2017

December
- Dance Ensemble Winter Concerts
  
  December 19, 2017
  Each winter, the Drexel Dance Ensemble and FreshDance present two wonderful concerts in the Mandell Theater. These performances provide Drexel students, regardless of their major, an opportunity to express their artistry through dance performance and choreography.
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- High School Summer Programs
  
  December 19, 2017
  
  Do you have children, siblings, friends or peers interested in attending Westphal? Our Summer Programs are now enrolling High School students who want to get a head start on college studies.
  
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November
- ArtistYear
  
  November 15, 2017
  The ArtistYear program provides a unique opportunity for Westphal students graduating this year and alumni up to the age of 28 to make a difference by creating unique arts programs and classes in nearby, underserved Philadelphia public schools.
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October
- BioDesign Challenge
  
  October 30, 2017
  
  BioDesign Challenge is a special topics course that will be offered this winter term and is open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Participants will work towards a coveted spot in the annual BioDesign Challenge Summit, an annual competition held in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
  
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- Belén Maya: Fall Dance Lecture
  
  October 11, 2017
  Acclaimed modernist Flamenco artist Belén Maya will deliver a public lecture and demonstration, accompanied by live music, at 6:00PM in the Mandell Theater on Thursday October 19th entitled Creative process: transformation, collaboration and choreography in contemporary Flamenco.
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September
- Belén Maya
  
  September 27, 2017
  Belén Maya, renowned Flamenco dancer, artist and teacher, joins us for a month of performances, master classes, and engagements as a Rankin Scholar in Residence. Maya will bring her celebrated one woman show, Romnia, to the Black Box Theater for two nights only on October 13and 14. Romnia, or woman in the romani language, takes a complex and deeply emotive look into the historical narrative of the Gypsy woman, countering joy with the courage to survive.
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- Sandra Shih Parks
  
  September 22, 2017
  
  Sandra Parks joins the Performing Arts Department as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance.
  
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August
- Philadelphia Museum of Dance
  
  August 10, 2017
  The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center), a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing that is dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia, recently announced its 2017 grantees and fellowships and we are very proud to have been included.
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- Revolutionary Flamenca: Belén Maya
  
  August 10, 2017
  This fall we will welcome world renowned Flamenco dancer, artist, and teacher, Belén Maya, for a month full of performances, master classes and engagements. Maya has performed the world over during the past three decades after bursting onto the scene in Carlos Sauro's masterpiece movie, FLAMENCO.
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May
- Spring Performing Arts
  
  May 22, 2017
  
  The Department of Performing Arts will enliven our campus with a variety of performances from May 24th - June 11th. Whether your interests lie in dance, music, or theatre, there will be wonderful performances for virtually everyone’s tastes.
  
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- FreshDance: Beyond the Mind
  
  May 09, 2017
  
  This year's FreshDance ensemble is our largest to date, comprising forty dedicated freshmen dancers from the University's many Colleges. Their Spring concert, Beyond the Mind, is a series of six unique pieces that investigate and express the connection between body and mind, rendering their internal dialogues into tangibly visible depictions.
  
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- Indian Kathak Dance
  
  May 09, 2017
  Pallabi Chakravorty, an Associate Professor in the Dance Program at Swarthmore College, will visit Westphal on May 18 and 19 for a guest lecture and Kathak Master Class as a 2017 Rankin Scholar.
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- Westphal Mini Grants
  
  May 09, 2017
  
  Support for this College’s faculty’s creative and scholarly research is vital now more than ever in our time of diminishing governmental, foundation, and corporate support. The Westphal College’s Mini Grants and Creativity Awards program is dedicated to doing just that.
  
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March
- Dance & Film Charrette
  
  March 01, 2017
  
  Over an intensive weekend Charrette starting this Friday, dance students studying choreography and film students will work together as directors, performers, editors and cinematographers to create dance films, music videos and multi-media performances.
  
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January
- Dance in the Gallery
  
  January 25, 2017
  The Drexel University Dance Program will present On Common Ground in the Pearlstein Gallery on Saturday, February 11 from 2-3pm as part of the 125 Years: Drexel and the City exhibition.
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- Winter Dance Concerts
  
  January 25, 2017
  Each season, our Dance students and faculty produce professional caliber shows featuring the Drexel Dance Ensemble and the FreshDance companies, giving students the opportunity to explore their artistry by working with professional choreographers, both faculty and guest artists, and fellow student choreographers.
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- Westphal at the Dornsife
  
  January 10, 2017
  In partnership with the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, leading Westphal faculty from our Dance, Music, Theatre, Design & Merchandising, and Music Industry programs are now offering ongoing programming to the residents of Mantua and Powelton.
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