Monthly Archives: April 2014

Crum Creek Meander in Motion (4/25 @ 12:30PM)

Come experience the Crummeander1
Crum Creek Meander In Motion
A Site-Specific Performance

Friday, April 25, 2014
12:30 PM
At the Crum Creek Meander installation on Sharples Lawn

Sponsored by the Department of Music and Dance
Choreographed by Erica Janko ’17 as part of a Dance Composition Tutorial

The Spring 2014 Student Dance Concert

The Swarthmore College Dance Program presents the 2014 Spring Student Dance Concert. African, Ballet, Flamenco, Modern, Kathak and Tap repertory classes will all be included this year.  Several pieces feature live music, video, and song.  Come celebrate our graduating seniors and the hard work of all our dance students and faculty.  The concert, which is appropriate for all ages, is free and open to the public. This show is uplifting and joyful!

When:

Friday, May 2, 2014 at 4:30PM

Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 8PM

Where:

Swarthmore College, LPAC

Pearson-Hall Theatre (Mainstage)

There will also be a showing of work from other Dance classes including Pointe, Modern, and Dance Composition on Monday, May 5th at 3:30PM in the LPAC Troy dance studio.  Please join us!

In the news: Pallabi Chakravorty in Chicago (4/16 – 4/18)

Pallabi Chakravorty will be speaking about “Affective Labor in Dance: South Asia and Beyond” at the University of Chicago, April 18, 2014.

The symposium also kicks off with a discussion of (her book) “Bells of Change: Kathak Dance, Women, and Modernity in India” with the Critical Dance Studies Reading group at Northwestern University, April 17.

More info about Pallabi’s book available here: http://www.pallabi.com/research.php