2022 Season Event Archive
ShaLeigh Dance Works
ShaLeigh Dance Works
enVISION: Sensory Beyond Sight is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that does not solicit the viewer’s sight but rather all their other senses. Specifically conceived with and for individuals who are low-vision and blind, the work proposes...
Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre
Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre
The third in a trilogy following Carne Viva (2016) and Make Believe (2018), Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre continues its investigation of religious iconography to explore themes of love and romance with the ADF-commissioned world premiere of Devotion (2...
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Rennie Harris Puremovement American Street Dance Theater, who wowed ADF audiences in 2019 with their joyous performance of Rennie Harris FUNKEDIFIED, returns to ADF with RENNIE HARRIS LIFTED: A Gospel House Musical, an evening-length gospel House wor...
Made in North Carolina
Made in North Carolina
An evening of new ADF-commissioned dance works by five North Carolina artists celebrating dance being created right here, at home. The artists chosen include ADF veterans Chris Yon and Taryn Griggs presenting a darkly humorous ensemble piece, interdi...
Helen Simoneau Danse and Stephen Petronio & Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Helen Simoneau Danse and Stephen Petronio & Johnnie Cruise Mercer
Delicate Power examines the different ways we yield, share or exert power as individuals and within communities. The work subverts expectations of power by asking: What does power look like without the need for dominance? Stephen Petronio and Johnni...
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
An Untitled Love is MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Kyle Abraham’s newest evening-length work. With music from the catalog of Grammy Award-winning R&B legend D’Angelo, this creative exaltation serves as a thumping mixtape celebrating culture, fa...
Abby Z and the New Utility
Abby Z and the New Utility
Choreographer Abby Zbikowski and crew have created a genre-bending work that brings together a mosaic group of dancers to redefine purpose for themselves as they labor their way through complex, demanding, and often perplexing physicality as a means ...
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Paul Taylor Dance Company
One of modern dance’s most esteemed companies returns to ADF with the classic Taylor works, Cloven Kingdom and Syzygy. The company will also perform choreographer Michelle Manzanale ’s new work Hope is the thing with Feathers (pictured). "One of...
ADF Faculty & Musicians Concert
ADF Faculty & Musicians Concert
Join the stellar staff of musicians and faculty from the ADF School as they share their considerable talent with the entire community.
Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy’s Ragamala Dance Company
Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy's Ragamala Dance Company
Rooted in the expansive South Indian dance form of Bharatanatyam, Ragamala Dance Company manifests a kindred relationship between the ancient and the contemporary. In their latest evening-length performance, Fires of Varanasi: Dance of the Eternal P...
Monica Bill Barnes & Company
Monica Bill Barnes & Company
A 7-year-old falls in love with dance at her first recital. 40 years later, she works every day to stay in the game. At 70 she keeps moving. Co-created by Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri, The Running Show documents the life of a dancer ...
Janis Brenner
Janis Brenner
Inheritance: A Litany is a journey into the myriad ways a daughter “became” her late parents. She inherited her father’s nose, her mother’s singing voice, her father’s sarcasm, mother’s fragile bones… as well as a lifetime of objects, l...
Footprints
Footprints
The Footprints program, which bridges ADF’s performance series and education programs, delivers an outstanding presentation of three ADF-commissioned world premieres, performed with impeccable technique and infectious energy by ADF students. This s...
Vertigo Dance Company
Vertigo Dance Company
Israel’s highly regarded Vertigo Dance Company performs One. One & One, choreographed by Noa Wertheim and set to a powerful score by Avi Belleli. Performed on a dirt-covered stage, the work creates an arresting sensory experience as it explores the...
Micaela Taylor’s The TL Collective
Micaela Taylor's The TL Collective
Israel’s highly regarded Vertigo Dance Company performs One. One & One, choreographed by Noa Wertheim and set to a powerful score by Avi Belleli. Performed on a dirt-covered stage, the work creates an arresting sensory experience as it explores the...
Limón Dance Company
Limón Dance Company
In performances of musicality, athleticism, and drama, the contemporary emerges out of the classics with the Limón Dance Company. With the company’s classic works and collaborations with contemporary choreographers, we see how powerful dance of th...
PHILADANCO! (New Time/Location)
PHILADANCO! (New Time/Location)
The award-winning Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!) is celebrating 52 years of providing exceptional dance performances and training to dancers and audiences throughout the US and around the world. The innovative and energetic company will per...
Luke Hickey (New Time/Location)
Luke Hickey (New Time/Location)
Chapel Hill native Luke Hickey presents the percussive revue A Little Old, A Little New. Directed and choreographed by Hickey, the work accentuates the powerful synergy created when tap dancers and jazz musicians are in conversation while offering ...
