"Assistant Professor - Dance - Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies"

The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position in the area of Dance practice, performance, choreography, and scholarship.

The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) teaches performance as a mode of critical inquiry, innovation, creativity, knowledge production, and public engagement. Within our active experiential learning spaces, our students develop strong analytical and technical capacities. Our graduates are uniquely equipped to bring a just, creative, interconnected, and relational approach to the pressing challenges of our time. We believe that the making and sharing of public performance plays an essential role in a healthy and just society.

We embrace our mission and foreground social justice by striving to: foster a climate of trust and belonging in all of our spaces and activities; embrace collaboration and experimentation as core methodologies for our work; investigate and honor a diversity of historical and cultural perspectives; develop generative, ethical, and reciprocal relationships with surrounding communities by sharing resources, knowledge, and creative opportunities; offer productions that are relevant, meaningful, and accessible to members of the UC Berkeley community and beyond, and engage the arts to build more just and equitable futures.

Duties: Responsibilities will include pursuing a professional creative/research agenda; teaching courses at the undergraduate, and occasionally the graduate, level in the department's dance technique, choreography, practice, performance, and dance and performance studies curricula; directing undergraduate concerts; mentoring and advising undergraduate and graduate students; and participating in departmental activities and administrative service at college and campus levels.

The department is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia.

Department: https://tdps.berkeley.edu/

Division: https://artshumanities.berkeley.edu/

Qualifications: Basic qualifications (required at time of application): BA or BFA (or equivalent international degree). Additional qualifications (required at time of start): A minimum of 1 year of college teaching experience, and at least 4 years of professional experience. Preferred qualifications: Preference will be given to candidates with an MFA or MA (or equivalent international degree); extensive professional experience; who possess a strong track record as a choreographer and movement researcher/practitioner; with college teaching experience and an ability to engage in a diverse community with varying disciplines that constitute a rich theoretical and practice curriculum; with demonstrated administrative, artistic mentoring, and producing experience; who are working, in part or in full, beyond Euro-American concert dance traditions (namely modern dance or ballet), in areas such as: African/African American, Caribbean, Latine and Latin American, Indigenous, Middle Eastern (MENA/SWANA), South/South East/East Asian, street dance, popular dance, social dance, folk forms, and diasporic practices; who maintain an active creative/research agenda, and who can demonstrate an ability to help build the national and international profile of the department.

Application Requirements: Document requirements: Curriculum Vitae; Cover Letter; Statement of Teaching; Statement on Service; Sample of Creative Work - I; Sample of Creative Work - II; Sample syllabi (Optional); Authorization to Release Information Form. Reference requirements: 2-3 required (contact information only).

Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $80,800-$128,700 (9-month academic year salary).

Anticipated start: July 1, 2026. Application Window: Open date: June 24, 2025. Next review date: Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Final date: Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time).