January 1, 0001

The annual performance charrette, hosted by our Dance and Digital Media programs, gathers students with a multitude of backgrounds, interests and skillsets to spend one intensive weekend creating an interdisciplinary, multimedia performance. The 2015 charrette theme is “The Odyssey (Episodes from the Journey Home),” in which students will use excerpts of Homer's text as inspiration for creating installation-based performances around the architecture and spaces of the URBN Center. Student performers from an array of programs—from music and theatre to writers, engineers and designers—will join dance and digital media majors to explore themes of voyage, conflict, and coming home. This weekend, the invigorating process will engage charrette participants in more than 48 hours of creative collaboration, at the close of which will be a public performance on Sunday, April 12 at 6:00pm in the URBN Center.

The multimedia aspect of the performance will be supported by the use of devices from Drexel’s ExCiTE Center. In addition to the extensive collaborative sessions, participants will also join a lecture-demonstration with guest Marcel Williams Foster, theater and performance artist. The charrette is coordinated by professors in Dance and Digital Media alongside this year's addition of faculty from Art & Art History and Theatre. Click here to learn about last year's performance charrette. For more information please contact Tania Isaac, Dance Professor, at tbi24@drexel.edu.