The Reed dance program explores how dance practices both reflect and shape the world. Through work inside and outside of the studio, Reed dancers find fluidity between embodied, written, creative, and scholarly work, and understand dance as a way of approaching salient social, cultural, and political questions.

In addition to the Dance major, the Department also offers interdisciplinary majors in Dance-Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies and Dance-Theatre, as well as a minor in Dance. Beyond the standing interdisciplinary majors, the Dance program highly values collaboration with other departments in the performing arts and beyond.