Swarthmore College Dance Program

04/23/2026

The Swarthmore College Dance Department presents 2026 Spring Dance Concert.

Friday, May 1st at 4:30pm & Saturday, May 2nd at 7:00pm
Lang Performing Arts Center (LPAC)
Pearson-Hall Theatre

Featuring Faculty-Directed Ensembles: African Diaspora, Ballet, Contemporary, Tap and Taiko.
Student Work: Aishi DeBroy ‘26

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Live-stream Link: https://video.ibm.com/channel/NC4DHY6VReS
Accessibility Advance Notice
Swarthmore College encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact the event sponsor, or Susan Smythe, ADA Program Manager at 610-690-2063 in advance of your participation or visit.

04/21/2026

The Swarthmore College Department of Dance presents Spring 2026 Upcoming Events.

Spring Dance Concert
May 1st at 4:30pm
& May 2nd at 7:00pm
Lang Performing Arts Center
Pearson-Hall Theatre
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No Ticket or RSVP Required

Dance Lab Showing
May 5th at 5:00pm
Lang Performing Arts Center
Troy Dance Lab
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No Ticket or RSVP Required

Dance Colloquium
May 6th at 12:00pm
Lang Performing Arts Center
Sci 204
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
No Ticket or RSVP Required

04/16/2026

Join the Dance Department for a showing of the work of the Ballet Ensemble. Featuring new and classic repertory staged by Jennifer Chipman-Bloom, Chandra Moss-Thorne, and Olivia Sabee, and live music by Paul LoPresti and Stephanie Renée, plus new choreography by student-led Ember Dance Company. Special thanks to the BCC for helping to make this production happen.

04/16/2026

Join the Dance Department at Swarthmore College for Throwback Thursday. This past March, Swarthmore Dance welcomed Dr Kemal Nance ‘92 for Coming Home: A Master Umfundalai Dance Workshop and Dance Career Conversation. This Dance Lecture & Workshop Series event was generously funded by the Cooper Foundation Serendipity Grant.

04/09/2026

Join the Dance Department at Swarthmore College for Throwback Thursday. This past Monday and Tuesday, Swarthmore Dance welcomed Tulsa-based dance artist Maree Remalia for two guest workshops. Students had the opportunity to experience the interdisciplinary creative process behind Remalia’s latest solo work “With Ourselves, With Each Other” and explore her physical practice, inspired by techniques from somatics, improvisation, and theater.

04/01/2026

The Swarthmore Department of Dance warmly invites you to the Spring 2026 Senior Dance Concert featuring the capstone projects of our graduating choreography-focused dance majors Justin Hohn, Emily McClung, Gabby Nash, & Finn Verdonk.

📍 Location: Pearson Hall Theatre, Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College, PA

📅 Date & Time: Saturday, April 11th and Sunday, April 12th @ 5:00 PM (Doors open at 4:30 PM)

Free and open to the public. The closest parking lot to the event is DuPont parking lot.

This performance is taking place in person and will be live-streamed. For those who cannot make it in person, we hope you join us virtually. Livestream Link: https://video.ibm.com/channel/NC4DHY6VReS

Accessibility advance notice: Swarthmore College encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you anticipate needing any type of accommodation or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact the event sponsor, or Susan Smythe, ADA Program Manager at 610-690-2063.

03/31/2026

Direct from Tokyo
Tamagawa University Taiko & Dance 2026
Held annually since 2003, Tamagawa University’s spectacular touring program of taiko drumming and Japanese dance returns to Swarthmore!

Monday, April 6, 2026
7:30 PM
Pearson-Hall Theatre
Lang Performing Arts Center

Free and open to the public! No reservation or ticket required.
Seating is limited — first come, first served

Interested in experiencing Japanese dance and taiko drumming?
Workshop
Monday, April 6, 2026
1:40-2:40 PM
Troy Dance Lab (Lang Performing Arts Center 002)
A workshop in dance and taiko will be led by Tamagawa tour performers.
Free and open to the College community and public -- all levels welcome, no experience necessary.
If you are interested in participating or observing, please RSVP to Joseph Small at [email protected].

03/30/2026

03/26/2026

Join the Dance Department at Swarthmore College for Throwback Thursday. Featured today is the Dance Lecture & Workshop Series Spring 2026 with Amy Swanson, Improvisation as Q***r Praxis: Dancing Otherwise in Dakar.

How does contemporary dance in Dakar, Senegal relate to the city’s porous ecology and informal economy? How might dance improvisation generate q***r praxis within a strictly anti-q***r climate? Drawing from her recently published book, Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Q***r Possibility in Senegal (University of Michigan Press, 2025), Amy Swanson shares her ethnographic research on the q***r aesthetics of contemporary dance training in Dakar and how those aesthetics intersect with Dakar’s geographical, social, and politico-economic contexts. Swanson posits the contemporary dance studio as a privileged arena where social possibilities other than those considered acceptable in the public sphere take root, a condition of possibility paradoxically enabled by the permeable nature of “postcolonial” Dakar. This talk focuses specifically on Congolese choreographer Andréya Ouamba, whose approach to contemporary dance transformed the dance community in Dakar during his twenty-year residence there.

12/11/2025

The Swarthmore Dance Department warmly welcomes you to attend the inaugural
DANCE COLLOQUIUM
Friday, December 12, 2:00 PM
Troy Dance Studio, LPAC002
featuring
Choreographic Work-in-Progress Performances and Presentations
from:
Justin Hohn ‘26, Dance Major
Emily McClung ‘26, Honors Dance Major
Finn Verdonk ‘26, Honors Dance Major
with
Ballet Performance and Presentation by Emma Houlihan
&
Thesis Presentation by
Ari Mosqueda ‘26, Special Major: Dance and Latine/Latin American Cultural Studies

Reception to Follow
Free and Open to the Public
No ticket or RSVP required