Kyle Abraham, the critically acclaimed choreographer and dancer, recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant and Artistic Director of Abraham.In.Motion will visit on Thursday, December 1 for a lecture, free and open to the public starting at 7pm in Mitchell Auditorium (3141 Market Street). 

National Endowment for the Art’s Big Read Festival and Drexel’s Writers Room are paying tribute to one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature, Zora Neale Hurston and her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching Gods”. Included in the events is a presentation of the creative outcomes developed during Dance Professor Tania Issac’s four-week long workshop re-interpreting Hurston’s text which will be presented on Saturday, October 29 at 7:00pm in Van Rensselaer Hall.

Acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz will come to Drexel this September for a series of important and exciting dance performances, master classes, and a public workshop series entitled Dancing Dialogues.

As the end of our academic year comes near, the Department of Performing Arts will enliven our campus with a variety of performances from May 13th - June 5th.

The Dance Program will host the Pennsylvania Ballet’s rehearsal of O Zlozony/O Composite, a piece by the iconic post-modernist American choreographer, Trisha Brown.

Professor Isaac and Meredith Rainey present new duet: (In)Visible