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As an umbrella organization we seek to unite the dance groups on campus, bring together the New Haven and Yale dance community and to work for more administrative support for dance on campus. We believe that there should be maximum cooperation within the campus dance community and that as the dance community grows it is important for us to work with the administration to accommodate their needs of rehearsal and performance space.



The Alliance for Dance at Yale is an umbrella organization which seeks to unite the dance groups on campus, bring together the New Haven and Yale dance community and to work for more administrative support for dance on campus. We book rehearsal space at Payne Whitney Gym for all undergraduate dance groups, and we host the Festival of Dance Groups during Opening Days for freshman. The Alliance automatically includes all members of dance groups on campus and is led by a board of directors who are elected by the larger membership each year. This board consists of 5 positions all of which may be held by 1 or 2 people: executive director publicity director treasurer outreach coordinator secretary Additionally a representative from each dance group who wishes to participate in ADAY activities will serve as a direct liason to the board and help in the planning and production of ADAY events. As an umbrella organization we seek to unite the dance groups on campus, bring together the New Haven and Yale dance community and to work for more administrative support for dance on campus. We believe that there should be maximum cooperation within the campus dance community and that as the dance community grows it is important for us to work with the administration to accomodate their needs of rehearsal and performance space. There are no membership requirements, though people wishing to hold office within ADAY must be currently enrolled undergraduates. Elections are held yearly in January. Interested candidate submit a candidate statement to the Alliance and are elected by majority vote.

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Yale's Asian American Collective of Theatermakers (AACT) aims to provide a centralized and welcoming social space for Asian American theatermakers at Yale that will (1) attract would-be Asian American theatermakers who would otherwise be deterred from doing theater for lack of a clearly defined Asian American theater community; and (2) enable Asian American students interested in making theater to network and collaborate with other Asian American artists.

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The Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History is concerned with providing an outlet for critical discourse around art for undergraduates, whether it be through practice or theory. Based in New Haven at Yale University, Asterisk* is one of the few peer-reviewed, intercollegiate, bi-annually published art and art history journals at the undergraduate level. We are dedicated to highlighting art historical narratives shedding light on topics that are often left to the margins. As part of our selection process, we reach out to over eighty different universities in search of high-quality, subversive essays and artworks that provoke new ways of thinking. We try to publish bi-annually with workshops, meetings and events hosted throughout the semester.

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Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de Yale was founded in the fall of 1998 by a group of undergraduate students dedicated to the expression of Mexican culture and traditional folk dance. Since its founding, the group has had the privilege of performing at numerous cultural and educational events at Yale, throughout Connecticut, and elsewhere in the Northeast. As the only Mexican folk dance group on campus, Ballet Folklórico does not hold auditions. Our goals are both diverse and ambitious: while providing an outlet for the exploration of our heritage, we seek to enrich students' cultural knowledge, and serve as a resource for greater Connecticut communities as well.

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The Berkeley College Orchestra is dedicated to the promotion of a musical presence on the Yale campus and the greater Connecticut area. To achieve this goal, the BCO provides a place for students to study and practice the performance of music without grades and seeks to foster a community of musicians with similar goals. To this end, BCO holds weekly rehearsals and three free public concerts during the school year and one educational concert for New Haven public school students.

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Founded in 2019, Cadence of Yale is Yale's premier competitive a cappella group. A regular participant in the annual International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), the group is dedicated to telling stories through music as well as to collaborating with the global a cappella community. Through original arrangements, choreography, and thoughtful music curation, Cadence seeks to unlock music's communicative power with every performance.

As an SATB group whose ever-changing repertoire spans all musical genres and draws influences from classical music, folk, rock, and pop culture alike, Cadence welcomes singers of all backgrounds and abilities. In a school that focuses so heavily on tradition, Cadence aims to break the mold.

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Casa de Bailes is an educational dance community at Yale dedicated to teaching various Latine music genres for social dancing. Our goal is to introduce these styles to non-dancers and those interested in Latine social dancing, offering opportunities they may not have had before. Through our “Dance History Archive" project, we provide resources on Latine music, dance examples, and music history for public learning. As a non-performance group, we emphasize creating inclusive spaces that foster community and welcome everyone. We host beginner-friendly workshops and socials (social dance opportunities), allowing students to learn, practice, and enjoy these dances in a comfortable environment. Our aim is to celebrate Latine culture and build a community characterized by love, trust, and belonging among Yale students of all dance backgrounds and experiences through Latine dance.

