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Yale Dance Lab

Yale Dance Lab

The Yale Dance Lab was founded in 2011 to promote community, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and activism through dance at Yale and beyond. Fostering partnerships with schools and departments across the university, the Dance Lab emphasizes creative practice as a unique form of research. Even as the discipline, ritual, and repetition inherent in the practice of dance forms the Lab’s core knowledge, Dance Lab members expand and connect their work to some of the most powerful social and political ideas of our time.

Find out more about our mission in our About Us page.

To date we have undertaken projects with Twyla Tharp (2011), Merce Cunningham Trust (2012), Reggie Wilson (2013), Akram Khan (2013), Trisha Brown (2014), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2015), Matthew Rushing (2015), Gaga USA and LeeSaar The Company (2016), Urban Bush Women (2017), Paul Taylor Dance Company (2018), Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane Dance Company (2019), Vicky Shick (2020), Sage Nai’ja Whitson (2021), Emily Coates and Lacina Coulibaly (2022-2023), Ishmael Houston-Jones (2024), Eiko Otake (2024), Jodi Melnick (2024), Jamar Roberts (2025), Ayodele Casel and Torya Beard (2025), Max Pollak (2025), Renée Robinson (2020, 2026), and Sarah Michelson (2026).

Our latest project; Rhythm