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DANCE MFA OPEN OFFICE HOUR

Friday, December 6 at 2:00pm

The Duke Dance MFA in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis is now accepting applications for Fall 2025. Please join Director of Graduate Studies Sarah Wilbur for an online information session on applying ...

November Dances

November Dances 2024

November 23, 2024

The Dance Program’s annual fall concert presents guests with an evening of dance performance from faculty, student and guest choreographers. Faculty choreographers include: Iyun Ashani Harrison and Ava LaVonne Vinesett. ...

November dances 2024

November Dances 2024

November 22, 2024

The Dance Program’s annual fall concert presents guests with an evening of dance performance from faculty, student and guest choreographers. Faculty choreographers include: Iyun Ashani Harrison and Ava LaVonne Vinesett. ...

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Dance MFA Student Work-in-progress Showing

November 17, 2024

Five MFA/EIP students will share creative work-in-progress that is in development for their thesis projects. Presentations begin at 4pm. Please come early at 3:00p if you would like to observe ...

MFA students dancing in the Ark on East campus

Duke Dance MFA Open Office Hour

October 4, 2024

Duke Dance MFA is now accepting applications for Fall 2025! Please join Director of Graduate Studies Sarah Wilbur for this open office hour to talk about our two-year, full-time degree ...

ballet performers from November Dances 2023, photo by A. Himwich

Ballet Audition for November Dances

August 28, 2024

Work with faculty choreographer and perform *for credit*! Come to first class meeting to audition, meet and greet. Original work will be presented at November Dances in von der Heyden ...

MFA in Dance Class of 2024

This year, join us in celebrating Julia Piper who will graduate with Duke’s one-of-a-kind graduate degree in dance! The Duke M.F.A. in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis (MFAEIP) supports artists whose creative research connects movement-based knowledge to critical discourses within and beyond the arts.

ChoreoLab

ChoreoLab

April 20, 2024

The Duke University Dance Program presented its spring dance concert, ChoreoLab 2024, featuring choreographic works from our faculty and students. Faculty choreographers: Kristin Duncan, modern; Jingqiu Guan, film; Iyun Ashani ...

ChoreoLab

ChoreoLab

April 19, 2024

The Duke University Dance Program presented its spring dance concert, ChoreoLab 2024, featuring choreographic works from our faculty and students. Faculty choreographers: Kristin Duncan, modern; Jingqiu Guan, film; Iyun Ashani ...

Cyclical Navigations: In the In Between

This work is an interdisciplinary installation that focuses on the ways embodied storytelling can function as a historical care practice. This installation aids in the creation of a nonlinear archive based on the stories, memories, and lived experiences of Black folks in America.

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