The Dance Program offers dance experiences that meet the needs and interests of the many and diverse students who choose Bryn Mawr and Haverford College. It welcomes the newcomer as well as supports the continuing progress of trained dancers.
The program offers a range of technique courses in different styles and genres of dance, multiple performance ensembles, courses in composition and choreography, and dance studies courses that introduce students to dance as an exciting area of research and inquiry. In addition to other opportunities such as the School Performance Project and Summer Study program, the program further enhances student experiences in dance by taking advantage of the College's proximity to the lively dance and arts scene in Philadelphia, and by offering master classes and workshops with regional, national, and international artists. Learn more about the program.
End of Spring Semester 2019 Student Projects
Senior Tali Laurence (above) presented her senior choreographic project in May, along with senior Sophia Silver. Juniors Aubrey Donisch and Genevieve Legowski performed their Advanced Choreography dances and the Dance Composition course had a showing of final projects.
Bryn Mawr and Haverford dancers took to the stage in the works of five Philadelphia and regional choreographers, and in a reconstruction of the seminal 1953 work "Tensile Involvement" by iconic 20th-century choreographer Alwin Nikolais.
The Diasporic Body: Black/African Release, Restoration, and Revival
This performance and dialogue was the final event in the College's 2019 Community Days of Learning and used movement traditions of the Black and African diaspora, as well as video, textual, and participatory elements to explore states of oppression and portals to revival and restoration for all who traverse daily racism.
"The Backyard" with Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock
This performance piece, performed during the spring, was inspired by PA RT, an improvisational dancework performed by iconic dance artists, Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson (1978-2002), and re-conceived/re-embodied by Philadelphia dance artists Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock in an intensive residency with the original dancers. For more information, click here.
Dylan Hoffman Senior Choreographic Project
A Torah School dropout turned Yiddishist, a Conservadox Jew, a cultural Jew, and one Quaker comprised this spring performance, which blended dance, Yiddish song, Hebrew prayer, flowing water, and hot oil, exploring a generation's possibilities of defining Jewish continuity for themselves.
Madeline Cantor
Director
mcantor@brynmawr.edu
610-526-5602