Press Release

Durham, NC, May 10, 2024 — The American Dance Festival (ADF) is dedicating its 2024 season to Annie Dwyer and Gene...

Durham, NC, March 20, 2024 — The American Dance Festival (ADF) is thrilled to announce its 2024 season with a full...

Durham, NC, March 11, 2024 – Renowned educator, performer, and choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones will receive the...

The American Dance Festival (ADF) will present the 2024 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement to Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, dancer, choreographer, and founder and former longtime artistic director of Urban Bush Women.

The American Dance Festival (ADF) is excited to announce the artists for its 2024 Made in NC program. Dom-Sebastian...

The American Dance Festival (ADF) is dedicating their 90th anniversary season to Gerri Houlihan, educator, choreographer, and performer. ADF will celebrate Houlihan’s 40th anniversary of teaching at the festival’s annual season in Durham. She has also taught as part of over 15 ADF cultural linkages worldwide. In 2005, ADF awarded her the Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She served as Co-Dean from 2011 to 2013 and then as Dean of the ADF School in 2014 and 2015 and has been Director of ADF’s professional educator workshop for more than ten years. Houlihan made Durham, NC, her home in 2015 and began offering her widely popular adult Joy of Movement modern dance classes at the ADF Samuel H. Scripps Studios soon after. Since 2018, she has overseen ADF’s International Choreographers Residency Program.

ADF celebrates its 90th anniversary season as home of an art form, modern...

Durham, NC – February 6, 2023 – The American Dance Festival (ADF) will present the 2023 Samuel H. Scripps/American...

Oct. 5, 2022 (DURHAM, NC) — The American Dance Festival (ADF) has named Nile H. Russell to the new role of Director of...

Photograph by MK Asante Durham, NC, April 20, 2022— The American Dance Festival (ADF) will posthumously award the...