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SUMMARY:Family Spooky Disco
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/family-spooky-disco-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251102
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SUMMARY:Dance Place AFTER DARK
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/after-dark-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250714T173354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251017T193113Z
UID:43385-1761955200-1762127999@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Dance Place Family Reunion
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/carla-creative-family-reunion-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251116
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250716T213747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T140420Z
UID:43907-1763078400-1763251199@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:The Creative Space
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/the-creative-space-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251123
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250714T175217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T210711Z
UID:43395-1763683200-1763855999@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Kimberly Bartosik/daela
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/kimberly-bartosik-daela-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251207
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250715T224046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T171634Z
UID:43597-1764892800-1765065599@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Ananya Dance Theatre
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/anaya-dance-theatre-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251215
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20251021T133212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T160539Z
UID:44345-1765497600-1765756799@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Bambi Loves You!
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/bambi-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260119
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CREATED:20250714T180710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T185259Z
UID:43410-1768608000-1768780799@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:KanKouran West African Dance Company
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/kanouran-west-african-dance-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260208
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250714T182008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260130T160642Z
UID:43425-1770336000-1770508799@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:BIGKID DANCE
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/big-kid-dance-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260309
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250715T224825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260223T155123Z
UID:43604-1772755200-1773014399@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:PRIME: A Tribute to Returning Home
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/prime-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260309
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
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SUMMARY:afterGLOW
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/afterglow-2/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260316
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250714T182431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T194331Z
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SUMMARY:Effervescence Collective
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/effervescence-collective-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.danceplace.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Eff.-Collective_-Photo-Credit_-David-Dowling-1.png
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250714T183201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260311T211715Z
UID:43442-1774051200-1774223999@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:VTDance/Vincent E. Thomas
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/vtdance-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.danceplace.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/VTDanceVincent-Thomas_Photo-Credit-Elyse-Hayden.png
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250714T171103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260320T000114Z
UID:43372-1775001600-1777593599@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:DC Dance Festival
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/dc-dance-festival-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260411T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260411T230000
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
CREATED:20250930T013527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260313T015031Z
UID:44297-1775941200-1775948400@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Dance Place AFTER DARK: slowdanger
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/dance-place-after-dark-slowdanger/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260426T220000
DTSTAMP:20260730T070212
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SUMMARY:LIMINAL Dance Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/liminal-dance-film-festival-2/
LOCATION:DC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260510
DTSTAMP:20260730T070213
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SUMMARY:New Releases
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/new-releases-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260601
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260608
DTSTAMP:20260730T070213
CREATED:20250715T183746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260527T175210Z
UID:43542-1780272000-1780876799@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:DanceAfrica DC/Coyaba Village Celebration
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/dance-africa-dc-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260622
DTSTAMP:20260730T070213
CREATED:20250714T191441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260522T163513Z
UID:43466-1781913600-1782086399@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Ronya-Lee Anderson and The Light Factory
