Performing Arts Series

Jenn Kidwell Studio Visit: The Blackening

Theater artist Kidwell discusses her Bryn Mawr College research residency, joined by collaborator Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, followed by Q&A.

Friday | April 16, 2021 | 1-2 p.m. | Virtual via Zoom
Free and open to the public.
Reserve for The Blackening.

PAST EVENTS

James Allister Sprang: 'Aquifer of the Ducts'

Aquifer of the Ducts is a guided visual and sonic meditative experience, designed to be experienced from home.

Thursday-Friday | March 11-12 | 7:30 p.m. | Virtual via Zoom

The Porch: An After Session on the Resonance of Fred Moten

Join in conversation with a group of artists and curators as they reflect on Moten's critical influence on their practices.

Thursday | March 18 | 7:30-9 p.m. | Virtual via Zoom
(Postponed from Thursday | Nov. 19)

nia love: Research showing: g1(host), a new iteration, UnderCurrents 

A screening of performance research exploring embodied memory, Blackness, and healing, and a short documentary of love’s time at Bryn Mawr College.

Saturday | April 3, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. 
Reserve for UnderCurrents Virtual Screening: Open to Bi-Community Members and the Public through April 17

nia love Residency 2020-2021

The Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series connects the campus and its community to working professional artists, through a performance series presenting music, dance, and theater works throughout the academic year.

This season, amidst upheavals and a global pandemic, the Performing Arts Series is looking to artists to help us comprehend and respond to the moment we are in. Until it is safe to gather again, we are engaging artists throughout their processes through long-term residencies rather than short campus engagements with finished works.

Our first artist in this experimental format will be nia love. love came to campus for a fall residency in the Dance Program with major support from the 360° Course Clusters and engaged with this year’s Flexner Lecturer, Fred Moten. In March 2021, love will come to campus for a spring residency and will share the results of her research with the campus and Performing Arts Series' audiences. Check back here and sign up for the Arts Newsletter for updates on this and future events.

About the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series

Since 1984 the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has presented great artists and performances to Philadelphia-area audiences, creating an environment in which the value of the arts is recognized and celebrated. Providing talks and workshops free to the public to develop arts awareness and literacy, the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has partnered in recent seasons with such organizations as the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Ballet, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, and FringeArts. The Series has presented performances by such diverse luminaries as Trisha Brown Dance Company, Meredith Monk, John Waters, Jennifer Koh, the Khmer Arts Ensemble of Cambodia, and Urban Bush Women.

The Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. 

Contact the Arts Office at reservations@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-5300 for more information.