Performing Arts Series
Since 1984 the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has presented great artists and performances to Philadelphia-area audiences, creating an environment in which the value of the arts is recognized and celebrated.
Performing Arts Series 2024-25
A Christmas Carol + Holiday Treats!
Sun | Dec. 8, 2024 | 7PM
Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
"Electrifying!" –The Wall Street Journal
"A 95-minute masterpiece...brilliantly performed and staged." –The Philadelphia Inquirer
Acclaimed playwright and actor Anthony Lawton brings his one-person adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to the Performing Arts Series for a special one-night performance! Hear the story of Scrooge as if for the first time in this fresh retelling. Consider how we all risk becoming isolated and bitter, and how we can come back from the chill darkness of fear. Best for audiences age 12 and up.
Join us at 6PM for holiday festivities! We’ll have make-your-own ornaments and a hot cocoa bar!
The performance will start at 7PM.
FREE for Tri-Co!
A Wall Between Us
Workshop: Weds | Jan. 22, 2025 | Time TBD
Performances: Thurs-Fri | Jan. 23-24, 2025 | 7PM
Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
Two German scientists trying to belong.
Two border vigilantes on a secret mission.
Two unlikely lovers.
And 220 cardboard boxes.
London-based Single Shoe Productions’ A Wall Between Us combines video projection, visual storytelling and illusions to interweave three revealing stories, examining our need to belong to a place, how this affects us, others, and the land itself.
Join the Performing Arts Series for a free theater workshop with Single Shoe Productions on January 22, plus two opportunities to witness A Wall Between Us on January 23 and 24!
FREE for Tri-Co!
Jerron Herman Presents VITRUVIAN
Weds-Fri | Oct. 2-4, 2024
McPherson Auditorium, Goodhart Hall
Join the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series (PAS) and the Dance Program as we welcome guest artist Jerron Herman and delve into integrating disability beyond our normalization of representational patterns as quick-fix solutions.
October 2 from 4-6pm: Building VITRUVIAN Movement Workshop
In this movement workshop for every willing body, discover the limbs through awakening exercises that describe the relationship of the body across its planes. Enter the choreographic process through an artistic inquiry and embodied/performance research method created by guest artist Jerron Herman that supports his practice of intersecting disability and movement.
October 3 from 7-8:30pm: VITRUVIAN followed by Q&A
Hailed by the Brooklyn Rail as “a triumph of intention and reinvention, centering disability and celebrating Herman’s rebirth as his own divine form”, VITRUVIAN shares an allegorical tale of the life cycle of the Vitruvian man as he traverses multiple hemispheres, now in the embodiment of a Disabled Black man. Based on Da Vinci's famous sketch, the piece explores the ways natural phenomena and history enter and live in the body. VITRUVIAN has been featured on NY1 and CBS New York as a show to see. The full evening was commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and developed during artistic and scholastic residencies at the Petronio Residency Center and Georgetown University. Other presentations have included a site specific interpretation at Governor's Island and virtual showings for the Passport Program at Lincoln Center as well as a month-long screening season at Abrons Arts Center. VITRUVIAN was archived into the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts following its premiere.
October 4 from 10am-12p: The Porch: Beyond Disability Representation in a Multimodal World
Join the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series (PAS) and the Dance Program as we welcome guest artist Jerron Herman and delve into integrating disability beyond our normalization of representational patterns as quick-fix solutions. Affirming dynamic bodily existence requires us all to survey our relationships with and approaches to ableness. We can employ all platforms available to each us to provide more comprehensive agency to all of our being and bodies.
The Porch Series, created by Dr. Lela Aisha Jones, was described by renowned artist nia love as a “glitch in the institutional matrix” where artist/scholars partake in interdisciplinary call and response in dialogue and movement. These events aim to transport us to a time when folks still sit on multimodal porches to bask in the awe of collective brilliance that emerges from dismantling formalities and facilitating intellectual exchange uncaptured by limiting frameworks. Past porch events include The Porch: A Studio Dialogue with nia love and Fred Moten (2020) and The Porch: Interview & Embodied Interactive Dialogue with Nia Eubanks Dixon (2023).
Co-curated by the Bryn Mawr College Dance Program
De Tierra Caliente
Fri | Sept. 20, 2024 | 7PM
Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
We’re kicking off the 2024-25 Performing Arts Series with De Tierra Caliente! De Tierra Caliente is a dynamic Latin fusion band that ignites the air with vibrant colors and irresistible rhythms. Their music combines catchy melodies, unaffected lyrics, and a fusion of Latin, Caribbean, Brazilian and American rhythms, resulting in an unforgettable celebration of music and culture.
De Tierra Caliente delivers a musical experience that transcends cultural boundaries, reminding audiences of the simple pleasures that sometimes get overshadowed in the hustle of daily life. Their intoxicating songs in Spanish, English, and Portuguese resonate with the vibrant colors and familial warmth of a South American kitchen, leaving no one untouched by their infectious energy.
Co-presented by the Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies departments at Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College. In collaboration with Mujeres*
Providing talks and workshops free to the public to develop arts awareness and literacy, the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has partnered in recent seasons with such organizations as the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Ballet, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, and FringeArts. The Series has presented performances by such diverse luminaries as Trisha Brown Dance Company, Meredith Monk, John Waters, Jennifer Koh, the Khmer Arts Ensemble of Cambodia, Urban Bush Women, and Annie Dorsen.
The Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Contact the Arts Office at reservations@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-5300 for more information.