ADF is pleased to host free informal showings of dance pieces in progress at our Scripps Studios. Space is limited, and registration is required (please see the event listings below for the event registration forms).
West Virginia Dance Company
Founded in 1977, WV Dance Company has been serving public venues, schools, colleges, and universities with entertaining and thought-provoking performances and workshops through the language of dance. Recognized for both artistic achievement and excellence in arts education, WVDC has toured throughout West Virginia, as well as 14 other states, reaching tens of thousands of people each year. WV Dance Company’s current concert program for public venues has an evening that has something that people of all ages can enjoy together.
Registration is required! You can register here.
Tony C. Johnson
Tony C. Johnson will be presenting “Longing and Connection”, a 30-minute informal work-in-process exploration of longing for community and a deep connection to past through the language of movement. Each dancer in this work, through a blend of contemporary dance, traditional movements, and symbolic gestures, will reflect on their own yearning for belonging. There are moments of celebration, emotional landscapes of joy, nostalgic rituals, and historical echoes.
Miguel Gutierrez
An in-formal, in-process studio visit with Miguel Gutierrez and performer collaborators in his new work Super Nothing, which will premiere at New York Live Arts in 2025 as the culmination of a two-year Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist residency.
Super Nothing engages performers from New York and Los Angeles—Jay Carlon (LA), Justin Faircloth (NYC), Wendell Gray (NYC), and Evelyn Sanchez (LA). How do the dynamics of an art-making process reflect or deny the dynamics of life outside the studio? When world-building is part of your artistic project, what material makes it into that world? Whose story gets told and whose story gets put aside? bell hooks writes that, “Moving, we confront the realities of choice and location.” Thinking about movement in both the dance and geographic sense of the word, this piece engages with our ideas about place/home, time, history, and the strength and failings of “community.”
ADF Samuel H. Scripps Studios
721 Broad Street
Durham, NC 27705
919-797-2871
jscullythurston@americandancefestival.org
We are located on the second floor, accessible by elevator or stairs. There is ample free parking (including two handicap parking spots) in the lot connected to our building