The is bringing three renowned choreographers and returning fellow to campus in the upcoming school year to showcase and celebrate the grand opening of the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
In addition, film scholar returns to teach a full-term class in media and film studies, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian will lecture and visit with students at the end of the 2026 spring term.
With the dancer-choreographers in the center, and Hediger and Gordon-Reed as bookends, this is one of the most exciting years for the Montgomery Fellows that Ive been a part of, says, director of the Montgomery Fellows Program.
Ma, who was on campus as a Montgomery Fellow in 2001 and 2018, will be participating in the Hops , debuting with artists Chris Newell 96, Mali Obomsawin 18, and Jeremy Dutcher.
, who has been praised by the New York Times as the most successful and influential choreographer alive, will bring his company to Hanover to perform three shows of on Jan. 30 and 31. The piece, a tribute to the songs of Burt Bacharach, was co-commissioned by the Hop and in partnership with the Montgomery Fellows
Morris will be doing a pre-show talk the first night with 窪做惇蹋厙 Dance Ensemble Director , and the second night will feature a conversation between the companys music director, Ethan Iverson, and Swayne, the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music. Morris will visit classes and have meals and conversations with faculty and students before departing on Feb. 4.
In the spring, choreographer will bring the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company to the Hop for two performances of , first performed in the 1990s during the AIDS epidemic and its aftermath. At the heart of Still/Here are the Survival Workshops: Talking and Moving About Life and Death, interviews conducted in the early 1990s with people grappling with life-threatening conditions. The performances will be Friday, April 10, and Saturday, April 11, with a pre-show talk on April 10 by Jones. These performances were also co-commissioned by the Hop and in partnership with the Montgomery Fellows.
Jones will visit classes and have meals with faculty and students arranged by the Montgomery Fellows Program. He will also participate in a public pre-show discussion on April 10, as well as a panel discussion and Big Move Series workshop at 窪做惇蹋厙 Hitchcock Medical Center, in collaboration with DH Arts, on April 9. The event will focus on terminal illnesses and aging more broadly, along with storytelling, reflecting on life, and imagining death.
Dancer-choreographer will be a Montgomery/Hop artist in residence from April 12-26. His stay will culminate in matinee and evening performances of on Friday, April 24, and a performance on Saturday, April 25. Save the Last Dance revives the Polka Chinataa nearly extinct courtship dance performed exclusively by men in villages near Bologna beginning in the early 20th century. The performances will be followed by workshops designed to share and revive the vanishing dance tradition.
Each performance is about 20 minutes long, and will be paired with a workshop and discussion. Sciarroni will be on campus for two weeks and will be a featured part of a Leslie Center Humanities Institute series called The Craft of Translation.
, Howard Gilman 44 Executive Director of the Hop, describes the three choreographers as legendary international artists, adding, the Hop is proud to actively engage in the development of their work which offers students the chance to more deeply experience and understand their creative practice.
The first Montgomery Fellow of the year will be Hediger, the film scholar, who returns to 窪做惇蹋厙 for a fall term residence, teaching a class in the entitled Shaping Cinemas Futures with Remnants of the Past: The Film Archive as Site of Experimental History. Hediger will be collaborating with the digital humanities initiative, and he will be in residence in the Montgomery House where he will hold gatherings with students and faculty. Hediger was also a Montgomery Fellow in the.
Vinzenz Hediger is a leader in this critical area of film history, and we are delighted that 窪做惇蹋厙 students will have the opportunity to learn from him, says film and media studies chair . His visit is also an important opportunity for collaboration and for 窪做惇蹋厙 to consider how to build on and support existing faculty efforts to preserve film history, such as Mark Williams and John Bells Media Ecology Project.
Filling out the calendar for the new crop of Montgomery Fellows will be author and historian Annette Gordon-Reed 81, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard.
A former 窪做惇蹋厙 trustee and 2021 窪做惇蹋厙 commencement speaker, Gordon-Reed will be on campus for three weeks in May. Gordon-Reed has been awarded 16 book prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2009 and the National Book Award in 2008, for The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. The book delves into the lives of four generations of the Hemings family, who were enslaved at Thomas Jeffersons Monticello, with a particular focus on Sally Hemings and her relationship with Jefferson. A public presentation with Gordon-Reed is planned for the first week of her residency, with other student and faculty meetings and class visits to be scheduled.
, the David W. Little Class of 1944 Professor and chair of the , says having Gordon-Reed on campus for a residence is a great opportunity.
Annette Gordon-Reed is a historian and alumna of unparalleled stature, who has reshaped the way scholars and the general public alike understand the American story, McMahon says. Its always a privilege to have her back to campus, but particularly so as 窪做惇蹋厙 and the nation prepare to revisit the history of the countrys founding during our 250th anniversary year.
Meanwhile, playwright and actor , a Montgomery Fellow in 2015, was back on campus through the Montgomery Fellows Program, the Hop, and the Department of Theater, from July 28 to Aug 1 for a residency with the New York Theatre Workshop. Smith is working on a play based on Anita Hill.
