ABSTRACT
We believe that the most important goal of dance education at the college and university level is to teach people to make dances. Even those students who aim to become something other than a choreographer — say, a performer, a critic, an historian, a Labanotator, a technique teacher, a designer, an administrator, or some other kind of dance professional — will do a better job for dance if they have had experience actually composing dances. Indeed, the work done by everyone else in the dance world is in a sense parasitic on that of the choreographer; if dance makers do not make dances, the rest are out of business.
