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Texture Contemporary BalletTexture Contemporary Ballet is a dance company located in Pittsburgh, that presents original, and innovative choreography. Our artists fuse their classical ballet foundations with a wide array of other styles of dance and movement textures, which allows us to showcase ballet in a way that is engaging, approachable, relatable and current.
www.textureballet.org |
Attack TheatreFounded in 1994 as a collaboration between two dancers and a city, Attack Theatre fuses modern dance, original live music, and interdisciplinary art forms to create engaging dance performances. We create work at the intersection of art and community, resulting in productions that are personal, authentic, welcoming, and fearless.
Under the artistic direction of Peter Kope and Michele de la Reza, Attack Theatre is celebrating its 25th season. Combining contemporary dance, live music, and multimedia to create “delicious moments of intimacy” (Le Dauphine Vaucluse-Matin, France), the company has produced over 150 original works in theatrical and site specific settings. They have choreographed and performed for symphonies, theater companies, art museums, and for the Broadway production of Squonk. Attack Theatre has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Asia including at the Avignon Festival (France), the 7th Next Wave Dance Festival (Japan), the Indonesian Dance Festival, Monaco Danses Forum and the Spoleto Festival USA. www.attacktheatre.com |
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STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy SosSTAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos (SPdp&SS) exists to interpret and mirror culture and community through dance and dance centered multi-media experiences. With diverse casting and programming, SPdp&SS explores innovative conceptual possibilities while participating in meaningful collaboration. Under the leadership of Choreographer Staycee Pearl and Sound Designer Herman 'Soy Sos' Pearl, SPdp&SS produces programming around compelling concepts and themes often inspired by social/political world issues.
www.pearlartsstudios.com |
DANA Movement EnsembleThe DANA Movement Ensemble ( acronym Dancers Against Normal Actions) is the brainchild of Nick M. Daniels. In 1990, The DANA Movement Ensemble hit the Pittsburgh dance scene with what is now their signature thought provoking, emotion driven, socially relevant, multi-disciplinary movement based performance works. As stated by Jane Vranish in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette “They walk a tightrope between fantasy and reality”. After a 20+ year hiatus, They jumped right back on that tightrope in 2016. From festivals in Boston and Italy to self produced concerts in their hometown, It doesn’t seem like the tightrope walk is ending anytime soon.
www.danamovement.com |
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Bodiography Contemporary Ballet and La Roche University Dance DepartmentOriginally conceived as a performance outlet for exquisite ballet dancers with healthy, athletic, but non-stereotypical ballet bodies, Bodiography Contemporary Ballet strives to bring the beauty of ballet to new dance audiences in Pittsburgh and beyond. Presenting Maria Caruso's multi-genre movement vocabulary and popular contemporary music, Bodiography places special focus on health issues, expressing our shared humanity through intriguing, entertaining, relevant, and inspiring dance with a strong foundation in classical ballet technique.
La Roche University Dance Department is a ballet-based program that prepares students for a creative workforce through extensive technical training, historical knowledge and an enriched artistic awareness. The program allows you to grow as a performer, train with professional choreographers and master various genres. LRU has a unique partnership with BCB, which now includes the newly formed BCB2. www.company.bodiography.com |
Shana Simmons DanceShana Simmons Dance seeks advancement of quality dance performance and increased engagement with audiences and the community through financially accessible interactive and immersive productions. Our work relies heavily on partnerships and outreach to explore topics relevant to our community at large with a heavy focus on the integration of movement in education. The vision and passion of the company is to encourage movement in all bodies, invigorating people with energy and artistry, and encouraging all walks of life to creatively express themselves.
SSD projects aim to draw audiences into modern dance in new and creative ways and highlight current societal topics for project based work. These projects forward communities by creating thoughtful performances and inspiring lives through dance and artistic vision. SSD firmly believes in supporting artistic growth within its company members by encouraged development of their own voices. www.shanasimmonsdance.com |
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GeeksdanzGeeksdanz’s mission is to introduce dance to audiences that would not normally be drawn to it, and to illustrate the universality of dance as a means of emotional expression. Geeksdanz achieves this by systematically applying the context of dance to an enormous variety of topics and interests, and targeting performances towards the specific audiences who share those interests.
www.danz.geeksdanz.org |
CORNINGWORKSCORNINGWORKS is a vehicle for the multi-disciplinary dancetheater productions by Beth Corning that combine sophistication, clarity of theatrical concepts, visceral choreography, and dynamic musicality. Humor co-exists with serious examination of such issues as art and myth, gender and aging. With a seasoned and passionate voice Corning, along with renowned collaborators, explore and expose captured glimpses, and startling slices of the human condition.
www.corningworks.org |
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slowdangeranna thompson and taylor knight, are co-founders of performance entity, slowdanger. slowdanger fuses sound and movement through improvised contemporary and postmodern dance frameworks using found material, electronic instrumentation, vocalization, and ontological examination to engage in collaborative work. Performers manifest as a non-binary entity that is one body amassed of multiple bodies in space. Within this system, they work with an engaged and deepened understanding of energy, synergy, action, gender, time, and storytelling. slowdanger aims to bring disparate points, people and disciplines together to interface and innovate.
slowdanger has been featured at/in Dance Magazine’s ‘ 25 to Watch’, The MoMA, Springboard Danse Montreal, The Andy Warhol Museum, Usine C, Dance Place and more. slowdanger has received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Heinz Endowments, The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council and The Opportunity Fund. In 2019, they were Creatives in Residence at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon and Performers in Residence at the Carnegie Museum of Art. www.slowdangerslowdanger.com |
MURRdanceMURRdance is a project-based contemporary dance company led by Pittsburgh-based dance artist and educator Heidi Murr. Founded in 2017, the company made its performance debut in ASCENDANCE at the New Hazlett Theater. Since, they have performed at Cedar Crest College (Allentown, PA), The Edge Theatre (Chicago), Dogtown Dance Theatre (RVA), Xtaza Nightclub (Pittsburgh), and most recently presented new work in the Columbus Arts Festival.
www.heidimurrdance.com |
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CourdanceCourdance is a Pittsburgh-based dance company dedicated to the creation, presentation, and education of contemporary dance. Courdance creates work that is physically dynamic, emotionally expressive, and socially conscious - while exploring a diverse range of modern styles.
Our mission is to engage our community through dance. We do this by providing performance and choreographic opportunities to emerging dance artists, presenting dance to audiences of all ages through a series of home season performances, site-specific performances, and a seasonal tour, as well as providing dance programming that fosters a creative, courageous spirit. www.courdance.com |
Jamie Erin MurphyJamie Erin Murphy’s mission is to engage audiences by creating performances and contemporary dance work inspired by the human body and it’s connection to issues in the world surrounding us. Murphy strives to cultivate art in Pittsburgh by developing work through intricate exploration of the human experience, driven by passion, athleticism and accessibility to dancers and “non” dancers alike.
www.jamieerinmurphydance.com |
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