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We are a group of dancers, teachers, and people who love working with young people and come together twice a week to dance, laugh, and learn with our wonderful students. Our mission is to promote creative self-expression and mutual understanding through movement and creativity.

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The Davenport Pops Orchestra strives to provide the undergraduate community with a venue for student musicianship, specializing in uniquely pops repertoire. The Davenport Pops Orchestra is committed to bringing a different flavor of music to the Yale campus and hopes to reach a larger audience with its performances. Our primary goal is to encourage the diversification of student talent on campus and to provide undergraduates with a broader venue in which they can express themselves musically.

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The Davenport Pops Orchestra, affectionately known as DPops, is Yale's only pops orchestra! DPops is entirely student run, featuring student conductors, student arrangers, student musicians, and student board.

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Desta gives Yale students of Ethiopian and Eritrean descent the opportunity to preserve their native culture while sharing their customs and traditions with the rest of the community. We will equip our youth with a sense of identity through dance performance.

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Doox of Yale is an a cappella group founded in 1952 by Basil "Duke" Henning, former head of Saybrook College. The first tenor/bass group at Yale to become all-gender, Doox prides itself on both a rich history of tradition and forward-looking communal and musical values. From Drew Barrymore's birthday party to the Steinway Club of Puerto Rico, Kylemore Abbey to the White House, Doox has sung in venues across the world, entertaining audiences with heartfelt singing and tongue-in-cheek humor.

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Dzana exists as a means for different African cultures to interact and be showcased to the greater Yale community through dance.

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The Elm City Echo aims to promote awareness of homelessness and displacement by giving contributors a community-oriented platform to amplify their voices and experiences. The Echo empowers individuals through the process of sharing while centralizing creators' voices. Since 2011, student volunteers have worked with individuals experiencing extreme poverty and homelessness to record and publish the prose, poetry, and artwork. Each collaboration begins with volunteers visiting one of our community partners (Columbus House or Fellowship Place) to facilitate the storytelling process. Once a semester, we publish the pieces in a literary magazine that is freely distributed around New Haven.

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The purpose of the Guild of Bookmakers is to make the experience of bookbinding available to everyone on campus, to rekindle interest in bookbinding and the book arts, and to bring together people who share a love of bookbinding.

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The purpose of the Guild shall be to maintain a regular ringing schedule of the Yale Memorial Carillon in Harkness Tower during the academic year; to further the musical education of its members by, among other things, meeting regularly as a group to perform for each other and visiting other carillons at least once a year; to teach and train underclassmen in the art of carillon-playing during the annual Heel and to elect new members into the Guild after auditions at the end of Heel; to organize a carillon concert series each summer; to perform at official functions of the University; to maintain and further good relations with carillonneurs at other carillons around the world, the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America (GCNA), and the national carillon schools in Europe; to maintain and enlarge the library of music sheets and books and literature on campanology; and, to encourage general interest in the bells and the art of carillon-playing at the University and in New Haven.

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Harmony Healing is an organization devoted to spreading inspiration and hope through the power of music performance. Our mission is to bring free musical performances, instrument education, and opportunities to perform to underserved neighborhoods across New Haven. We believe music has the unique ability to unite, heal, and uplift individuals and entire communities. Through partnerships with New Haven public schools, healthcare centers, and other local organizations, Harmony Healing aims to make music accessible to all, regardless of age, background, or economic status. Activities include tutoring kids at New Haven public schools, performing at nursing homes/hospitals, and organizing events for club members and New Haven community members to play together..

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Hear Your Song is dedicated to giving children the opportunity to express themselves freely and have their voice amplified by song in clinical settings where they otherwise may not have the option for musical self-expression.

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The purpose of Heritage Theater Ensemble shall be to foster the development of Black theater in the Yale-New Haven community: to provide a forum for the expression of Black (and other minority) talent in all aspects of the performing arts and to generate and promote a collective, artistic consciousness within the organization. Similarly, Heritage Theater Ensemble's promotion of artistic endeavors within New Haven shall be a means of developing and sustaining Black (minority) arts as a means of politicizing art-production within the local community.

