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).
Jasmine Powell & Anthony Otto Nelson Jr.
As two of six co-curators of The Commons: Southern Futures hosted by Carolina Performing Arts, Anthony Otto Nelson, Jr. and Jasmine Powell have come together to present an excerpt of two new collaborative dance works.
This work invites the audience to step into currents of grief, joy, and memory through a procession of performances. The pieces will investigate our place in history and the spaces we occupy through a series of solos and ensemble work that celebrate diversity, individuality, and the magic that happens when these elements come together in a harmonious dance. There will be a short discussion following the performance.
Registration is required! You can register here.
Big Red Dance Project
The Big Red Dance Project is pleased to invite you to an open showing in advance of our performances at the Durham Arts Council on May 17th, 18th, and 19th. We will be sharing two short pieces from our new work First Kiss in addition to a section from our very first work together to Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor. We are also excited to include a sneak peek at the process of our collaboration with the delightful Durham author and poet, Mimi Herman. Ms. Herman will read a bit from her latest novel The Kudzu Queen and will have books available to sign and sell.
Registration is required! You can register here.
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.
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