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/ronya-lee-anderson-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20260626T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20260628T170000
DTSTAMP:20260730T070213
CREATED:20260406T153424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260716T200529Z
UID:45372-1782460800-1782666000@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:chitra.MOVES
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/chitra-moves-3/
LOCATION:DC
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260710
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260712
DTSTAMP:20260730T070213
CREATED:20260511T171244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260605T170400Z
UID:45634-1783641600-1783814399@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Ceremonials
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/ceremonials/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260814
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260816
DTSTAMP:20260730T070213
CREATED:20250714T191902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260715T185942Z
UID:43473-1786665600-1786838399@www.danceplace.org
SUMMARY:Energizers Creative Arts Summer Camp
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/energizers-summer-camp-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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SUMMARY:Energizers Sneaker Ball
DESCRIPTION:DC Dance Festival graphic comprised of seven rectangular images. On top of the images is the white Dance Place logo which shows the outline of DC with two lines running diagonally from the top and bottom.  						\n				\n				\n				\n							Sept 9 & 10 at 4pm						\n				\n				\n				\n							Dance Place kicks off our 44th season with year three of the DC (District Choreographers) Dance Festival! This ticketed event is a two day festival in celebration of DC’s rich dance community\, featuring choreographers and dancers specifically based in the DMV area.  Featuring dynamic and virtuosic performances by Malik Burnett\, Gerson Lanza\, ReVision Dance Company\, Claire Alrich\, Orange Grove Dance\, Kyoko Fujimoto\, and Daché Green. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 						\n				\n				\n				\n							\n					\n						\n									PURCHASE TICKETS\n					\n					\n				\n						\n				\n				\n				\n							Choose Your Own Adventure for the DC Dance Festival!  Site Specific + Roaming: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, and other outdoor spaces near Dance Place. This engagement starts at EAC at 4:00pm and includes performances by Kyoko Fujimoto\, Daché Green\, Orange Grove Dance\, Claire Alrich\, and ReVision Dance Company.  Theater Performance: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the Dance Place main building around 6:30/7pm and includes performances by Malik Burnett and Gerson Lanza. Performance Bundle: By purchasing this experience\, you will see performances in the Edgewood Arts Center (EAC)\, the Brookland Arts Lofts (BAL)\, the Arts Park\, other outdoor spaces near Dance Place\, and the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Theater. This engagement starts at the EAC at 4:00pm. 						\n				\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			About the Artists		\n				\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Claire Alrich Claire Alrich is a multidisciplinary artist using textile and live performance to elevate the mundane and make the magical tangible. Her work moves across mediums to include:  installation\, dance production\, wearable textile\, performance\, 2-D art\, and soft-sculpture. Based in DC since 2014\, career highlights include: co-founding the performance collective Area Woman\, organizing and curating The Shed Gallery\, performing as a company member with darlingdance\, and regularly making costumes for Heart Stück Bernie and Extreme Lengths Productions. Additionally\, Claire is a Fieldwork facilitator and is a recipient of multiple D.C. Commision for the Arts Individual Artist grants. About the work: This new work created specifically for the Dance Place Arts Park will continue my line of research on the materiality of the body and the corporeality of fabric — how human form\, textile\, and environment can collaborate. The choreography will be driven by the design elements; layering my background in dance with my work in costume design and visual art to equally emphasize the role of movement\, costume\, and set.  Collaboration is fundamental in all aspects of what I do: collaboration with materials\, space\, other artists\, and audiences; a constant conversation between 2-D fabric\, 3-D bodies\, and 4-D space and time. With this project I am excited to collaborate with the Dance Place team\, the Arts Park environment\, musician Santiago Quintana\, and dancers Jessica Denson\, Emilia Kawashima\, and Patricia Mullaney-Loss. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Kyoko Fujimoto Kyoko Fujimoto\, PhD is a choreographer based in Washington DC. She began her dance training in Japan and performed in ballet and musical theater productions in Boston and New York City. Kyoko then moved to Hawaii and began choreographing there. She completed a post-graduate program at the ICONS choreographic Institute in Washington DC.  Her comedy contemporary ballet Flavorland was reviewed by Critical Dance as “Fujimoto expertly captures the joyful experience of devouring a chocolate truffle” and “it was very warmly received by the audience\, with plenty of genuine laughter” (2018). The whimsical humor of “putting a smile on” became the audience’s favorite (2022). https://www.kyokofujimoto.com. About the work: Beautiful music is always here to inspire choreographers and dancers; however\, we don’t often see “musician-centered” dance shows. In this piece\, musicians and dancers will collaborate to express the musician’s aspirations and inspirations in their daily lives.  Two dancers will express the music with contemporary movements along with the live music that a trumpet player and a piano player will play on the same stage. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Gerson Lanza Originally from La Ceiba\, Honduras\, Gerson first encountered the art form of tap dance after moving to New York City in 2001. He immediately fell in love with the art form after his first exposure. He began his tap dance training at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Visual and Performing Arts and Harlem School of the Arts in the heart of New York’s Harlem neighborhood.  