Lafayette Gets Grant to Bring Choreography to Classrooms

Lafayette College is one of five area schools that's getting a piece of a $450,000 grant aimed at bringing choreographers to local colleges.

The grant from the Mellon Foundation will fund a program to "explore the use of dance as an art form and how its creative powers can be infused across a liberal arts curriculum," the college said in a news release.

Lafayette is sharing the grant with Cedar Crest, Moravian and Muhlenberg colleges and Lehigh and DeSales universities. The college says the grant runs until the fall of 2016 and will fund short- and long-term artist residencies, classes, workshops, performances, with the goal of "further establishing the Lehigh Valley as an important regional center for dance."