Visiting Artist Series

The Dance Program regularly engages professional dance artists and educators, both locally and beyond, to lead workshops, artist talks, and community conversations throughout the year. Artists sometimes also visit curricular courses and hold residencies through special initiatives in partnership with other departments, offices, and committees across the University. 

Programming is inclusive of all abilities and levels of experience. Many events are open to the Cambridge and Boston area dance communities. All class participants must be at least 18 years of age or an undergraduate student.

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Questions? Contact us at dance@fas.harvard.edu.

ACCESSIBILITY

The Harvard Dance Center is wheelchair accessible. Additionally, if you have questions about the accessibility provided or anticipate needing any accommodation to participate in any of the programs, please email dance@fas.harvard.edu. We welcome a conversation with you!

SPRING 2024 PROGRAMMING

Purple graphic with photo of Kerry Thompson in front of students. Event details included.Inclusive Movements in the Dance Studio: A Workshop with Kerry Thompson
Friday, January 26, 4-5pm

Movement can mean many things– how we move our bodies or a rally for change. In this workshop, Kerry Thompson, a dance teacher who is a person with deafblindness, teaches both kinds of movements to advance disability inclusion for dance. Learn how to create a dance class that uses adaptive dance techniques for a range of disabilities, both visible and invisible, while also creating an environment that is inclusive on and off the dance floor.

Geared towards Harvard student-led dance group leaders, dance teachers, faculty, and anyone interested in inclusive pedagogy and design. Open to the broader Boston area community.

Learn more and register! 

Graphic in dark gray with white text. White lines cross to divide the left text from the photographs on the right. Details of event.Choreographic Syntax
Friday, February 16, 3:30-5pm

Harvard students are invited to a movement workshop at Harvard Dance Center where visiting artist Jack Ferver will discuss the meaning of their choreography as "psychological iconography." Jack will offer pathways for exploring the relationship of the body to psychology and how choreography can be built from this internal to external feeling state. 

Students will engage in improvisations starting with movement and followed by speech to examine their individual choreographic syntax. 

 

Open to all Harvard students– all bodies and all abilities!

 

Part of a two-day engagement with Jack Ferver co-presented by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Office for the Arts at Harvard Dance Program, in partnership with Theater, Dance & Media. For information and to register for the film screening & discussion on February 15 visit: carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/nowhere-apparent-film-screening-and-discussion-jack-ferver 

 

Learn more and register for the workshop at Harvard Dance Center!

 

Gold, green, red, and black graphic, "Exploring Jamaica's Dancehall" with details of event and photo of Latonya Style dancing.Exploring Jamaica's Dancehall
Wednesday, March 6, 6:30-8pm

Renowned Jamaican Dancehall choreographer and teacher Latonya Style visits Harvard Dance Center in the midst of her global tour. This exhilarating workshop explores the evolution of Dancehall through movement, introducing a broad range of vocabulary innovated from the Jamaican Dancehall scene throughout the last 50 years. Learn and embody this art form, which has influenced popular culture on a global scale.

For all bodies, all levels, and all abilities. No previous dance training or experience in Dancehall is required. All are welcome!

Learn more and register for Exploring Jamaica's Dancehall!

Fuchsia, yellow, and white graphic. "Sensual Movement" workshop centered with event details. Headshots of Eva Macias and Shaniqua Roach.Sensual Movement: A Workshop with Dr. Eva Macias and Dr. Shoniqua Roach
Wednesday, March 20, 7:30-9pm

Co-led by dance/movement scholars and facilitators Dr. Eva Macias and Dr. Shoniqua Roach, this workshop mobilizes somatic sensual and Black sensual somatic-based practices (drawn from diverse dance traditions such as pole art, floor work, twerk, etc.) that engage the floor as an apparatus for creative self-expression and sensual unfolding. You will learn a series of foundational floor work movements and sequences and receive guided prompts to explore and deepen your sensual (self) connection. All levels of experience (and all bodies!!) are welcome.

It’s recommended that students wear and/or bring long layers and other personal protective equipment–e.g., socks, leg warmers, knee pads– and a journal and water bottle.

Learn more and register for Sensual Movement! 

Previous Dance Center Visiting Artists

Fall 2023

Stiggity Stackz (Curator collaborator of Infinite Possibilities: Back 2 Skool), HYA aka MonstaPop (Infinite Possibilities: Back 2 Skool workshop and panelist), The Wondertwins (Infinite Possibilities: Back 2 Skool panelist), Rashaad Hasani (Infinite Possibilities: Back 2 Skool panelist), Rascal Randi (Infinite Possibilities: Back 2 Skool panelist), Sekou McMiller (Afro Latin Jazz and Soul Experience workshop, talk, and panelist), Robin Gee (Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance film screening panelist), Jeffrey L. Page (Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance film screening facilitator), Anthony Burrell (Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance film screening panelist), Carina del Valle Schorske (In coversation with Sekou McMiller), Connie Chin '79 (ArtsBites talk), BODYTRAFFIC (repertory workshop).

