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Berkeley Dance Project Returns for 2025

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The Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) teaches performance as a mode of critical inquiry, innovation, creativity, knowledge production, and public engagement. Learn more.

Academic Programs

Department News

Staff Spotlight: Megan Lowe, Program Associate

April 16, 2025

Remembering Ben Dillon

March 11, 2025

Faculty in the Field: Winter/Spring Performances & Publications

January 21, 2025

Philip Kan Gotanda brings new opera to UC Berkeley, Feb. 15–16

December 20, 2024

Media Mentions

February 10, 2025

Feb 10

For 50 years, he’s written about the Japanese American internment. Now, he’s turning to opera. (Berkeley News)

Feb 10

Rising Stars: Meet Megan Lowe (Performance Studies '12)

September 24, 2024

Sep 24

Two centuries later, performance spaces still struggle with ‘soft censorship’ (Berkeley News)

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