Music Editing?!?

Well since I am a dance education major, I was thinking about what technological resource would be beneficial for my field of study. I thought that learning how to use Audacity would be a great tool to learn. I am in a field where music is key, and very seldom do you choreograph a dance to a whole song. So learning how to cut and mix songs would be very useful. Yes there are professionals who cut music. But maybe I will be in a school where there is not a lot of money for things like cutting music, and I will have to resort to doing it myself. My goal with learning how to use Audacity is to not just learn how to cut music, but learn how to do all the little nick naks and tricks that the program has to offer. I think maybe for this project I will try and do things that I normally probably wouldn't use in a performance piece. But that way I can get the practice using all the tools. I am actually very excited to learn how to use this program because I really honestly see me using this not just in my future years of teaching. But right now while I am still in my college years!! So I guess we will see how it goes!! But I think this will not only be a fun program to learn how to use, but also very beneficial.