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The Joyous String Ensemble at Yale is dedicated to inspiring audiences and students through the power of music by redefining the possibilities of string and classical instrument performance. As a group at Yale, it would enrich the university’s cultural life by offering performances celebrating diversity and connecting communities through music. The ensemble encourages creative collaboration among students, bridging different backgrounds and perspectives while aligning with Yale’s commitment to leadership, innovation, and cultural exchange.

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Our mission is to promote creative expression through Double Dutch performance that integrates jump rope, dance, and acrobatic skills. We hope to foster a community for students interested in Double Dutch while celebrating the historical significance of the activity in Black and African American culture.

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Just Add Water, affectionately known as JAW, aims to provide the magic of musical improv comedy to the Yale Community and beyond during our on-campus shows, off-campus gigs, and semiannual tours around the United States. What's more, JAW provides an environment for Yale students to explore themselves and the world around them via improv. These tools have proven invaluable for our members, current and of legend, and explain in part why JAW is considered a second family by its members.

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Living Water is Yale's first Christian a cappella group. Founded in 1979, Living Water at Yale exists to spread the Gospel, the good news of God's love and desire for relationship with all of humankind fulfilled through Jesus Christ. As a group, we spread the Gospel by sharing our testimonies of God's faithfulness, singing music that tells His story, glorifying Him through our craft, and reflecting His love and truth in our service toward Yale, New Haven, our respective home communities, and each other.

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Low Strung provides cellists with the opportunity to explore new kinds of cello playing and perform for audiences on campus and worldwide.

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Lux Improvitas seeks to explore the possibilities and boundaries of improvisation. While the central medium for much of this exploration is the "improvised play" (and its derivatives), every iteration of the Lux Improvitas ensemble should feel encouraged to explore styles of improv beyond this format and to create new forms of its own. We believe in creativity, in change, and in community.

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Magevet's mission is to bring a diverse range of Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli music to communities around the world.

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MAISON is a fashion and art collective that aims to spearhead creative expression at Yale through outlets including fashion shows, photoshoots, speaker events, and more. We provide a platform where student creatives can showcase their work and connect with one another, other local creatives, and beyond. Our focus is to be a space where all fashion enthusiasts and artists, regardless of experience, can fulfill their artistic vision.

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Mariachi Luz y Verdad de Yale is a Yale undergraduate Traditional Mariachi group for students who celebrate Mexican culture and inspire others to do the same. We beautify our campus with Mexican folklore music and entertainment. In collaboration with Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de Yale, we will showcase performances that bring awareness, love, culture, and representation to the Mexican and Latine communities on campus. It serves all students by contributing to the diverse Yale campus and providing the means for cultural appreciation.

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Mixed Company is an undergraduate organization formed primarily to promote public appreciation of group harmony singing and to educate students at Yale and other educational institutions and the general public about such music.

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The goals of MonstRAASity are: To provide an opportunity for students to learn and observe the Gujarati folkdance Raas; to perform at cultural events and other venues across the University; to contribute to the cultural diversity of the University community by means of sharing Gujarati culture.

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Yale Movement is a dance and performing arts organization that focuses on Korean pop and open style choreography. We provide a fun, supportive, and constructive outlet to Yale students and the greater New Haven community. We hope to learn and grow together as a team through our creative interests.

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The Opera Theatre of Yale College (OTYC) is the undergraduate opera company at Yale University. Our organization is entirely student-run; every show offers our members the opportunity to learn firsthand the mechanics of performing and producing an opera. Our members are singers, instrumentalists, conductors, theatre technicians, costume and set designers, choreographers, and dancers. OTYC is an immersive extracurricular experience that prepares young artists and administrators for professional life after Yale. We are committed to bringing creative, thoughtful, and innovative opera productions to the Yale and New Haven communities.

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¡Oye! is a performance group dedicated to creating a space for poetry and performance on Yale's campus. We welcome all members of the Yale Community. No experience necessary (most members have never performed or written poetry prior to ¡Oye!)

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Passion Pole Dance (PPD) is a space for people with a solid foundation in pole dance to grow their talents and practice different styles. To do this, PPD hosts regular workshops and practices for Yale undergraduate students. We will also hold non-pole workshops for individuals without a pole background. We welcome all levels, genders, and body types.

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Pastry Arts at Yale is an undergraduate organization that will foster camaraderie and fellowship among those with a shared love for pastry arts. It seeks to build a collaborative community for developing advanced pastry skills and professional techniques, while also holding bake sales to donate proceeds to charitable causes.

