Blossom into Spring 2023 with Dance Place! Apply for the Summer Internship Program, celebrate Dance Place’s youth as they perform for friends and family at the Spring Youth Showcase, and head to campus for dynamic and compelling performances from an incredible line up of artists!
Be sure to mark your calendars with these upcoming Dance Place Presentation and Education Programs and keep growing with Dance Place this Spring!
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Dance Place’s Summer Internship Program is back!
May 30th-August 11th
Applications open now!
Dance Place’s Summer Internship Program is resuming this Summer with a 11-week program, May 30th-August 11th, for 18-24 year olds who want to gain experience working in the arts. This internship will enhance participants’ abilities to shape sustainable and creative careers. Interns are selected for specific departments including: presentation, development, arts administration, marketing and education. Internships are available with housing provided. Applications will be available March 1st. For more information, email internships@danceplace.org
March 10 from 6:30-8:30pm
FREE
Location: Dance Place Polinger Foundation Lobby
Please join Dance Place for an open house hosted by our staff! This informal gathering will be a chance to engage with our Education and Presentation Departments about what they are working on at Dance Place. This is a great time to interact with both seasoned and new staff and connect with other DMV dance community members. Light refreshments will be served.
March 18 at 7pm & March 19 at 4pm
Indoor Ticketed Performance
TEMPLE shines the spotlight on the fraying of public life and the growing reality that people participate in institutions less and less. Through the languages of Indian Dance and Hip Hop culture, Chitra Subramanian explores the experiences and stories of her South Asian immigrant journey through the lens of the major institutions that were powerful anchors in her life. From the Hindu Temple in Pittsburgh to the temple of the DC Club, Chitra showcases the limitless ways in which Hip Hop & dance continue to inspire and transform.
TEMPLE is a deeply family-friendly performance, geared to an intergenerational audience. Segments of the work engage the audience through one-on-one conversations with one another and even a cypher on stage, sharing original sets by some of Chitra Subramanian’s favorite DC-based DJs.
chitra.MOVES is honored to present TEMPLE at Dance Place.
ASL Interpretation will be available for the Saturday performance and Large Print Programs will be available for both performances.
This project was supported by the National Performance Network (NPN) Artist Engagement Fund. More information: www.npnweb.org.
Ronya-Lee Anderson: The Light Sessions
April 1 at 7pm & April 2 at 4pm
Indoor Ticketed Performance
Dance Place presents Artist in Residence (AIR) Ronya-Lee Anderson in The Light Sessions. The Light Sessions is an interactive choreosonic journey exploring notions of fear and love. Built around the original music of Ronya-Lee and the Light Factory, the work investigates the meaning of art making; inviting witnesses into the creative process. The Light Sessions weaves together live music, movement, text and research notes to create a vibratory, sensory experience.
Alan M. Kriegsman (AMK) Residency: Yaa Samar! Dance Theater
April 10-16, 2023
The Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency honors Alan M. “Mike” Kriegsman, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism in 1976, the first Pulitzer for writings on dance. While he belonged to the entire world of dance, Mike was a special friend to Dance Place and the artists presented here.
This program was established by Sali Ann Kriegsman and Dance Place in remembrance of “Mike” Kriegsman’s passionate support of artists and their commitment to research and discovery. The five day residency offers focused time for the early development of new work by established choreographers.
April 29 at 7pm & April 30 at 4pm
Indoor Ticketed Performance
Marginalia is two female bodies, intimate, impetuous. A scribbled commentary on the official text of subjectification and objectification, sexualization and desexualization, demonization and domestication. Two women lift, work, sweat, and touch. Claiming the nuanced complexity of female rapport. Things that happen every day. Tiny revolts, unseen, unrecorded. Or a revolt upheld and enlarged by each witness. Marginalia is committed to somatic equality. Valuing the impulses of cells and fluids as highly as the nervous system. Putting the human creature on equal footing with the socialized person. An experiential metaphor. If we would have equity between all elements of society can we start with equally valuing all aspects of the body?
The scrawl of marginalia
Centralize the marginal
The body inherently political
Women’s bodies a political battleground
A body is not a battleground
A body is a person
AIR Informal Showing: haus of bambi/Robert Woofter & Ronya-Lee Anderson
May 13, 2023 at 4pm
Join Dance Place’s 2022-2024 Artists in Residence (AIRs) Ronya-Lee Anderson and Robert Woofter for a series of open and informal showings to get to know their processes and practices as they research and create over the residency tenure.
These showings are not feedback sessions, but rather the opportunity for the presenting artists to reveal ideas and elements driving them and to invite the broader Dance Place community into their work.
Sean Dorsey & Dancers: The Lost Art of Dreaming
May 13 at 7pm & May 14 at 4pm
Indoor Ticketed Performance
The Lost Art of Dreaming invites audiences to reconnect with longing, embrace expansive imagination, connect with joy and pleasure, and move toward loving futures. The work is fusion of full-throttle contemporary dance, intimate storytelling, and exquisite queer partnering – all performed with Sean Dorsey Dance’s signature technical precision and deep humanity.
May 20 & 21, 2023
The Spring Youth Performance Showcase celebrates the work of our youth from Dance Place’s various educational programs. The showcase will include performances from Kids on the Move students, Creative Arts Program participants, and the Dance Place Youth Company.
Dance Africa DC
May 30-June 4, 2023
More information coming soon!
Questions? Email boxofficemanager@danceplace.org.
Thank you to our 2022-2023 Supporters!
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, The Arts Forward Fund, The Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Share Fund, The Shubert Foundation, SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, TRJ Bridges (for providing ASL Interpreting Services and Accessibility Consulting), Congressional Sports for Charity, Coleman Family Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc., The Morgan Fund at Seattle Foundation, Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation, Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, The Mars Foundation
Header photo by Jay Williams, Image Description: The performer leans forward in an arabesque position with one arm extended out and the other pulled in close to the torso, their hand in a fist. Their mouth is open and their eyes are wide.