Theater, Dance & Media, Harvard University

Theater, Dance & Media, Harvard University Harvard's newest concentration focusing on theory and practice in theater, dance and media

Harvard's newest concentration focusing on the intersections of theory and practice in the areas of theater, dance, and media.

Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) presents Emerging Ideas on Art and Society, which invites an artist, a t...
10/28/2025

Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) presents Emerging Ideas on Art and Society, which invites an artist, a thinker, or a critic to come and share their doubts, questions, incomplete thoughts, and challenges about what art and society are today. A small group of students and faculty will gather to have an informal but intense conversation with the guest. A short text will be shared in advance to inform the conversation. While we expect active interventions, the guest leads the dramaturgy of the event with the questions they bring to the table that day.

This conversation’s guest is q***r theorist, gender studies scholar and author Jack Halberstam. He is the David Feinson Professor of The Humanities at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke UP, 1995), Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), In A Q***r Time and Place (NYU Press, 2005), The Q***r Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), Gaga Feminism: S*x, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) and, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam’s latest book, 2020 from Duke UP is titled Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. Places Journal awarded Halberstam its Arcus/Places Prize in 2018 for innovative public scholarship on the relationship between gender, sexuality and the built environment. Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled: Unworlding: An Aesthetics of Collapse. Halberstam was recently the subject of a short film titled “So We Moved” by Adam Pendleton which played at MoMA NYC until January 30, 2022.

We’ve heard that there might be a piece in Loopholes inspired by food! Did these cookies from class last week inspire so...
10/28/2025

We’ve heard that there might be a piece in Loopholes inspired by food! Did these cookies from class last week inspire some new choreography? Perhaps. Perhaps not. You’ll need to come to the show to know for sure.

Loopholes will be performing in Harvard Dance Center on November 14th and 15th. Be there or be square.

You're invited to join Physical Approaches to Acting and Storytelling (TDM 121MV) for an anecdotal—and occasionally hand...
10/22/2025

You're invited to join Physical Approaches to Acting and Storytelling (TDM 121MV) for an anecdotal—and occasionally hands-on—tour through the art of mime by one of its most globally respected practitioners, Bill Bowers.

Come join us as Bill discusses his personal journey into the world of physical performance, sharing his wealth of philosophical and practical insights developed over his many-decade career.

Open to all Harvard community members. No RSVP required!

Multi-disciplinary dance artist Miguel Gutierrez gave a talk entitled “am i a body or a thing” at last week’s Perspectiv...
10/21/2025

Multi-disciplinary dance artist Miguel Gutierrez gave a talk entitled “am i a body or a thing” at last week’s Perspectives on Performance. His fascinating, wide-ranging talk discussed his recent performance “Super Nothing,” his approach to archive, and the development of his choreographic work.

What’s going on in Loopholes class? Why do people have shoes on their hands? And will this shoe-based spectacle make it ...
10/20/2025

What’s going on in Loopholes class? Why do people have shoes on their hands? And will this shoe-based spectacle make it into the production? You’ll have to come to the show later this semester to find out!

Mark your calendars. Loopholes will be performing in Harvard Dance Center on November 14th and 15th.

Students are hard at work in rehearsal for Loopholes, this semester’s TDM dance production! This interdisciplinary multi...
10/16/2025

Students are hard at work in rehearsal for Loopholes, this semester’s TDM dance production! This interdisciplinary multimedia extravaganza will be an anthology of shorter works featuring five student dancers and utilizing a combination of live performance and live video. Last week in rehearsal, we got to watch this group of dancers warm up and then get to work on creating a group etude based on an assortment of words they picked out of a bag. We can’t wait to see the results of all their hard work and creativity at the performances of Loopholes in November!

TDM will hold its first Professionalization Workshop of the year on Friday October 24th from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. Hosted by...
10/14/2025

TDM will hold its first Professionalization Workshop of the year on Friday October 24th from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. Hosted by TDM staff members James Stanley, Marti McIntosh and Aislinn Brophy, this workshop will cover resume building, cover letters and communication etiquette as well as strategies for landing internships, apprenticeships and first jobs in the field. We will also introduce you to a broad range of internship and entry-level positions collected from the working professionals in TDM’s faculty and staff. Application season for the summer of ’26 and beyond starts in just a few months. Let us help prepare you to launch into life after graduation!

This event is open to all Harvard undergraduates.

For any accessibility needs, please share with your RSVP or contact us at tdm[@]fas.harvard.edu.

Students in Backstage Blueprint (TDM 157) experienced the national tour of Hamilton and were invited backstage afterward...
10/09/2025

Students in Backstage Blueprint (TDM 157) experienced the national tour of Hamilton and were invited backstage afterward to learn how the production comes together—from the technical systems to the management teams that keep the show running.

In this talk, Miguel Gutierrez will discuss the development of his choreographic work and the tension between visual rep...
10/07/2025

In this talk, Miguel Gutierrez will discuss the development of his choreographic work and the tension between visual representation and affect. He will focus on how he approaches archive, reconstruction, intentional corruption, multi-directionality and melodrama in his work, particularly in his recent performance Super Nothing.

More info & RSVP: https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/event/perspectives-performance-miguel-gutierrez?occ_id=0

About Miguel Gutierrez:

Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is an artist and educator living between Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY and Tovaangar/Los Angeles. Recent performance work includes Super Nothing, a dance blueprint for q***r survival developed through the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program at New York Live Arts, and sueño, his music project of original songs. His work has been presented internationally for over twenty years in venues such as Festival D’Automne in Paris, REDCAT, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Festival Universitario in Colombia, and as a selected artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. His writing has appeared in BOMB online, Small Press Traffic’s The Back Room, InDance, and most recently in S***S anthology from Dopamine Press and in Entanglements, a monograph on work by collaborative artists Luke George and Daniel Kok. His podcast, Are You For Sale? examines the ethical entanglement between dance making and funding. www.miguelgutierrez.org

We had a packed house at our recent Perspectives on Performance! Chloë Bass gave a riveting presentation, which was part...
10/06/2025

We had a packed house at our recent Perspectives on Performance! Chloë Bass gave a riveting presentation, which was part artist talk and part lecture-performance. Here she is pictured giving her talk, entitled "Swim Parallel to the Shore: Performing at the End of Empire," and posing for a photo with TDM Artistic Producer James Stanley and TDM Chair David Levine.

Announcing the TDM Fall Dance Production: LoopholesLoopholes is an anthology of new dance works, created by the students...
10/02/2025

Announcing the TDM Fall Dance Production: Loopholes

Loopholes is an anthology of new dance works, created by the students of TDM 90CR, exploring culture, conflict, and carbohydrates. Prompted by visiting lecturers Ali Kenner Brodsky and Andy Russ to consider the dancing body in the digital world, Judy Epstein ‘27, Crystal Manyloun ‘26, Matondo Mihalache ‘29, Salem Shubash ‘29, and Izzy Wilson ‘26 have created a multi-course, multimedia spectacle that interweaves strands of live performance, projected video, and hybrid experimentation.

Friday, November 14 at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 15 at 2pm
Saturday, November 15 at 7:30pm

Harvard Dance Center Studio 1, 66 Garden Street

Sophomores, concentration declaration is almost here! At this info session, learn about the steps you need to take to co...
09/24/2025

Sophomores, concentration declaration is almost here! At this info session, learn about the steps you need to take to concentrate in Theater, Dance & Media and ask all your questions about our requirements. Snacks will be provided! RSVP by emailing tdmdus [at] fas.harvard.edu.

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