Experience Dance and Music at NC State

The Department of Performing Arts and Technology is where NC State students of any major cultivate and explore their creative interests—no matter where they lead. Through our courses and programs, students grow as performers, develop entrepreneurial skills, learn new ways to enhance their art form using technology and gain an understanding of the theory, history and cultural significance of both dance and music.

Whether you’re a mover, musician, performing arts enthusiast or innovator, your artistic passions will thrive at NC State.

Practice and Perform

Our dance companies, music ensembles, minor programs and affiliated student organizations are open to all students at NC State—regardless of major. Grow as a performing artist in a thriving music and dance community.

Perform with us 

Study With Us

Whether you want to earn a degree in music technology, take your study further with a minor, perform on stage or find a course that satisfies your major’s GEP requirements, we are here to help you follow your interests where they lead.

Explore our academic programs 

Find your Pack

Join one of more than a dozen student organizations devoted to dance or music—both performing and non-performing. Explore your interests with fellow students as you make life-long memories and friends.

Explore our student organizations 

Connect With Us

At NC State, our student-performers come from every college on campus to perform in our dance companies, music ensembles, study music or arts entrepreneurship, and find their community.

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“[The department] is genuinely one of the happiest communities I’ve ever been a part of. Everybody in the department is there because they care about making music with other people.”

Anna Lee, ’22

Founder & President, Music Theory Club
Minor in Flute Performance

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Wind Ensemble Concert

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 │ 7:30 p.m. │ Stewart Theatre 

On the Air: A Podcast Conversation (ft. Wes Parker)

It isn’t every day that you hear a familiar voice on a podcast. Hosted by Howie Ledford, the North Carolina Music Educators Association’s NCMEA Podcast examines various topics relating to music education. The podcast’s most recent episode features none other than Wes Parker. Parker is a teaching professor, director of jazz studies and conductor of… 

Student-Choreographer Layla El-Khoury Receives Robert E. Stewart Engineering Humanities Award

The American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has named student-dancer Layla El-Khoury, the 2023 recipient of the Robert E. Stewart Engineering Humanities Award for her choreographed piece, “Force of Flows.” 

Inspire Lifelong Performing

When you support the Department of Performing Arts and Technology, you’re providing resources that enable NC State students to continue learning and performing now and into the future, just like these Power Sound of the South® alumni.

Join our passionate alumni community in their commitment to the student-performers of NC State by making a gift to the Dance or Music Enhancement Funds.

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