(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Lewis Center for the Arts presents the 2025 Princeton Dance Festival from November 21-23, 2025 in McCarter Theatre Center's Berlind Theatre. The festival features new and repertory works by nationally and internationally recognized choreographers, performed by more than 50 Princeton students in an energetic program of dances from a surprising range of dance forms.
Performances take place Friday, November 21 at 8:00pm; Saturday, November 22 at 2:00pm & 8:00pm; and Sunday, November 23 at 2:00pm. Tickets are $20 for the general public and $10 for students. Tickets are available for purchase online. Berlind Theatre is located at 91 University Place in Princeton, New Jersey.
The performance on Sunday, November 23 at 2:00pm will be a Relaxed Performance. Relaxed Performances ease typical theater requirements and welcome audience members to be comfortable and to move or vocalize freely, without judgment or inhibition.
Berlind Theatre is an accessible venue with wheelchair and companion seating available. An assistive listening system is available and headphones can be requested from ushers. Attendees in need of other access accommodations are invited to contact the Lewis Center at 609-258-5262 or email [email protected] at least one week in advance of the event date.
Click here for a video preview of the festival.
The work in the Festival includes:
* an excerpt of the iconic repertory work, “Gloria,” by the legendary Mark Morris staged by faculty member Tina Fehlandt
* restaging of “Non-sequitor Paramour,” a contemporary work by MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham, staged by Stephanie Terasaki
* a new contemporary ballet work by Guggenheim Fellow and past Princeton Hodder Fellow Pam Tanowitz
* a new work by sought-after contemporary dancer and choreographer Christopher Ralph
* a work by Omari Wiles, who merges West African dance styles with vogue and ballroom
* a new contemporary work by former Princeton Arts Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow Netta Yerushalmy
At the Lewis Center for the Arts, they believe that art arises out of questions. Art, on a campus like Princeton’s, is so much more than an “outlet” for expressing what one already knows and feels, or an “escape hatch” for blowing off steam built up by more rigorous kinds of work. Their classes and minor programs in Dance, Creative Writing, Theater & Music Theater, Visual Arts and in the interdisciplinary Princeton Atelier operate on the principle that rigorous artistic practice is a form of research, innovation, discovery and intervention. Like scholarship of any kind, rigorous artistic practice is a way of interrogating that which is accepted or understood in an attempt to break into the territory of the unknown or under-explored.
Through their individual creative work, Lewis Center students investigate questions about themselves, others, and the events and systems that affect us all—systems like geography, politics, gender, race, the economy, the environment, and of course the wide realm of human choice and activity. This is fundamental to the formation of artists. It is also fundamental to the formation of alert, compassionate, creative, resourceful, and active rather than passive people.
The Lewis Center is committed to being an anti-racist space. We endeavor to frequently reappraise and redouble our efforts toward this goal. Their commitment to diversity and inclusion is not nominal or symbolic, but rather action-based. Their faculty, classes, public programs, co-curricular offerings and their engagement with the community beyond Princeton reflect these values.