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Peristalsis serves to bring light movement and dance classes to patients at the Yale-New Haven Hospital pediatric psychiatric unit.

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Pitches & Tones was founded in 2011 as an a cappella group independent of all other singing groups and councils. We perform a variety of member-arranged songs covering a broad spectrum of genres, often coupled with innovative choreography. Our objective is to find creative, entertaining, and enriching ways to share our passion for music with audiences both at Yale and beyond. Giving back is also central to our members, and we often perform at several informal charity events each year.

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Proof of the Pudding was founded to extend the male-dominated tradition of a cappella at Yale to women and continues today for that same goal. Proof strives to make music at the highest level and provide group members with the opportunity to perform for audiences on campus and around the world. Above all, Proof aims to fulfill our mission of cultivating sisterhood and song that lives on for future generations.

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Red Hot Poker produces live sketch comedy onstage and video sketches to be published on our website and YouTube channel. We have roughly four live performances a semester.

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Red Lantern is a dance troupe focused on celebrating the beauty of Chinese traditional and folkloric dance. Outside of semester performances, we host open workshops and perform at other student events to share our love for Chinese dance with the greater Yale community.

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Through the dedication of our members, past and present, we've come together to chase the bounds of musical possibility, while always looking back to the greats who inspired the conception of Redhot & Blue. We are dedicated to maintaining our history of strong musicality, both vocally and with our arrangements, all of which are created by current or former members, as well as sharing that musicality with audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

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Rhythmic Blue aims to bring primarily hip hop but a mix of dance styles to the Yale community. We pride ourselves in being a very welcoming, diverse, and fun performance group. Outside of our semester shows we love to perform at other student run events and open up hip hop classes through workshops to the Yale community.

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Sabrosura's mission is to promote and practice cultural expression and celebration through the medium of Latin dance. We hope to provide a space for students interested in Latin Dance, regardless of their cultural backgrounds, to teach and share their love of Latin Dance with Yale and New Haven communities.

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Shades is an all gender a cappella group founded to celebrate music of the African Diaspora. It is our objective to offer a unique, musically excellent, and spiritually enriching performance experience to audiences at Yale University and beyond. Drawing from the diverse backgrounds of our members and the oral traditions of Black people across the globe, we strive to portray authentically the complexity of the Black experience. In addition to mastering the style of our music, we develop an appreciation of its history and roots in order to educate audiences about our music's lineage.

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The Singing Group Council serves as the administrator for the majority of Yale's a cappella community. Our primarily duties are to facilitate the audition process at the start of the year, organize groups' concert dates throughout the second semester, and serve as a liaison between Yale's a cappella community and performance venues in New Haven.

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Something Extra has historically showcased women's voices on a broad range of self-arranged musical compositions. Now, SE welcomes and promotes all SSAA singers and continues to foster empowerment and community while sharing our music and passion.

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Step is an African American dance form developed first by South African miners as an alternative to drumming, a previously banned activity. There is a vibrant step dance tradition in the South, but in the Northeast many people have never even heard of it. Steppin' Out aims to share this great history and culture with the Yale community, both by making the otherwise unknown style visible in the first place and by celebrating the diversity of our membership.

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Tangled Up in Blue (TUIB) provides a musical space for students passionate about creating and sharing folk music. Through on-campus performances and tours, TUIB (pronounced twihb) shares that love of folk music with our larger communities, from Yale itself to the towns that members are from.

Our group has repertoire that ranges from the bluegrass tunes of the Appalachians to traditional Irish ballads, the folk-rock hits of Bob Dylan to the jams of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, and Simon & Garfunkel. We sing four-part folk harmonies and accompany ourselves on guitar, banjo, fiddle, viola, mandolin, and harmonica.

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Taps at Yale allows dancers to continue to explore their love of Tap Dance and to share that love with the wider Yale and New Haven communities.

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Founded on the principle that the stage is a powerful medium for cultural expression, Teatro de Yale is dedicated to the exploration of Latinidad in the context of the performing arts. Our mission is to amplify the voices of diverse Latino dramatists, offering a platform for their narratives to resonate. Our stage is a space for community, empowerment, and the continual celebration of our cultural tapestry.

