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Bruce Wood Dance Project: Wood/Shop
May 29 | 4pm | Virtual
BWD’s acclaimed WOOD/SHOP series returns for its second year, featuring world premiere works by company dancers: Jaime Borkan, Alex Brown, Jillyn Bryant, Sofia Downing, Weaver Rhodes, Matthew Roberts, Megan Storey, Cole Vernon, Elliott Trahan, and Seth York.
Free!
Zoom link will be published ahead of each event.
Bruce Wood Dance Project: Wood/Shop
April 24 | 4pm | Virtual
BWD’s acclaimed WOOD/SHOP series returns for its second year, featuring world premiere works by company dancers: Jaime Borkan, Alex Brown, Jillyn Bryant, Sofia Downing, Weaver Rhodes, Matthew Roberts, Megan Storey, Cole Vernon, Elliott Trahan, and Seth York.
Free!
Zoom link will be published ahead of each event.
Seeds 2022
April 15-16 | 8pm | Arts Mission Oak Cliff
Seeds is a dance concert, and the culmination of a 10-week crash course program in self-producing, featuring five new dance works by local artists — Brook-Lynne Clark, Larissa Fong, Lyndsay Knecht + Miguel Espinel, Rai Marise, and McKinley Willis.
Come support local dancemakers!
Learn more about the artists involved and the entirety of the program Seeds here.
Tickets: RSVP to save your seat!
Bruce Wood Dance Project: Wood/Shop
March 27 | 4pm | Virtual
BWD’s acclaimed WOOD/SHOP series returns for its second year, featuring world premiere works by company dancers: Jaime Borkan, Alex Brown, Jillyn Bryant, Sofia Downing, Weaver Rhodes, Matthew Roberts, Megan Storey, Cole Vernon, Elliott Trahan, and Seth York.
Free!
Zoom link will be published ahead of each event.
Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Dancing Beyond Borders
March 26 | 7:30pm | Eisemann Center In-Person or Virtual
Opaque is such a graceful work, DBDT: Encore! dancers appear to glide across the stage. Nycole Ray choreographed the mysterious dance. In Nineteenth, another Ray showpiece, the dancers pay tribute to the heroic saga of women who pursued the right to vote and gained equality. Some Moan For Love, by the late Darryl B. Sneed, is a solo that expresses the sentiment of love in hopes of reciprocation.
Tickets: $30-$45
B. Moore Dance: Beyond the Surface
March 24 & 26 | 7pm | Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts - Turner House
Harmonious, powerful, and compelling — exploring our layers. Join us as we revel in the voice if Dana Harper in collaboration with B. MOORE DANCE.
Simply put, Dana is undoubtedly a force of nature. Dana released her first album, Be Alive, before moving to New York City. During her time in New York Dana graced the stages of The Apollo Theater and Madison Square Garden. Dana's career has taken her all around the world and one of her proudest accomplishments to date is being a Top 20 contestant on season 11 of NBC's hit tv show "The Voice,” as a member of Blake Shelton's Team.
Bridget L. Moore, a native of Dallas, TX is the Artistic Director of B. MOORE DANCE. Moore’s choreographic works provide both cultural and kinesthetic experiences rooted in African-American and global dance aesthetics. She has received choreographic commissions from TITAS, Ailey II, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, to name a few. In addition, Moore’s work has been presented at, Jacob’s Pillow, Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre, Winspear Opera House, The Joyce Theater, and Ailey Citigroup Theater, among others.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. with complimentary hors d'oeuvres, sodas and sparkling water. Wine, white or red, available for a Libation Donation of $15.
Tickets: $25-$50
B. Moore Dance: Beyond the Surface
March 24 & 26 | 7pm | Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts - Turner House
Harmonious, powerful, and compelling — exploring our layers. Join us as we revel in the voice if Dana Harper in collaboration with B. MOORE DANCE.
