2016-17 Season

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"Anatomical Maps and Territories: Embodiment Practices and a Body of Knowledge” explores embodied anatomy and kinesiology as a starting place for conversations about relationship, inter-connectedness, subjectivity and community.

An artist’s labor is necessary and constant, yet packed with uncertainties. This workshop lives in the terrifying space between the aspirational (dreams, wishes) and the practical (goals, time). Janani Balasubramanian is a writer of speculative fiction whose art and editorial work has been featured in The New Yorker, Guernica, and elsewhwere.

Iconic street dancer Rokafella discusses women in hip-hop culture, screens her documentary film about B girls, and teaches classic hip-hop dance moves in this master class.

John Jasperse conducts an open rehearsal with Princeton student dancers of his 2014 work "Within between" followed by a Q&A with the choreographer and his stager Stuart Singer

Dance students perform a diverse concert of works by guest professional choreographers in this annual festival

Internationally-recognized master teacher and head of the Horton Program at the Ailey School, Forsythe teaches the technique of Lester Horton as part of the spring dance course, "Dance Techniques of the 20th Century." Open to Princeton students only.

Martha Graham Dance Company Rehearsal Director Denise Vale leads a master class on the technique of Martha Graham as part of the new spring dance course "Dance Techniques of the 20th Century." Open only to Princeton students

Solo artist, teacher, rehearsal coach, and former principal dancer with the José Limón Dance Company, Risa Steinberg leads a master class on the technique of José Limón as part of the new spring dance course, "Dance Techniques of the 20th Century." Open only to Princeton students.

Certified Dunham Technique Instructor Marcea Daiter leads a master class on the technique of Katherine Dunham as part of the new spring dance course, "Dance Techniques of the 20th Century." Open only to Princeton students.

A dance class that explores the traditionally gender-binaried, exclusive culture of ballet class, radically re-imagining it as a site of liberatory, joyful, and inclusive queer play. Workshop open to Princeton students, faculty & staff.

Dance seniors Emily Avery, Erin Berl, Dana Fesjian, Naomi Lake, Tiffany Miller, Alex Quetell, Paige Shaw, Clare Sherlog, Lauren Wodarski, and Crystal Yao present their own new choreography and perform repertory works by master choreographers

Students working in dance, writing, theater, music or visual art present new interdisciplinary work developed through collaboration with other artists and mentorship from dance faculty

An event that builds and deconstructs a party to reveal the dissonances propagated in the human pursuit of technology and progress. Themes of nature, classism, and oppression bubble up from chthonic depths like fresh champagne in this multimedia production.