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The Baker's Dozen is an all-male undergraduate a Cappella group. In 2010, the Baker's Dozen formalized our commitment to spreading our passion for music by incorporating as a Connecticut non-profit (503(c)(3)) organization.

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We aim to promote student filmmaking on campus, both through technical training and community building. We are committed to showcasing diverse stories and encouraging creativity and collaboration within the student body.

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Control Group meets on a regular basis to train and generate content for upcoming work. We draw from techniques and styles that are idiosyncratic to Control Group as well as from the expertise and experience of current members. Control Group is constantly redefining itself to address the interests of current members and the contemporary possibilities and challenges of live performance.

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The Cucumber is a place for people of all levels of experience to do stand-up comedy.

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We are an improv group that likes to have fun and be funny! We perform, teach, and learn improv comedy as a close-knit group of friends. We also go on two tours every year, taking our comedy to cities across the United States! Follow our Instagram @exitplayers for show announcements. Auditions every fall, no experience needed. Are you Ex!t?

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As Yale's oldest sketch comedy group, we write and perform original sketches on and beyond campus.

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To perform Late Night style comedy!

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The New Blue brings together a diverse group of singers who perform SSAA music and who form lifelong connections to each other in the process.

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Our idea is to create a hybrid organization of sketch and standup with an impact not only on campus, but beyond. This is the first of its kind on the Yale campus and provides room for students who can 1) either focus on stand up and sketch comedy directly, or 2) try their hat at both and not sacrifice one over the other. This also allows for a nice change of pace for our audience, who can watch two different forms of comedy in one show.

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We are an improv comedy group that performs long-form improvisational sets sometimes in the form known as the "Harold." Our mission is to laugh and spread laughter.

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The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus travels the country and world to spread music and joy to all audiences while giving its members a chance to grow as musicians and people.

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Founded in 1914, the Spizzwinks(?) of Yale University are America's oldest underclassmen a cappella group, dedicated to the promotion of group harmony singing to foster support for music and the arts.

Taking each 'wink to perform on all six inhabited continents and their hometown, the Spizzwinks are committed to singing, family, service, and music education.

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We are a group of improvisers and friends who aim to make you laugh.

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The mission of The Writer's Room is to provide an open, inclusive, and stress-free environment for individuals to engage with fellow lovers of literature through their creative work. The organization offers individuals a productive and enjoyable opportunity to write, edit, and share their creative work among an inspired and supportive community of their peers.

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Purpose: The Yale Alley Cats is a world-renowned undergraduate a-cappella group founded in 1943. Our mission is to sing wonderful music together, become better musicians through vocal performance and rehearsal, to share our music to Yale's campus and audiences across the world, and, most of all, to cultivate meaningful friendships that last a lifetime. Although initially founded as a Jazz group, our over-400-song repertoire ranges all the way from Harry Styles to Michael Jackson. As the first internationally-touring undergraduate group at Yale, The Yale Alley Cats have funded trips to Beijing, Sydney, Istanbul, and on our most recent tour, to Geneva, Doha, and Cape Town. We've had the pleasure to perform for icons such as President Barack Obama, collaborate with Grammy-winning singers and songwriters, and release several albums, with a new album coming this year! As one of Yale's oldest a-cappella groups, The Yale Alley Cats strive to uphold the strong tradition of a-cappella music that has become such a signature of Yale's student life.

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User Experience Society, also known as Design at Yale (DAY), is an undergraduate design community and studio run from Yale. We empower Yale undergraduates through design education, enlighten them to the power of design, and nurture them to create meaningful products for the community. We are a creative community for all undergraduates interested in design and its intersections.

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As of 1981, Yale's vibrant a cappella scene featured a dozen underclassman groups of every variety. However, seven senior women felt that a key part of their musical experience was missing – a senior group. These seven seniors founded Whim n' Rhythm as an answer to the decades-old tradition of The Whiffenpoofs. Thirty-six years later, the 13 singers of Whim n' Rhythm represent the best and most experienced female musicians of the senior class.

Each year, Whim has continued to grow into a full-force presence on Yale's campus and on both the national and international stages. The group tours domestically and in the greater New England area yearly, visiting locations from New York and Los Angeles to Hong Kong and Cairo, and recently founded a full-fledged Alumnae Board to help build the group's legacy from beyond Yale's campus. Post-commencement, the group traditionally takes a five-to-seven week World Tour, hitting nearly every continent.

