(PRINCETON, NJ) -- The Lewis Center for the Arts' 2024 Princeton Dance Festival takes place November 22-24, 2024 in McCarter Theatre Center's Berlind Theatre. The festival features new and repertory works by nationally and internationally recognized choreographers, performed by 49 Princeton students in an energetic program of dances from a surprising range of dance forms.
The work in the Festival includes a reimagined, excerpted hip-hop work by Rennie Harris, a new contemporary dance-theater work by Raja Feather Kelly, a new contemporary work by Rebecca Lazier, a new ballet work by Matthew Neenan, an excerpt from Stephen Petronio’s Lareigne (1995) staged by Davalois Fearon, and a restaged excerpt of Ripple, a 2021 contemporary work rooted in Chinese classical and folk dance by Yue Yin.
The cast includes senior dancers Adam Littman Davis ’25, Cassie Eng ’25, Clara Toujas ’25, Ethan Arrington ’25, Faith Wangermann ’25, Jad Bendarkawi ’25, Kate Stewart ’25, Mirabelle Weinbach ’25, Moses Abrahamson ’25, Paige Sherman ’25, Sabrina Niccacio Gomes ’25, Sophie Main ’25, and Tierra Lewis ’25. Junior dancers in the cast include Blaise Stone ’26, Braeh Simon ’26, Charles Yu ’26, Derek Geng ’26, Enzo Miguel Kho ’26, Helena Richardson ’26, Jessica Waters ’26, Keilly Ponce-Merida ’26, Madalyn Mejia ’26, Makenzie Hymes ’26, Maya Sessions ’26, Olivia Kasule ’26, Olivia Roslansky ’26, Olivia Taylor ’26, and Pippa LaMacchia ’26. Sophomore dancers include Gayoung Choi ’27, Gisele Sonnier ’27, Jenna Kim ’27, Lori Gallo ’28, Madeline Rohde ’27, Mia Jolly ’27, Rachel Jack ’27, Sophie Feinblatt ’27, and Sofia Rodrigues-Tucker ’27. Bebe Cassidy ’28, Cici Yu ’28, Elizabeth Rose ’28, Imogene Elias ’28, Livia Shneider ’28, Lucy Carlin ’28, Renata Suarez ’28, and Tobias Seabold ’28 are among the first-year student dancers. Graduate students Alex Sanchez G1, Christine Blackshaw G4, and Hannah Hunter G1 are also in the cast.
Performances take place Friday, November 22 at 8:00pm; Saturday, November 23 at 2:00pm & 8:00pm; and Sunday, November 24 at 2:00pm. Tickets are available for purchase online. McCarter Theatre Center is located at 91 University Place in Princeton, New Jersey.
Visit the Lewis Center website to learn more about this event, the Program in Theater and Music Theater, and the more than 100 public performances, exhibitions, readings, screenings, concerts, lectures, and special events presented by the Lewis Center each year, most of them free.
