Student work: 'Forward'

By Dorothy Chen, Class of 2017, and the Lewis Center for the Arts on Jan. 12, 2015, 12:17 p.m.

Sophomores Dorothy Chen and Dana Fesjian perform in this video, one in a series of videos created by students in the Princeton Atelier course "Dance on Camera/DIY."

Professors Naomi Leonard of mechanical and aerospace engineering and Susan Marshall, director of the Program in Dance in the Lewis Center for the Arts, created a class combining the science of motion and the art of movement. The Princeton Atelier project, called "Flock Logic," resulted in two performances that engaged a wide range of participants including students and volunteers.

Forward Fest public conversation series with faculty experts and alumni continues as part of A Year of Forward Thinking .

Forward Fest Dec. 17 will focus on arts and humanities.

Students bring learning to stage in Spring Dance Festival .

Many students come to Princeton with a talent for dance already well established. Others begin to explore dance as a new passion as part of their undergraduate experience. For all of these students, the annual Spring Dance Festival offers an opportunity to bring months of dance study and rehearsal to the stage, performing works by celebrated choreographers as well as original pieces students had a role in creating.

Students across disciplines dance in 2011 spring festival .

In the culmination of months of rehearsal -- highlighted by a unique opportunity to engage with an internationally celebrated choreographer -- more than 50 students from a range of academic departments will perform this month in the 2011 Spring Dance Festival presented by the University's Lewis Center for the Arts.

Video feature: Students prepare for Princeton Dance Festival .

All semester, professional choreographers and more than 60 Princeton students have been preparing for the annual Princeton Dance Festival, which takes place Dec. 4-6 at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.

Student work: 'Madman/Robertson' .

Senior Jake Robertson will present the classic Russian short story "Diary of a Madman" with a twist as he explores the characters in the story as well as the art of performing itself, asking: How much difference is there between a 19th-century clerk, an obsessive contemporary actor and the king of Spain? How do we know who we really are? The Program in Theater will present this senior thesis production, directed by Lecturer in Theater Bob Sandberg, at 8 p.m. Jan. 8, at 8 and 11 p.m. Jan. 9, and at 8 p.m. Jan. 10 in the Class of 1970 Theater at Whitman College. Tickets are free.