Prospective singers audition in the spring of their junior year to be tapped into Whim for their senior year the following fall. Whim represents nearly every underclassman singing group, a variety of residential colleges and academic majors, and hometowns ranging from coast to coast.

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WORD is Yale's oldest and hypest spoken word group. We are a community of writers dedicated to sharing performance poetry with the Yale community, New Haven, and beyond. We organize performances on campus, conduct workshops with K-12 schools, and create collaborative art with other student groups. As a resident group of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, we recognize the Black legacies that gave rise to spoken word and aim to extend those legacies to upcoming writers of all backgrounds during their four years at Yale.

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The Yale Anti-Gravity Society aims to bring together jugglers and people with other circus-related talents of all skill levels so that we may learn from one another and grow as entertainers and performers. Juggling along with other circus arts is intrinsically a group activity, and we aim to create a supportive space where anyone with any interest in such activities can share their passion with other like-minded individuals and possibly collaborate on performances.

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The Yale Artists Cabaret (YAC) cultivates community and connection among the undergraduate performance artist circles on campus by providing frequent, collaborative, experimental, and accessible performance opportunities.

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YAFTA aims to connect and educate undergraduate students seeking to pursue successful careers in the entertainment industry through a dynamic series of professional, educational, and networking programming events. YAFTA provides an opportunity for students hoping to pursue careers in all areas of television, film, and entertainment to connect with similarly focused peers and current industry leaders. YAFTA seeks to serve those interested in becoming producers, content creators, writers, actors, directors, talent managers, casting professionals, investors, and many other important constituents of the entertainment community.

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Avaaz is Yale’s premier all-gender South Asian a capella group. “Avaaz” means “voice”, which is exactly how this student-run group shares their love for music. By mixing styles and genres across all decades, we bring the unique sounds of South Asian culture to the a capella stage.

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Our mission is to celebrate and share the rich tapestry of Brazilian music and culture at Yale University. We aim to provide a vibrant and inclusive space where the entire campus community can experience the warmth, diversity, and spirit of Brazil. Through performances, workshops, and cultural events, we seek to create a 'Brazilian home away from home,' fostering an environment of learning, appreciation, and enjoyment for Brazilian music and its profound cultural heritage. Our organization is dedicated to uniting people through the universal language of music, promoting cultural exchange, and enriching the campus experience with the unique rhythms and melodies of Brazil.

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Breaking (or breakdancing) is an athletic dance form rooted in hip-hop culture. Yale Breakers provides scheduled breaking practices and rehearsals. We also organize dance events, host workshops, and enter in national breaking competitions.

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The mission of Yale's Children's Theater is to share the joy of theatre arts with Yalies and New Haven youth.

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Yale Dabke's mission is to celebrate Levantine culture through dance and visual art. We honor our heritage by performing traditional Dabke and sharing its vibrant history. Our aim is to unite people in celebration of our rich traditions and spark creativity that inspires cultural dialogue.

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Danceworks is committed to spreading the love of dance to everyone, catering to all styles and levels of experience, and giving everyone an opportunity to learn, improve, and perform!

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Yale Dhvani aims to promote Classical Indian music on campus in the forms of Carnatic and Hindustani styles, both vocal and instrumental. Through rehearsals and performances, the club serves to enhance individual classical styles while harmoniously integrating multiple distinct styles in a "jugalbandhi."

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In order to foster communication and collaboration within the undergraduate theater community and provide resources to students who wish to enhance their theatrical experience, the Yale Drama Coalition (YDC) is dedicated to acting as an organizational body in support of the performance community at Yale. We seek to both offer support for individual productions and also advocate on behalf of the theater community before the Yale administration.

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The Yale Film Society is dedicated to the appreciation and presentation of films on campus for students by students. The Yale Film Society's main offerings include hosting and promoting screenings, social networking events between Yale student cinephiles, and the publication of a biweekly newsletter promoting film-related events around campus, announcing upcoming screenings, and publishing YFS content.

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The Yale Handbell Ensemble strives to promote the performance and appreciation of handbell music at Yale University. Our primary goal is to encourage the diversification of student talent on campus and to provide undergraduates with a broader venue in which they can express themselves musically.

