Faculty-Led
- Gamelan Galak Tika
- Chamber Chorus
- Chamber Music Society
- Concert Choir
- Dance Theater Ensemble
- Dramashop
- Festival Jazz Ensemble
- Rambax – Senegalese drumming
- Symphony Orchestra
- Wind Ensemble
All Groups
Architecture
American Institute of Architecture Students Chapter–dedicated to helping architecture students
Dance
Asian Dance Team, MIT–from traditional to contemporary
Ballroom Dance Club, MIT—social ballroom dancing
Ballroom Dance Team, MIT—competitive ballroom dancing
Bhangra Club, MIT—shares folk dances of Punjab
Casino Rueda Group, MIT—instructs and performs Salsa dance
MIT Chamak, MIT’s Indian fusion dance team
Dance Mix Coalition, MIT—student DJs at MIT mix
Dance Theater Ensemble, MIT—co-curricular dance ensemble.
Dance Troupe, MIT—variety of styles of dance
Folk Dance Club, MIT—International, and Contra dances
Imobilare—MCing, DJing, Bboying, Graf, Stylzes
Lindy Hop Society Club, MIT—devoted to “swing dancing”
Lion Dance Group—the art of Chinese Lion Dancing
Mocha Moves Dance Squad—hip hop
Movements in Time—professional choreography and classes
Natya, MIT’s Indian Classical Dance Club—dance form of Bharataha Naatyam
Ridonkulous Dance —
performing at events
Salsa Club, MIT
Tango Club, MIT–Argentine Tango dancing
Tech Squares—square and round dance club
Film
Anime Club, MIT—making Japanese animation, Anime, available to the MIT community
International Film Club—international movies
Lecture Series Committee—student run lectures and movies
Literary Arts
MIT Literary Society: Undergraduate reading group
MIT Science Fiction Society: Home of the biggest open-shelf SF library in the US
MIT Writers Group—open to all members of the MIT community who want to share their creative writing with others. Meets every Friday from 12noon-1pm in 14N-417. (Starting September 2004, the group will meet in Rm 32-080 in the Stata Center.) Contact: Steven Strang, smstrang@mit.edu
Writers’ Series
Authors@MIT Series—author lectures
Poetry@MIT Series—readings by local and national poets
The Writers’ Series at MIT—readings by contemporary writers and thinkers
Student Publications
Angles—on-line
magazine by MIT students
Rune— journal of arts and letters
Scope— work by students in Graduate Program in Science Writing
Tech, The—MIT’s oldest and largest newspaper
Technique—MIT’s annual yearbook
Voo Doo Magazine—humorous publication
Media Arts
Society of Creatives (SOCS)–creative practices
between Art and Science.
Music
Asymptones—An a cappella group with a focus on nerdy music.
Capriccio (formerly Pïraña): Student-run
flamenco/Latin band. (student-run)
Chamber Chorus, The MIT—all-student group for solo and chamber singing. (curricular)
Chamber Music Society, The—all-student chamber music performance. (curricular)
Chamber Orchestra, The—MIT/Wellesleychamber music group. (curricular)
Chantey and Maritime Sing, sing sea music and chanteys
Chinese Choral Society—Chinese choral music and culture.
Chorallaries of MIT, The—secular co-ed a cappella singing group.
Concert Band, The MIT—performs and commissions original works for winds.
Concert Choir, The MIT—all-student choral group. (curricular)
Cross Products, The—Christian co-ed a cappella vocal group.
Dance Mix Coalition, MIT—student DJs
Festival Jazz Ensemble, The—all-student jazz performance group. (curricular)
Gamelan Galak Tika—traditional and modern Balinese music and dance. (curricular)
Gospel Choir, MIT—spreads the gospel through song.
Guild of Bellringers, MIT—change ringing on hand and tower bells.
KlezMITron—MIT Hillel’s klezmer ensemble.
Logarhythms, MIT—all-male a cappella.
Marching Band, MIT—student marching band.
Mariachi Internacional del Tecnologico— traditional Mexican
folk music
Meridian Singers— mixed
classical and madrigal a cappella
MITHAS—MIT Heritage of the Arts of South Asia
Muses, The MIT—all-female a capella.
Oori—traditional Korean musical group.
Pïraña: See Capriccio above.
Rambax
MIT—sabar drumming and dance traditions of Senegal. (curricular)
Resonance of MIT—coed, secular, all MIT a cappella group.
Songwriting Club—gain experience in songwriting
Supa Dupa — Gypsy pirate rock band
Swara, MIT — South Asian classical music group.
Symphony Orchestra, MIT—all-student symphonorchestra (curricular)
Syncopasian — A cappella Asian music and culture
Tech Jazz Singers, The—vocal jazz ensemble.
Techiya—Jewish, Hebrew, and Israeli co-ed a cappella. (student-run)
Toons, The MIT/Wellesley—coed a cappella singing group.
Wind Ensemble, The MIT—student wind ensemble (curricular)
Women’s Chorale—concert choir, open to women of the MIT and Harvard communities
Theater
Black Theatre Guild—performs culturally specific plays
Community Players, MIT—community theater group
Dramashop, MIT—co-curricular theater group
E33 Productions — Technical and stagecraft services
Gilbert & Sullivan Players, MIT—community theater focused on the works of Gilbert & Sullivan
Musical Theatre Guild, MIT—student-run group devoted to producing musicals
MIT Stand-Up Comedy Club–email standup@mit.edu
Next Act—presents a full-length musical during Campus Preview Weekend
Plush Daddy Fly—student-run original sketch comedy troupe
Roadkill Buffet—student-run improv comedy troupe
Shakespeare Ensemble—student-run theater ensemble focusing on the Bard
Visual Arts
Anime Club—making Japanese animation
Glass Lab—glass blowing and glass art
Hobby Shop—instruction, advice, and classes in woodworking and metalworking
Origami Club—paper folding club
Student Art Association (SAA) —classes and studio experience in photography, drawing, painting, pottery, and other media
General Arts
Artists Beyond the Desk—showcases the creative talent of staff at MIT in the visual, literary and performing arts
