Salem State University Music & Dance Department

09/10/2026

Time to sign up for the Fall 2026 Arts Coffeehouse! This is an informal performance opportunity for students to share music, visual art, writing, dance and theatre. We'll have snacks and lots of time to connect with other creatives on campus.

🟦October 7
🟧6:30 - 8 pm
🟦Starbucks Cafe , Forten Hall

Visit https://bit.ly/4imO9em for additional information and to sign up.

Registration closes October 1.

Salem State University Theatre & Speech Department

Sign up to perform at the Arts Coffeehouse on, Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 6:30-8 pm. (Performers need to arrive between 6 and 6:15). All types of performance welcome - poetry, short stories, dances, music, scenes, monologues, comedy, and more! Deadline to sign up is Thursday, October 1 by 5 pm. If....

09/08/2026

Lovely reflections about the department by music alum Javier Márquez ’08 .

09/05/2026

OPEN LEVEL MODERN DANCE TECHNIQUE CLASS with Guest Artist Rose Woods Dance Collective Tuesday, September 8 @ 10:50am-12:05pm in O’Keefe 303.

Rose Woods Dance Collaborative is a dance theatre and performance art company founded by New England dancers and choreographers, Jenna Gross and Jillian MacLaughlin. Their work offers social commentary through pantomime-inspired comedy and absurdism. They are experts at making serious topics into jokes – and taking jokes seriously.

08/26/2026

ScreenDance RoadShow Season 9
Friday, September 18 at 7:30 pm
Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts

ScreenDance RoadShow (formerly Motion State Dance Film Series) is the only traveling short dance film series in New England that showcases contemporary creative voices exploring choreography for the camera. Each season, a diverse program of dance films from around the world are screened at venues across New England. ScreenDance RoadShow is curated by Ali Kenner Brodsky and Andy Russ.

FREE for students with ID and under 18.

Image from SDRS Season 8 - Drenched by Holly Wilder

Additional information at salemstatetickets.com

08/21/2026

DANCE AUDITIONS! SAVE THE DATE!

Tuesday, Sept. 8, 5-8PM: Salem Dance Ensemble (SDE) and Hip Hop Dance Ensemble (HDE) informational meeting and auditions.
5-7pm: current SSU students
7-8pm: alumni and members of the community welcome for HDE auditions
questions? email Professor Betsy Miller at [email protected]
Events take place in Studio 303, O'Keefe Center.

08/12/2026

This Sunday’s Summer Orchestra Concert will feature various members of the ensemble, many of whom are members of the Salem State community.

The brass section shines at the top of the concert with Verdi’s “Nabucco Overture”. The overture also features an oboe and trumpet duet shared by Cyndi Napierkowski and Mark Napierkowski. Cyndi directs the University Band.

Brian Hellman (cello) from our ITS department and SSU senior librarian Nancy George (clarinet) are featured in a duet in “Invitation to the Dance”, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz.

The program includes selections from a little-known Verdi opera, Les vêpres siciliennes, specifically its ballet sequence, “The Four Seasons”. Each movement is a series of ballet vignettes featuring members of the orchestra.
o L'inverno: Fran Pierce and Cyndi Napierkoswki – flute/oboe duet
o La Primavera: Allison Blass, flute solo; Nancy George, clarinet solo
o L'estate: Kerin Wlash, flute solo; Cyndi Napierkowski, oboe solo
o L'autunno: Features the cello section, Brian Helman, Armania Boyd '24, Addison Jones, Katy Brunault, Amy Everitt (Healthcare Studies) and Jasper Lior as well as Daniella Hernandez (flute) and Nancy George (clarinet).

Concert details
Sunday, August 16
2 pm
Recital Hall, 71 Loring Avenue

Admission is free.
The Sunday, August 16 concert begins at 2 pm in the Recital Hall, 71 Loring Avenue. Admission is free. See less

08/10/2026

The Summer Orchestra at Salem State is busy preparing for their Sunday, August 16 concert which will take place at 2 pm in the Recital Hall. The repertoire is all dance-centered ranging from Berlioz’s orchestration of “Invitation to the Dance” by Carl Maria von Weber to a lesser-known work by Verdi, Les vêpres siciliennes from “The Four Seasons.” Admission to this concert is free.

The Recital Hall is located on the ground floor of the Classroom Building, 71 Loring Avenue. Parking is available in the lot across the street, next to the Salem Diner.

07/14/2026

Attention music and dance alumni! Share what you are up to in the world with our alumni team.

What is your Salem State story? We want to hear from you!
Visit https://ow.ly/Gpiq50Zcs0t to share your story!

06/09/2026

06/04/2026

Save the Date!

4th Annual North Shore High School Honor Bands

Salem State University
Saturday, December 5, 2026
8 am - 9 pm