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Yale Modern Dance Collective is dedicated to providing a place for a diverse group of dancers to sharpen and broaden their technical abilities and to develop artistically as both dancers and choreographers.

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Yale Out of the Blue (OOTB for short, pronounced "oot-bah") is a co-ed, undergraduate, pop-rock A Cappella group founded in 1986. Our primary aim is produce an innovative branch of A Cappella that delights audiences of all ages across the world. Within our group, we strive to foster an inclusive community, where people representing different backgrounds come together and sing in harmony. We aim to maintain a diverse repertoire of songs to include not only varying genres, but also artists of color.

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Yale Rangeela is Yale University's first and only Bollywood fusion dance team. We seek to expose Yale's campus to a variety of fused dance styles and bring our vibrant energy to the stage.

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The Russian Chorus aims to provide a musical home for students with an interest in our unique repertoire and history. We bring cultures and people together through our outreach efforts in communities ranging from local churches to foreign concert halls.

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The Yale Shakespeare Club seeks to foster a love of Shakespeare's works. Both long-time bardolators and Shakespeare novices are welcome to explore together the "infinite variety" of Shakespeare through many media, such as reading, film, scholarship, and performance. We also facilitate frequent, low-stress Shakespeare performances on campus for anyone to enjoy or perform—the best way to fall in love with the bard.

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Our purpose is to share our love of traditional Eastern European, Balkan, and Georgian vocal music.

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From preindustrial tribes gathering together for a common collective cause to affinity groups at Yale, the idea of in-groups and out-groups is what makes society what we know it as today. We have our people, and then we have everyone else. Though this is not inherently problematic, it goes without saying that the separation of people into these groups has caused tremendous pain throughout history. Religion, race, sex, and so much more separate us and make it hard to relate to those on the other side. But regardless of background or group, there is one factor that brings humanity together: the arts. In times such as these where the world is so divided, we hope to play our part in bridging the gaps of hatred and misunderstanding through music. We want to start a student Arabic Orchestra Ensemble to bring our culture’s music to Yale. We hope to play music from prominent Egyptian artists like Umm Kulthum and Abdel Halim Hafiz and show an often misunderstood culture in a beautiful light.

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To appreciate, discuss, research, and document the architectural heritage at Yale - that is, in and around the Yale campus. This will consist of regular meetings for members, architecturally-oriented group perambulations, and research/cataloging of interesting features

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The Yale Student Film Festival (YSFF) is a platform that uplifts unique student voices from around the world. We seek to amplify stories that only students can tell, and build global and local communities of young filmmakers who can support each other as they enter the entertainment industry.

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The Yale Student Fragrance Organization is Yale's first and only club that allows students to create and engage with perfumes & fragrances. Join us to create your signature scent in one of our workshops!

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Our goal is to spread a love of Irish dance with those with and without experience encouraging a fun environment to preserve and celebrate Irish culture.

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Everyone is welcome to join no matter their previous experience or physical ability!!

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The Yale Student Klezmer Band aims to spread appreciation for Klezmer by teaching its members to be Klezmer musicians and by hosting performances throughout the year.

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Y-SMAB brings traditional, African marimba and percussion to Yale, to properly demonstrate where the marimba originated, the power of its music, and the community it can bring together when played joyfully in groups.

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The Yale Student Songwriters' Collective is an organization for undergraduate students that provides a space for Yale's songwriters to come together, collaborate, receive feedback, and learn from each other. Our primary goal is to help all levels of songwriters cultivate their songwriting skills. We also aim to introduce students to other aspects of songwriting including production, business, and branding through guest speakers and forums. Lastly, we provide a platform for Yale students to perform and promote their music in a variety of private and public venues. Ultimately, the YSC strives to bring creators from all sides of Yale together to explore their artistry in a supportive community.

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The purpose of YBC is to provide a space for students to continue dancing during their college careers, and to bring ballet to all interested students on Yale's campus. For company members, this includes not only weekly practice of ballet technique, but also choreographic opportunities and performances. The goal of the company is to successfully teach students about ballet and provide a space for students to practice and improve their technique, while also keeping them excited and engaged about the art form.

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The Yale Undergraduate Chamber Choir is committed to providing an inclusive space that champions the work of student conductors, composers, and performers. YUCC nurtures the growth of aspiring musicians and provides a collaborative, low stress environment that gives interested students the opportunity to develop and showcase their skills.

