Duke Dance Program Spring Dances Concert 2026 Free and open to the public Friday and Saturday, April 17 & 18, 7:30 PM Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Theater New ...

Duke Dance Program Spring Dances Concert 2026 Free and open to the public Friday and Saturday, April 17 & 18, 7:30 PM Rubenstein Arts Center, von der Heyden Theater New ...

Dive into emerging movement research and conversation as the DUKE MFA Year One graduate dance artists pull back the curtain on their current work. Friday, April 10 from 10:30am-noon in ...

The first-year cohort of Duke’s MFA in Dance warmly invites you to an evening of choreographic experiments and exchange. In an informal and open setting, we will share fresh work ...

Masterclass with Tamara Willams and Moving Spirits, Wednesday, 4/8/26 6:15-7:45 PM Rubenstein Arts center Studio 224. Embodied Dialogues V: Memory Work and Body Landscaping – Ancestral Practices in African Brazilian ...

Music/Song/Memory Work, with Tamara Williams and Moving Spirits, Tuesday, 4/7/26 6:00-8:00 PM Rubenstein Arts Center Studio 202. Embodied Dialogues V: Memory Work and Body Landscaping – Ancestral Practices in African ...

Masterclass with Tamara Williams and Moving Spirits, Tuesday, 4/7/26 4:30-5:55 PM RAC Studio 224. Embodied Dialogues V: Memory Work and Body Landscaping – Ancestral Practices in African Brazilian Dance residency ...

Open to Duke students and community guests. Register here: https://duke.is/p/7epk Workshop with Wendy Jehlen of ANIKAYA Dance Theater. Experience the process connected to ANIKAYA Dance Theater’s choreographic work, “Conference of ...

Celebrate wimmin’s herstory month with wimmin@workshops 2026! Saturday, March 28, 10-4:30, Duke University Rubenstein Arts Center, Studio 202 2020 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708 Free. All are welcome. Registration required ...

The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD) seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, “Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins.” ...

The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD) seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, “Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins.” ...

THE BLACK PALIMPSEST is a choreographic and sonic offering that moves through Durham’s sacred landscapes, centering the Stagville Historic Site, once among the South’s largest plantations. Guided by Tristian-who searches ...

The Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference (CADD)* seeks scholarship that speaks to permanence and subversiveness in Black Dance traditions for its 2026 Conference, “Black Phoenixing: Dancing Through the Ruins.” ...

Stand N Your Purpose: The Manifestations of the Pursuit of Tension is an interdisciplinary MFA thesis project by Asili Johnson that explores how artists discover, claim, and embody the value ...

weaving Dreams is an interdisciplinary performance that blends dance, spoken word, visual art, sound, and projection to explore how memory, identity, and ancestral connection surface through embodied and intuitive practices. ...

Student Choreographers – Show your work on the main stage in the Duke Dance Program Spring Dances Concert! Video Audition- Send a 2-5-minute video link and a brief description of ...

Student Choreographers – Show your work on the main stage in the Duke Dance Program Spring Dances Concert! Video Audition- Send a 2-5-minute video link and a brief description of ...

Performance: Modern/DANCE 412 Instructor – Kristin Taylor Duncan Audition Date/Time: Thursday, January 8, 2026, 7:30 – 8:45, Rubenstein Arts Center Studio 201 Course meets T/TH 7:30 – 8:45

Performance: Hip-Hop/DANCE 444 Instructor: Ife Presswood Audition Date/Time: Thursday, January 8th: 4:40 pm.- 5:55 pm, Rubenstein Art Center Studio 201 Course meets T/TH 4:40 PM-5:55 PM

Instructor: Tania Suarez Audition Date/Time: Thursday, January 8, 2026, 1:25-2:40 pm, Rubenstein Art Center, Studio 224. Course Meets – T/TH 1:25-2:40 pm Ballet Audition: Please bring a 30-second to 1-minute ...

Performance African/DANCE 432-01 Instructor: Ava LaVonne Vinesett Audition Date/Time: January 7, 2026, 7:30-8:45, Rubenstein Arts Center Studio 224 Course meets M/W 7:30-8:45

Instructor: Nina Wheeler Audition Date/Time: Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 1:25-2:40PM Rubenstein Art Center, Studio 224. Class meets M/W 1:25-2:40PM

Please join Director of Graduate Studies Sarah Wilbur, PhD, for this open office hour to find out more about our MFA program in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis. Bring any questions about ...

November Dances is the Duke University Dance Program’s annual main stage concert presenting choreographic works by faculty, students and invited guest artists. Free admission, all are welcome. This year’s choreographers ...

November Dances is the Duke University Dance Program’s annual main stage concert presenting choreographic works by faculty, students and invited guest artists. Free admission, all are welcome. This year’s choreographers ...

Put on your dance outfit or costume and get ready to move! Join us for the inaugural Duke Dance Open House Day – a Halloween-themed celebration of dance and community. ...

Join a moderately challenging yet accessible core-focused yoga class.

Duke Dance MFA is now accepting applications for Fall 2026! Join Director of Graduate Studies Sarah Wilbur, PhD, for an online discussion about our unique two-year program in Embodied Interdisciplinary ...

Movie screening of Mama Dancers

Open to all undergraduate students, the annual open house provides the opportunity to meet our faculty and students, explore the Rubenstein Arts Center (home to the Dance Program), have your ...

Choreolab Spring 2025: A Day of Dance Experiments invites you to experience dance beyond the proscenium stage. Throughout the day, the Rubenstein Arts Center will come alive with movement workshops, ...

Lenora Lee, Artistic Director of Lenora Lee Dance, will share her approaches to creating large-scale multimedia, immersive, and interactive dance experiences, heavily focused on her research in communities, created specifically ...

WITHIN THESE WALLS (Lenora Lee & Tatsu Aoki, 2024, 76 min, USA, English, Digital) In association with Lenora Lee Dance, Lenora Lee Productions, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Films, and Asian ...

Dance MFA candidate Natalia Cervantes presents welding borderlands | soldando las tierras fronterizas, a solo performance. Audience will meet at Lakewood Shopping Center to travel to the venue on a ...

Dance MFA candidate Sadé Jones presents MELANATED CHRYSALIS, an immersive performance with an ensemble of five members incorporating dance supported by sound, words and elements of ritual theater. This event ...

Dance MFA candidate Chania Wilson presents THERE IS A LADDER, a curated installation in the Rubenstein Arts Center in conjunction with a performance in von der Heyden Theater. Wilson has ...

Dance MFA candidate Indigo Cook presents AND YOU GHOSTS RISE BLUE, an evening-length interdisciplinary performance with a thematic/poetic orientation towards ghosts – a paranormal opera of sorts that involves elements ...

Dance MFA candidate em Liptow presents THRESHOLDING, the culmination of several months of creative process with fellow Threshold Singers (a practice of singing at bedside to the sick and dying.) ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Join the Duke Dance Program’s former and current directors and faculty for a lunchtime chat. Our history at Duke spans almost five decades. This friendly roundtable will include faculty, students, ...

Join Duke Dance Program celebrating the Duke Centennial and the longevity of the Ark Studio with live music and mad fun! Built in 1898, we honor the Ark Studio as ...

Call for student choreographers to audition original work for NOVEMBER DANCES, the Duke Dance Program Fall concert in Reynolds Theater, Nov. 22 & 23. Three student pieces will be presented ...

No audition required, all students are welcome to participate! Work with guest choreographer T. Lang and perform *for credit*! Come to first class meeting for more info. Original work will ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...