Mission
Yale Dance Theater (YDT) is a faculty-led extracurricular initiative that enables Yale students to work with professional artists on the reconstruction of existing choreography and/or development of new work. YDT is conceived as a practice-based research initiative that allows students to investigate choreographic ideas and their historical context through a rigorous rehearsal process, resulting in a final public showing.
Sponsored by the Arts Discretionary Fund in Yale College in cooperation with Dance Studies, Theater Studies, and Alliance for Dance at Yale.
Faculty director: Emily Coates
YDT student coordinators: Elena Light & Aren Vastola
Join us April 27th for the final showings of YDT 2012: The Legacy of Merce Cunningham, 5 & 7 pm in the John J Lee Amphitheater, Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
For reservations please visit: http://www.yaledramacoalition.org/merce_cunningham/
Yale Dance Theater 2011 Performing Twyla Tharp’s Eight Jelly Rolls:
Press
Read more about the 2012 Cunningham project in the Yale Daily News:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/dec/01/yale-dance-leads-new-chapter-in-cunningham-legacy/
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