Hampshire College Dance Program

Here is an incomplete collection of phone photos from the exquisite performances at the End of Semester Showing. Hampshire dancers really and truly left it all on the floor. If you have other photos of that event, please send them to us, for the archive/insta & our collective memory. 💕❤️💕❤️

Dear HDP community,
You are invited to a goodbye/closing ritual for the Hampshire Dance Program on Saturday, May 9th, 2026. We know these studios and the people who have moved through them have been deeply significant to so many of us and we know that it’s good to gather in times of big change.

There will be a few different ways to mark this transition on May 9:

Open time in the dance studios: 12-3:30pm
Come and go, lie on the floor, write, move, do a score, be with yourself and/or whoever happens to be there at the same time!

Memory archive project
During the open studio time, there will be many copies of a piece of paper that has a map of the studios, as well as writing and drawing implements that you can use to annotate the maps with memories, names, stories, drawings. These pages and any other photos and ephemera that people bring will be archived in digital form for all to visit and see

Circle: 3:30pm
We will gather in a circle in the main dance studio. This is a time when we will introduce ourselves to one another and have an opportunity to share a few words to acknowledge what this space has held for each of us over the years.

After the circle, we will potluck!

Please come if these spaces have been meaningful to you, and please spread the word to others who you know might want to know that something like this is happening.

We look forward to gathering with you.

LIGHTWORK OPENS TONIGHT!!!

ticket link in bio and come on over now!!

The Hampshire Dance Program will present the Div III Dance Festival, Thursday, April 9- Saturday, April 11, 2026. Program A: LIGHTWORK, will be performed on Thursday, April 9th and Saturday, April 11th at 7:30 PM. Program B: BELOVED FORMS, will be performed on Friday, April 10th at 7:30PM and Saturday, April 11th at 4PM.

The Div III Dance Festival brings together new dance works that have been developed by five choreographers as part of their Div III/senior projects. At Hampshire, A Div III is an extensive, independent, year-long project that students undertake in their last year. For each choreographer in the concert, dance functions as a central practice in dialogue with multi- and transdisciplinary research. The artists’ creative, scholarly, and community-engaged project inquiries include: Black survival and legacies of resistance, forest ecology and embodied stewardship, songwriting/recording and choreopoetics, and event production and q***r burlesque. The works draw from a multitude of dance practices including but not limited to jazz, modern, hip hop, burlesque, and body-percussion.

Program A: LIGHTWORK features How We Get Thru: Scriptures for Black Life choreographed by Samara “Mère” Ternoir, and Sounds Of My pEace (SOME) by Kylie Gregory. Program B: BELOVED FORMS features To the Ash Trees choreographed by Whitney Byington, Shaping and Shifting choreographed by Rowan Banford, and Excerpts of Starlight choreographed by Fae Galatis.

The Div III Dance Festival will take place Thursday, April 9-Saturday, April 11, 2026. Program A: LIGHTWORK will be performed on Thursday, April 9th and Saturday, April 11th at 7:30 PM (Doors open at 7PM). Program B: BELOVED FORMS, will be performed on Friday, April 10th at 7:30PM (Doors open at 7PM) and Saturday, April 11th at 4PM (Doors open at 3:30PM. Tickets can be reserved with a suggested donation of $5-$20. Free tickets are available. Reserve tickets at https://hampdance.ludus.com/