The 2025 Spring Dance Festival, Threshold, celebrates new choreography by and performances featuring Princeton dance seniors.
“Base of Joy” by senior Kate Stewart is an exploration of the resilience, effort, and perseverance required to sustain joy. Through a fusion of different dance styles and music, the piece delves into the tension between struggle and pleasure, revealing that joy is not merely felt, but is earned, fought for, and continually rediscovered. Performed by Emma Cinocca ’27, Isabel Matthews ’26, Maddy Mejia ’26, Aunyae Romero ’26, Braeh Simon ’26, Kate Stewart ’25, Olivia Taylor ’26.
“Crystalline” choreographed and performed by senior Adam Littman Davis, is a solo contemporary dance study in self-possession and liberty, beginning in extended silence and concluding with a variation on the second movement of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata No.21 (Op. 53), played by Vince di Mura.
Guest choreographer Tamisha A. Guy has choreographed “BeComing,” a new solo work to be performed by senior Madison Qualls that asks the question: How do you know if you’re on the right path in life, when that path is more like a river, flowing and shifting, sometimes calm and sometimes wild?
Lecturer in Dance Davalois Fearon has choreographed a new solo work performed by senior Moses Abrahamson. “Fragmentation” explores the tension between stillness and motion, presence and absence, as the dancer moves through the ruins of a world left behind. Created in response to Kay Sage’s The Instant, this solo work navigates shifting forms and incomplete movements, blurring the boundaries between structure and decay. Through movement, it grapples with the act of rebuilding—piecing together remnants of the past to construct something new, yet never whole.
Guest choreographer Matthew Neenan has choreographed a new contemporary ballet duet, “Contest,” for seniors Ethan Arrington and Paige Sherman. Nothing’s ever wrong with a little healthy competition between peers. This combative yet friendly duet between two equally matched colleagues pays homage to Dvořák’s frisky and vibrant Piano Trio No. 2 in G Minor.
Tickets & Details
The performances are free and open to the public; free tickets required.
Reserve tickets through University Ticketing
Directions
Get directions to the Hearst Dance Theater, located on the Forum level of the Lewis Arts complex.
Accessibility
The Hearst Dance Theater is an accessible venue equipped with assistive listening devices. The performance on April 4 at 7:30 p.m. will feature open/live captioning (CART). Visit our Venues and Studios section for accessibility information about the arts complex. Guests in need of access accommodations are asked to contact the Lewis Center at LewisCenter@princeton.edu at least one week prior to the event date.
