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Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College Performing arts center at Dartmouth College, igniting and sustaining a passion for the arts. Art facilities include workshops, studios, and galleries.
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The Hopkins Center, designed by Wallace Harrison, the architect of Lincoln Center and the United Nations Building in New York City, has served as the cultural hub of the Dartmouth College campus in Hanover, NH, since it first opened in November 1962. In 1988 the “Hop” was named by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the nation’s exemplary performing arts centers. Each year the Hop sells over 125,000 tickets to 100 or more live performances in virtually all genres of music, theater and dance, plus well over 200 film screenings and other events. The Hop also houses classrooms, studios and other facilities, as well as the offices of the Departments of Music, Theater, Film & Media Studies, and Studio Art. The Hop offers a wide variety of co-curricular activities for arts majors and non-majors alike, and all Dartmouth students are eligible to participate on stage or behind the scenes. The Hop produces and presents the work of 8 professionally directed student music and dance ensembles. The Hop’s Student Workshops program provides well-equipped woodworking, jewelry and pottery studio facilities, and offers professional instruction from beginning to advanced levels. Venues at the Hopkins Center include the 900-seat Spaulding Auditorium, the 480-seat Moore Theater, the Warner Bentley Theater, a flexible “black box” space with up to 180 seats, a small recital hall, plus rehearsal and practice rooms for music and drama.

What a year for the Hop community… breathtaking artists, deep experiences and new connections.With the Hop’s opening, we...
10/22/2026

What a year for the Hop community… breathtaking artists, deep experiences and new connections.

With the Hop’s opening, we gained incredible new spaces for experimentation, gathering, discovery and joy. We welcomed a new era for the arts at Dartmouth!

The dedication of the Daryl and Steven Roth Wing featured inspiring words from Mindy Kaling ’01, Sian Beilock, Ash Fure and Mary Lou Aleskie among others.

Opening Weekend overflowed with inspiring experiences … a world premiere of ‘We Are Water’ by Yo-Yo Ma H’19, Jeremy Dutcher, mali obomsawin ’18 and Chris Newell ’96, arts workshops by alumnae like Mindy Kaling, Shonda Rhimes, connie britton, Rachel Dratch and Alexi …
.. a site-specific dance by PILOBOLUS , vibrant concerts by Renee Elise Goldsberry, Hans Williams, and Dartmouth’s talented student artists scattered throughout.

The Hop now pulses with community in a multitude of creative spaces. The Top of the Hop has become the campus’s gathering space. A place to congregate for pre-show happy hours, late-night dance parties…

And student performances during our new Five-to-Seven series, powered by the HopFellows

Pioneering artists and educators share their artistry and ideas with our students and guests through public talks (Roth Visiting Scholar Nona Hendryx and visionary playwright Lynn Nottage) and classroom visits (Jason Moran).

And even the youngest in our community engage through workshops and our popular free HopStop series, including one where kids tried their hands at circus arts on the Hop Plaza.

Visitors even got to get hands-on with the nets of Noli Timere and our free summer concert series brought joy to hundreds on the Green.

Dartmouth students have started to cook 🔥—student thespians were back on stage in The Moore for ‘American Idiot’…

HopFellows are a vibe and a force—organizing festivals like HanUnder, our weekly Five-to-Seven series and projects that weave between artistic disciplines.

The legendary Student Workshops are filling back up with students eager to learn a craft, make something beautiful or simply decompress from the day.

Student artists are testing out new state-of-the art performance spaces and flo

10/14/2026

So much happening in the David A. Graves Stage in Spaulding Auditorium this fall! From jazz (TONITE) to classical to ensembles to indie rock, we’ve got it all in the next 4 weeks.

10/14/2026

What motivates the vivacious jazz vocalist Julia Keefe? New episodes of the Hop Sessions—including this one featuring a rich conversation and concert recording of Julia Keefe’s Indigenous Big Band—air in November on NHPR. Catch her concert tonight at the Hop🎙️

🗓️ Wed 10/14 at 7:30 PM
📍Spaulding Auditorium

Join us on a listening journey Fri, Oct 23 as Kronos Quartet presents ‘Three Bones,’ a multimedia experience of three di...
10/12/2026

Join us on a listening journey Fri, Oct 23 as Kronos Quartet presents ‘Three Bones,’ a multimedia experience of three distinct cultures in America.

Big band brilliance meets Native storytelling... we can’t wait for Julia Keefe 🎤 🎺 🥁
10/06/2026

Big band brilliance meets Native storytelling... we can’t wait for Julia Keefe 🎤 🎺 🥁

10/02/2026

La Plaza 🙏for sharing your wonderful work… and your wonderful selves. We are uplifted!

09/29/2026

¡Bienvenidos La Plaza! We are thrilled, honored and ready for your reimagined Hamlet 👑

Playful, powerful and full of joy... Hamlet features eight actors with Down syndrome. The Peruvian company brings their show to the Hop this week as part of its global tour 🇵🇪

📍The Moore Theater
🗓️ Wed 9/30 & Thu 10/1 Only!

🙏🏻 Teatro La Plaza & Theatre for a New Audience
📹 by Travis Emery Hackett.

Between Climate Week and a cultural roundtable in NYC, Hop Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie was struck by the importa...
09/25/2026

Between Climate Week and a cultural roundtable in NYC, Hop Executive Director Mary Lou Aleskie was struck by the importance of global collaboration and co-creation. 🌎 The world is changing rapidly, yet people-powered actions and partnerships can bridge global differences. Scroll for examples of the power of our artistic collaborations! 👉🏼

09/24/2026

FREE 🔥 Thursdays in the Top of the Hop all term long! Five to Seven is the Hop’s new series BY and FOR students! Starting… now!

09/23/2026

WED & THU only! Don’t miss hip hop at the Hop!

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4 E Wheelock Street
Hanover, NH
03755

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+16036462422

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