Dance

Rooted in tradition, committed to innovating, the OFA Dance Program supports studies in dance composition, improvisation, performance, choreographic design and history of dance with an emphasis on collaboration and trans-disciplinary inquiry.

David Michalek's Slow Dancing
video installation exhibited on the facade of Widener Library, Harvard Yard, April 20-29, 2012.


Pre-Term Planning has begun for Fall 2012! Check out Music 105r: The Fundaments of Improvisation and Composition -- Dance.
Photo: Teresa Lattanzio.


4/19 Master Class: Patrick Corbin, Director of CorbinDances, former dancer with Joffrey Ballet & Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Photos: Lois Greenfield.

4/16 Robert Battle, Artistic Director of
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater discussed the Ailey legacy.
Photos: Andrew Eccles.

4/30 Master Class: David Hallberg,
principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.
Photo: Liza Voll.

Practice is Performance Series. With: Christine Bennett, Christopher Roman, Federico Cortese, Nailah Randall-Bellinger.
Photo: Complexions Contemporary Dance.

Watch RE:RE:RE: Dance Installation, by Jill Johnson, premiered Dec. 2011, performed Feb. 2012; Apr. 2012 at ARTS FIRST on the steps of Widener Library.
Photo: Liza Voll.

Megan Murdock '14 & Timothy McCormack PhD '16 in The Sound of Distance in Itself
by Jill Johnson.
Photo: Liza Voll.

Tsung-Yun Tzeng EXT '13 in Third Rail by Jill Johnson & Christopher Roman.
Photo: Liza Voll.

Shayna Skal '13, Mackenzie Dolginow '13, & Halimeda Glickman-Hoch '12 in The Sum of Missing Parts by Christopher Roman.
Photo: Liza Voll.

Shayna Skal '13 in Christopher Roman's The Sum of Missing Parts.
Photo: Liza Voll.

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Dance Events

First day of Music 105r. Fundaments of Improvisation & Composition: Dance 9/5
Dance Program (Office for the Arts)
Harvard Dance Center

Fall 2012 Dance Course Registration 9/11
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Harvard Dance Center

First day of Music 105r. Fundaments of Improvisation & Composition: Dance 9/5
Dance Program (Office for the Arts)
Harvard Dance Center

Fall 2012 Dance Course Registration 9/11
Dance Program (Office for the Arts)
Harvard Dance Center