Dance

Performance Opportunities for Students

Performance Opportunity Workshops:
Explore Spring’s Senior Dance Projects

Rising seniors in the Program in Dance will discuss their senior independent choreographic projects and hold workshops to introduce prospective cast members to their choreographic processes. Senior choreographic projects offer a great opportunity to perform during the spring 2024 semester in interesting new works exploring a wide range of genres, ideas and techniques. Be prepared to move, meet other dancers, and have fun!

Schedule

Sept. 5 + 7, 4:30-6:20 PM in Hearst Dance Theater — Workshops with rising seniors Olivia Buckhorn, Mei Geller, Ive Jones, Isabel Kingston, Ethan Luk, Chris Park, Jasmine Rivers, Storm Stokes, and Dany Tajes

Each workshop will be followed by cookies and conversation. Open to all interested students, no registration required.

Read more information about each project

 

Princeton Dance Festival

The Festival, held each year in late fall, is the program’s major event of the year. Students prepare throughout the fall semester for this performance which is presented in the 350-seat Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Repertory and new works by professional choreographers and faculty are staged on students either through a fall course or through extracurricular rehearsals with guest choreographers. In past years, students have performed the works of Kyle Abraham, Robert Battle, Camille A. Brown, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Francesca Harper, Bill T. Jones, Mark Morris, Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, and Pam Tanowitz. Professional lighting and costume designers collaborate with the Lewis Center’s production team to present one of the Lewis Center’s essential performance events.

Dance Placement Class

Want to perform in Princeton Dance Festival? Students of all class years interested in performing in the Princeton Dance Festival (December 1-3, 2023) through a course should plan to attend Dance Placement Class on September 4, 2023, at 3 p.m. in the Hearst Dance Theater. The class is not an audition; class is mandatory for interested dance students. Register for Placement Class (form can also be completed at the class)

Students enrolled in the following fall 2023 Dance Performance Workshop “B” section courses* will perform in the Princeton Dance Festival:

  • DAN 319 B — Dance Performance Workshop with Brian Brooks (Mon./Wed., 4:30-6:20 PM)
  • DAN 320 B — Dance Performance Workshop with Shamel Pitts (Mon./Wed., 4:30-6:20 PM)
  • DAN 419 B  — Dance Performance Workshop with Catherine Cabeen, staging Bill T. Jones’ work (Mon./Wed., 4:30-6:20 PM)
  • DAN 420 B — Dance Performance Workshop with Donna Uchizono (Tues., 1:30-4:20 PM)

*Students in DAN 319, 320, 419, and 420 must also take a Choreography Workshop “A” section. Your “A” section will be confirmed following the placement class and you’ll be able to enroll on September 5.

Please email Dance Program Associate Cindy Rosenfeld at cr17@princeton.edu with any questions.

Guest Choreographer Auditions for 2023-24

Want to perform in Princeton Dance Festival but can’t take a dance course? Audition to be in a guest choreographer’s work! Students may audition for all opportunities but would only be cast in one. These works will be performed at the Princeton Dance Festival, December 1-3, 2023.

Guest Choreographer Auditions will be held Saturday, September 9.

 

Senior Dance Productions

Seniors in the Program in Dance can satisfy their independent work toward a minor in dance by choreographing new work, performances, or through scholarly research. These productions take place mainly in the spring semester and are supported through faculty and guest artist advisors and design teams and by the Lewis Center’s production department. Seniors choreographing new work cast their pieces from students both in and outside the dance program, providing students an opportunity to work with a senior in the realization of their vision for new choreography; sometimes the seniors choose to create these works in collaboration with their casts. Seniors electing to do a performance are matched with guest or faculty choreographers to perform a new or repertory work — often a solo, duet or small ensemble piece.

Some of these works are part of the spring senior collaborative dance concert presented in the Berlind Theatre or state-of-the-art Hearst Dance Theater in the Lewis Arts complex, while others are presented as individual productions, some of them as site-specific works. Most or all the seniors in the program perform together at the end of the spring in a repertory or new work choreographed by a guest choreographer.

 

Past Performance Opportunities

See photos, video trailers, and view information on guest choreographers and works performed at past Princeton Dance Festivals on our season archive pages.

 

In this video, discover how the Program in Dance reimagined its annual Princeton Dance Festival in 2020 for a socially distanced world during a global pandemic with the help of faculty, choreographers, and participating students living throughout the United States and abroad.