Spring 2023

Stiggity Stackz (Infinite Possibilities), Shay Wornum (Infinite Possibilities), Lady Beast (Infinite Possibilities), Megatron (Infinite Possibilities), Chad Shabazz (Infinite Possibilities), Christine Cox (Lunchtime Talk), María Aliaga (Intro to Flamenco Workshop), Marja Lankinen (Yoga4Dancers Workshop), Madelyn Ho (Lunchtime Talk)

Fall 2022

Dr. Shriya Srinivasan (Biomechanics of Movement), Kerry Thompson Ed.M. ‘08 (Inclusive Movements), Tatiana Desardouin | Passion Fruit Dance Company, co-presented with TDM (Visiting Dance Innovators Program), Amy O'Neal, co-presented with TDM (Visiting Dance Innovators Program), and Shamel Pitts, co-presented with TDM (Gaga)

Spring 2022

Dr. Shriya Srinivasan (Biomechanics of Movement), Kerry Thompson Ed.M. ‘08 (Art of Inclusion), Gerard & Kelly, co-presented with TDM (Visiting Dance Innovators Program), Wideman Davis Dance, co-presented with TDM (Visiting Dance Innovators Program)

Fall 2021

Semester-long residency with Nailah Randall-Bellinger for creation of a new work commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA). Learn more about the Fall '21 artist residency

Spring 2021

A series of four virtual artist-led conversations around artistry, identity, and advoacy that included: Nailah Randall-Bellinger,  Joh Camara, Sunanda Narayanan, Laura Rodriguez, Tarikh Campbell, Jean Robens Georges, Jeffrey L. Page, Amirah Sackett, Lonnie Stanton,  Yury Yanowksy, Peter Chu, Chanel DaSilva, and Shamel Pitts. 

Fall 2020

Kerry Thompson Ed.M. ‘08 (Disability Inclusion), Kinetic Light (Interdisciplinary Arts and Disability), AXIS Dance Company (Physically-Integrated Contemporary)

Spring 2020

Kerry Thompson Ed.M. ‘08 (Salsa-ASL) 

Fall 2019

MADBOOTS DANCE (Contemporary)Bennyroyce Royon (Contemporary), Amirah Sackett (Hip Hop), The Wondertwins (Hip Hop) 

Spring 2019

Nejla Yatkin (Contemporary), Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Christina Robson) (Contemporary), Belinda McGuire (Contemporary)

Fall 2018

Chanel DaSilva and Zack Winokur (musical theater/creative process), Ayodele Casel (Tap), Heidi Latsky Dance (Physically-Integrated Contemporary), Carlos Lopez (Ballet)

Spring 2018

Ronald K. Brown (Contemporary)Peter Chu (Contemporary), Chanel DaSilva (Contemporary), Shamel Pitts (Contemporary/Gaga)

Fall 2017

Ayodele Casel (Tap), Seane Corn (Yoga), Francesca Harper (Improvisation), Antoine Hunter (Afro Cuban Modern with ASL).

Spring 2017

Peter Chu (Contemporary), Andrea Miller (Contemporary), Tina Fehlandt (Modern/Contemporary), Okwui Okpokwasili (Embodied Practice), Joe Turner Lin (Movement and Film), Jill Johnson & Christopher Roman (Movement Lab)

Fall 2016

Sidra Bell (Contemporary), Carmen Beuchat (Modern), Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar (Theater & Dance), Álvaro Restrepo (Contemporary dance/philosophy), Shantala Shivalingappa (Kuchipudi Classical Indian/Contemporary)

Spring 2016

Karole Armitage (Performance Workshop Intensive), Carlos López (Master Class), and Peter DiMuro (Master Class).  

Fall 2015

Joh Camara (West African), Mikko Nissinen (Ballet), Dwana Smallwood (Contemporary), Risa Steinberg (Limón/Modern), Ebony Williams (Hip Hop)

Spring 2015

Brian Brooks (Contemporary), Ronald K. Brown (Contemporary), Reggie Wilson (Contemporary)

Fall  2014

Michelle Dorrance, Francesca Harper (Contemporary), Jill Johnson (Forsythe), Mikko Nissinen (Ballet), Pilobolus (Contemporary), Sydney Skybetter (Digitial Storytelling)

Spring 2014

Shaun Amyot (Ballet), Mikko Nissinen (Ballet),  Dwight Rhoden (Contemporary)

Fall 2013

Kyle Abraham (Contemporary), Aszure Barton (Contemporary), Peter Chu (Contemporary), Ariel Freedman (Gaga), Francesca Harper (Contemporary)

Spring 2013

Ronald K.  Brown (Contemporary), Patrick Corbin (Contemporary), Francesca Harper (Contemporary), Pontus Lidberg (Contemporary), Andrea Miller (Contemporary), Jon Morris, Rika Okamoto, Josh Rhodes (Contemporary)

Fall 2012

Reid Bartelme (Contemporary), Ariel Freedman (Gaga), John Jasperse (Contemporary), Andrea Miller (Contemporary), Mikko Nissinen, Desmond Richardson (Contemporary), Chet Walker (Fosse)

Spring 2012

Patrick Corbin (Contemporary), Jorma Elo (Ballet), David Hallberg (Ballet), Jill Johnson & Christopher Roman (Contact Improv), Ohad Naharin (Gaga), Pauline Oliveros (Contemporary), Dwight Rhoden & Desmond Richardson (Contemporary), Christopher Roman (Contemporary)

Fall 2011

Danielle Agami (Gaga), Ronald K. Brown (Contemporary), William Forsythe (Forsythe), Margie Gillis (Contemporary), Jill Johnson (Improv), Jill Johnson & Michael Palmer (Poetry & Dance),  Andrea Miller (Contemporary), Mikko Nissinen (Ballet),  Josh Rhodes (Contemporary), Sheron Wray (Contemporary)