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Richmond Dance Festival - Season Ticket
Richmond Dance Festival strives to cultivate a larger audience for local dance, and aims to be an annual gathering for Richmond dance artists and dance lovers alike.
This spring, contemporary dance blooms in Richmond as never before. For a solid month, Dogtown Dance Theatre hosts performances, film screenings, and master classes featuring over 80 local dance artists.
The festival runs from April 25-May 24 and presents five dance groups, listed in the schedule below. Open master classes and audience pre-performance discussions will amplify and contextualize the work being presented by and for our community.
With funds from the Kickstarter, we hope to pay for festival advertising and marketing, as well as costumes, lighting, technical supplies, event personnel, concessions, and performance fees.
In addition to the dance work itself, the festival will showcase Dogtown Dance Theatre as a lively, collaborative, and innovative nexus for dance in Richmond.
More info on performances, master classes, and dance films to come!
April 25-26 K Dance
K Dance presents SHORTS, a unique production of short plays and dance. This will be a weekend of collaboration between directors Billy Christopher Maupin, Kaye Weinstein Gary, Melissa Rayford, and Molly Hood.
May 2-3 Ground Zero Dance + FDANCE
Ground Zero Dance members Rob Petres, Victoria Fink, and Pam England will present work alongside FDANCE's Artistic Director Rebecca A. Ferrell.
Rob Petres's work will take the form of a video dance based on a solo choreographed during the spring of 2013, performed by dancer Molly Grose.
In Victoria Fink's new work, six dancers represent a unit or family attempting to conceal their individual and collective truths in order to stay together.
Pam England presents a trio building on "Fall," a section of her previous work, "Four Seasons.
Rebecca A. Ferrell confronts the social structures surrounding women in reference to traditional female roles in American society in a solo combining text, dance, and video. Ferrell will also present a duet choreographed on rva dance collective members Jess Burgess and Danica Kalemdaroglu.
May 10 RVA Dance Films
An evening of dance films by local choreographers and filmmakers, including Charli Brissey/Maeko Productions, Robbie Kinter, and others, will be shown at Dogtown Dance Theatre, curated by Rebecca A. Ferrell. Two films in the showing were selected for inclusion in the International Screendance Festival and the Dance on Camera Festival.
May 16-17 Unheard-of Practices 4
This weekend features choreography set to an eclectic blend of music performed live by Rattlemouth and Ruckus Watusi.
Six of the dance works have been choreographed by Rattlemouth drummer, Robbie Kinter, over the past 15 years. Additionally, Robbie has teamed up with his favorite collaborator, Frances Wessells, to create a new work.
Pam England of Ground Zero Dance, will premiere a new piece with music composed by Rattlemouth saxophonist, Danny Finney.
Beau Dobson will present a new work on Henrico High School Center for the Arts dance students to music created and performed by percussion ensemble Ruckus Watusi.
May 23-24 Movement House
Making its company debut, Movement House is a project-based dance collective co-created by VCU Dance seniors Rachel Rinehardt and Johnnie Mercer Jr. They will share a weekend of works that explore human reaction and its relation to the human psyche and heart. This concert will include a duet choreographed and danced by the two choreographers, and their own works will feature fellow VCU Dance students.
Rachel Rinehardt will present a mixture of new and repertory works. She brings her inspirations to life with eccentric movement, intricate design, and celebratory performers.
Presenting two new works, Johnnie Mercer Jr. pulls emotionally and kinesthetically from the southern gay African-American experience. Included in his works are collaborations with VCU Arts students Noelle Choy, Torian Ugworji, and Brandon Butts.
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LocationDogtown Dance Theatre (View)
109 West 15th Street
Richmond, VA 23224
United States
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