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Art History alum designs new Jennifer Hasso is an unlikely champion of dance. Although she loves dancing and took classes as both a child and an adult, she preferred gymnastics and cheerleading in her teen years. Rather than a dance degree, she holds a Master’s in Art History from UWM.
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Jennifer Rose Hasso is the architect of City Colleges of Chicago’s new associate’s degree in dance, and its n 2012 UWM Art History graduate. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Hasso.)
Nevertheless, she’s become the architect of both the City Colleges of Chicago’s new associate’s degree in dance and its partnership with the Joffrey Ballet. Since the program began in the fall of 2018, City Colleges has become one of just three schools in Illinois, and the only one in Chicago, to offer an associate’s degree in dance.
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“The responses have been really great. Last semester, we started the program at 65 percent capacity,” Hasso said. “Particularly within the dance community, people have been so warm and welcoming. We are providing more equitable dance education.”
