to be the next Samantha Brown. I also believe journalism will help be expand my creative writing skills that I am currently lacking. Expanding my creative writing skills will hopefully allow me to even be able to write skits or help with my play analysis.

Having a dance minor and a journalism minor relate to theater because they relate to musical
theater, choreography, movement, analysis, reviews, critiques, and even play writing. I really hope that picking up this minors will help me with my future aspirations and help me gain a job somewhere in the theater world.