鈥淚 know there are so many different things in dance that I could try to do: I could take up ballroom, salsa, teach at a high school in Japan. There鈥檚 so much variety in dance, and most people don鈥檛 really know that. But when you鈥檙e in college, they open those doors for you.鈥
鈥淭he dance program at UL Lafayette showed me there are a million opportunities for work in the field of dance outside of the realm of performance, including teaching, choreographing, arts administration, dance history, lighting, and costuming. UL Lafayette showed me how to find these opportunities, network, and market myself as a working professional in the field of dance no matter which avenue I decide on.鈥
鈥淭he good thing about the small theatre program is they allowed you to do whatever you wanted 鈥 it wasn鈥檛 a free-for-all, but I鈥檇 say like, 鈥業 want to direct a play,鈥 and they鈥檇 say, OK, how can we support you?鈥欌