Simply put, Dana is undoubtedly a force of nature. Dana released her first album, Be Alive, before moving to New York City. During her time in New York Dana graced the stages of The Apollo Theater and Madison Square Garden. Dana's career has taken her all around the world and one of her proudest accomplishments to date is being a Top 20 contestant on season 11 of NBC's hit tv show "The Voice,” as a member of Blake Shelton's Team.
Bridget L. Moore, a native of Dallas, TX is the Artistic Director of B. MOORE DANCE. Moore’s choreographic works provide both cultural and kinesthetic experiences rooted in African-American and global dance aesthetics. She has received choreographic commissions from TITAS, Ailey II, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, to name a few. In addition, Moore’s work has been presented at, Jacob’s Pillow, Dee & Charles Wyly Theatre, Winspear Opera House, The Joyce Theater, and Ailey Citigroup Theater, among others.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. with complimentary hors d'oeuvres, sodas and sparkling water. Wine, white or red, available for a Libation Donation of $15.
Tickets: $25-$50
SMU Dance: Spring Dance Concert
March 23-27 | 8pm | Bob Hope Theatre In-Person or Virtual
The Dance Fabric of Dallas is the Meadows Spring Dance Concert, featuring the work of three local dance artists whose individual work represents the core of the of Dallas dance. The concert opens with a work by Joy Bollinger, artistic director for Bruce Wood Dance, titled A Winter’s Day, which uses music from 60s, 70s, 80s to explore the Vietnam War, cyclical nature of time, cultural shifts and searching for change. It will be followed by a piece by Zack Ingram, founder and artistic director of 6 o'Clock Dance Theatre, titled Journey. The concert concludes with new work by Michelle Gibson, choreographer/arts activist in the dance conservatory at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, titled Pan…Them…Ic. This experimental piece deals with the global pandemic and focuses on the use of dance and art to heal. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
The Wednesday and Friday performances will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit https://bit.ly/SMUMeadowsLive.
Tickets: $8-$14
Bruce Wood Dance: WOOD/SHOP
May 23 | 4pm | Zoom | Bruce Wood Dance
Join us May 23 for the final program in our series:
WOOD/SHOP—New Works by Company Dancers. This project showcases our dancers’ choreographic talents! Each program takes place on Zoom and features two or three new dance films. FREE!
Tickets: FREE
Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Spring Celebration
May 22-23 | Virtual On-Demand | Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas Black Dance Theatre is an internationally recognized professional dance company that presents contemporary modern dance from the African American experience.
Guest artist Alicia Graf Mack performs a sentimental solo Don’t Stop from a New York City rooftop. The music was composed by Academy award-winning artist Jon Batiste. Dean and Director of Dance at The Juilliard School, Graf Mack was a former principal dancer at both the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Dance Theatre of Harlem during her esteemed career.
Choreographer Claude Alexander III takes you on an emotional journey through the process of forgiveness and unconditional love in his full company work, A Tender Pardon.
Evidence of Souls Not Seen choreographed by Lloyd Whitmore is a beautiful requiem that expresses mourning of the deaths for those we hold close to our hearts.
Tickets: $24-$30
Eastfield Dance: Shift
May 10 -14 | Streaming Online | Eastfield Dance Department
The Eastfield Dance Department presents SHIFT: A Digital Dance Concert, streaming for free May 10-14.
Link to stream will become available on May 10.
SHIFT features performances by dance technique students, a piece by alumna Alondra Puentes, and the work of faculty members Danielle Georgiou, Kiera Amison, and Robert Alvarez. Guest artists include Melissa Sanderson, YeaJean Choi, Martheya Nygaard, Lori Sundeen Soderbergh, and professional companies the Danielle Georgiou Dance Group and Muscle Memory Dance Theatre.
All dances will be filmed following CDC guidelines.
Streaming May 10-14 | Free
For more information contact Danielle Georgiou at dgeorgiou@dcccd.edu.
Tickets: FREE