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Our purpose at YUCO is to bring oft-ignored chamber orchestra masterpieces into the limelight at Yale. Works like Strauss's Metamorphosen, Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, and the Lark Ascending are often excluded from the repertoire of current Yale ensembles. This is due to both instrumentation restrictions in the case of YSO, as well as the limits of coordinating personnel for repertoire that require a high technical and musical level.

YUCO is also a space for introducing new works for chamber orchestra into the repertoire. YUCO provides a space for up-and-coming composers to premiere their works in a welcoming, pre-professional environment, one that supports recordings for competitions and auditions. In addition to composers, YUCO can also be a meaningful stepping stone for conductors and instrumentalists on their way to graduate school and on their career paths.

YUCO is, first and foremost, a performance ensemble dedicated to fulfilling its members' musical dreams and introducing repertoire to musicians and audience members alike that would have never played or heard otherwise.

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The Yale DJ Collective aims to create a space for people passionate about electronic music through practical and educational opportunities dedicated to aspiring and current DJs. YDC will host weekly meetings where members will practice new skills, workshops geared toward people first learning how to DJ, and showcases throughout the semester. YDC members will push the boundaries of music by creating live mashups, making each song their own.

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The Yale Undergraduate Fiber Arts and Crafting Society seeks to bring Yale College students together through a shared love of the crafting arts. This is a club meant for people of all levels, from absolute novices to expert crafters. This group emphasizes the importance of learning, teaching, and growing together, both in terms of artistic ability as well as emotional fulfillment. We encourage people to recognize the benefit that non-competitive and non-academic art can have on one's mental health. We seek to build a vibrant and diverse group of creatives where everyone can find community and hopefully a useful new skill.

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Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ through song

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Yale Jashan Bhangra is a dance troupe that celebrates the vibrant South Asian dance known as bhangra. Our purpose is to connect the greater Yale population to the fun, colorful traditions of South Asia through on-campus performances, workshops, and cultural events.

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The Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective aims to foster a community around jazz music on campus. We host concerts, discussions, jam sessions, and masterclasses to establish both performance and educational opportunities for students and members of the New Haven community. In addition, we lobby for a formal jazz curriculum at Yale.

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The Yale Kalaa is a hub through which undergraduate and graduate dancers trained in Indian classical styles, including Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, and Kathak styles, practice and perform for various events on campus. 'Kalaa' (pronounced "kuh-laa") is a Sanskrit word meaning "a skilled craft." Through Yale Kalaa, we use our craft to celebrate and share the joy of classical Indian dance.

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The Yale Undergraduate Photography Society aims to share the vast photographic resources on campus, display student work, advise beginners, and serve as a network for student photographers.

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One of the hallmarks of Yale College is its renowned musical community. Outstanding instrumental musicians on campus frequently perform together in such well-regarded ensembles as the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Yale Concert Band. Pianists, however, are required only in small numbers for these groups and may therefore find themselves somewhat isolated in their musical pursuit. Therefore, the Yale Undergraduate Piano Collective exists to promote greater musical and social cohesion among the undergraduate pianists at Yale. In particular, the YUPC organizes "studio classes," wherein pianists to play for each other to receive feedback and encounter fresh perspectives, and public performances, with an emphasis on collaborative repertoire for four, six, and eight hands.

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The Yale Dramat is dedicated to producing inclusive and diverse theater - that is accessible to the Yale - New Haven community and intends to impact these communities, through conversation, performance, and education, - as well as upholding the Dramat's long tradition of fine theater.

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Yaledancers is Yale's oldest premier dance company. Since 1973, YD has provided Yale student dancers with access to high-caliber training and performance opportunities. Yaledancers stages semesterly company shows and performs at other University functions, all of which showcase original student choreography. In addition to rehearsals for these shows, YD meets twice weekly for classes, taught by both company members and industry professionals.

The company practices and performs a wide variety of dance styles, including classical and contemporary ballet, jazz, contemporary, tap, musical theatre, modern dance, and more. The organization strives to bring dancers from diverse backgrounds together to share their art with the Yale community. YD also provides a social outlet and sense of community for members, creating lasting friendships among both graduate and undergraduate students.

Yaledancers is a founding member of the Alliance for Dance at Yale. ADAY serves as a collective forum for dance groups at Yale and provides classes and support to the Yale dance community.

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