Spring 2024 Dance Events
We’re thrilled to share with our audiences the creative and scholarly work of our students, faculty, and guest artists during the upcoming season.
As new and veteran voices combine to share stories of the human condition onstage, I hope you will join us in celebrating the many students who have dedicated their education—and our faculty and visiting artists who have dedicated their professional careers—to creating dance in our Totman Performance Lab.
CRĀV The Harvest, Inaugural Conference
Featuring Hip-Hop Scholar & Practitioner Dr. Lorenzo Harris in Residence
Featuring Hip-Hop Scholar & Practitioner Dr. Lorenzo Harris in Residence
Includes The Adventures of Maxx Lancaster: A Journey of Black Masculinity (3/26, 7pm, Totman)
Dr. Lorenzo Harris Public Artist Talk, Code Breakers (3/27, UMass FAC)
CRĀV The Harvest Showcase (3/28, 7pm, Totman)
Masterclass with Dr. Harris (3/29, 1:10pm, Smith College Berenson Studio)
Lecture by Dr. Harris (3/29, 4:30pm, Smith College Theater 14)
Tues.-Sat. March 26-30, UMass Amherst & Smith College
Register for Conference EventsThurs/Fri, March 7 & 8 @ 7:30pm, Totman Performance Lab, $10/Students free
Senior Thesis Dance Concerts
Senior Thesis Performances
More Featured Dance Events Happenings in 2024
Sat/Sun, February 17 & 18, 2-day intensive, Totman Gym & Studio (202/204)
Highlighting the legacy, lineage, and pedagogy of Jazz Dance as told by Black Female scholarship. Students will deepen their study of the many Africanist foundations within the form, and experience how its tutelage benefits a career in dance. We bring master teacher Sheila Barker, who studied under notable Jazz practitioners, Dianne McIntyre, Thelma Hill and Frank Hatchett.
Open to Five College Dance students and anyone who has significant dance training. (Dance Team and dance groups are welcome!)
Thurs/Fri/Sat, February 22, 23, 24 @ 7:30pm, Totman Performance Lab, $25/15/5, UMass students free
Featuring choreography by Tom Vacanti and Molly Fletcher Lynch-Clark
Fri/Sat. May 3 & 4 @ 8:00pm, Totman Performance Lab, $10/Students free
Junior dance majors present their choreography projects
Tickets at 413-545-2511, at the door or ONLINE