After nearly two decades of a fruitful career as an educator\, performer\, and choreographer\, Gerson continues to find new ground to explore. He has been chosen as one of six Strathmore Artists in Residence and company members of the tap troupe Music From The Sole featured in Jacob’s Pillow 2022 Summer Festival and the Guggenheim Work and Progress Series\, and Fall For Dance at New York City Center. Lastly\, Gerson has headlined the Millenium Stage at The Kennedy Center with his jazz quartet and choreographed and performed at Artist at the Center at the New York City Center where his work has been recognized and reviewed by New York Times. 						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							ReVision Dance Company ReVision is a contemporary modern dance company committed to artistic excellence and community building. Through performances\, workshops and teaching residencies\, ReVision works with diverse populations of professional dancers and novice movers. A unique aspect of our work is our dedication to engaging people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ReVision is a Resident Company of Dance Place in Washington\, DC\, teaching and performing both locally throughout the Greater Metropolitan area and internationally. About the work: ReVision’s new site specific work created specifically for Dance Place’s DC Dance Festival\, engages with audience members from new heights and distances. Playing with space\, this new creation is fast paced\, exploratory\, and playful. 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Orange Grove Dance Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a dance\, design\, and film company that exists at the intersection of dance and immersive\, performer-operated design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, OGD is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography\, which engages audiences within time elusive performance landscapes where mythopoetic tropes and reality collide. Over the past decade\, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages\, museums\, film festivals\, underground tunnels\, city streets\, black box theaters\, public parks\, botanic gardens\, and high-end hotels. Major commissions and awards include The Helen Hayes Award\, The Ruby Award\, IN Series Opera\, Flying V\, RaumaArs AIR\, National Sawdust\, The Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts\, U.S. Botanic Garden\, The Kennedy Center\, Dance Place\, Museum of Zhang Zhidong\, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park\, CulturalDC\, Dupont Underground\, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. About the work: Orange Grove Dance\, under the direction of Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves\, transforms the offices of Dance Place with its trademark virtuosic athleticism and evocative site-specific choreography. This presentation awakens the visceral desires of our nature-derived humanity against the encapsulated architecture of the modern office space.  						\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Malik Burnett Malik Burnett\, a Washington\, DC native\, is an arts manager\, dancer\, and currently the Assistant Manager of Dance Programming at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Burnett previously served as a Dance Coordinator for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission—in which he developed a dance program for youth ages two through twelve. His dance career has spanned from performing in the Merce Cunningham Trust’s MinEvent as a part of the Cunningham Centennial Celebration\, in addition to being a member of Maurya Kerr’s tinypistol. He has worked with and performed works by Tariq O’Meally\, Britta Joy Peterson\, Juel D. Lane\, Twyla Tharp\, Shen Wei\, Helen Pickett\, Robyn Mineko Williams\, just to name a few. He has studied at The Washington School of Ballet\, The Ailey School\, Alonzo King Lines Ballet\, and Sidra Bell Module. Burnett holds a BFA in Dance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and an MA in Arts Management from American University. About the work: Jeremiah 29:11 I welcome you to bear witness to my quest in rediscovery of self. This experience will not only be a love letter to my heart but will also be a manifestation of my ancestor’s dreams… Within this quest\, I offer you to reflect… What is in your heart? 						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n				\n			\n						\n				\n							Daché Green graduated from Coker University in June 2014 with a Bachelor’s of Arts\, Performance & Choreography emphasis. He received formal training in Dance and Stage Combat from Lees-McRae College and has trained with notable choreographers throughout the country. He has been performing with 4thrightdance repertory\, a contemporary dance company based in North Carolina since 2011. He began an internship with Dance Place in August 2014 working immediately with the youth in the Creative Education Center for about 2 years. He then went on to teach full time for both in-reach and outreach programs for Dance Place and all through the surrounding communities. Daché is the Artistic Director of the Dance Place Youth Performance Company and teaches the adult heels class on Friday evenings at Dance Place. He serves as the Teen Leadership Program Coordinator at Dance Place and seeks to build the community in great\, new\, innovative ways. He enjoys eclectic\, beautiful and challenging art that caters to self fulfillment and development.  About the work: “Evolutionary” focuses on the many years of hurt\, pain\, joy\, and love that has transpired since my last performance. I remember literally looking in the mirror and wanting to scream out literally “just dance!” This work showcases different avenues of my life\, my feminine side\, my roots\, my first love (dance) and all of my feelings. I want the audience to experience my vulnerable side\, connect with me\, experience me as if I were in a room all alone… my room. I want my integrity to show in the brightest way possible. Giving the audience all of me artistically and emotionally is my mission.  						\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n				\n					\n			\n		\n				\n				\n				\n				\n							This presentation is generously supported by: 						\n				\n				\n				\n																										\n				\n					\n		\n					\n		\n				\n						\n					\n			\n						\n				\n																										\n				\n				\n				\n							Update: This presentation will not have ASL interpretation
URL:https://www.danceplace.org/performances/energizers-sneaker-ball-45/
LOCATION:Dance Place\, 3225 8th Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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