Program 1
Friday, June 27 @ 7pm
Performances by:
• Rae Perry, NY
• Fluxus Haus Inc., VA
• Bruce McCormick, CA
• Giovanni Castellon, FL
• Spero Dance, MA
• Lauren Mortimer, PA
• Waeli Wang, CA
• Association Culturelle La Lumiere, Republic of Congo
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echo
Rae Perry is a passionate dance artist and choreographer from Dallas, Texas dance making her New York debut at the DUMBO Dance Festival. Motivated by the healing culture of movement for those who’ve experienced great trauma in their lives, Rae is eagerly looking to pursue a Dance/Movement Therapy career. She first earned her Bachelor’s degree in Dance Studies, with a focus in performance, from Texas Woman's University. Rae has trained in Ballet, Modern, Jazz, West African, Hip Hop, and Musical Theatre dance techniques. Her training in studio dance began at Denton Ballet Academy where she trained under Hugh Nini, Eldar Valiev, Lilia Valieva, and Jennifer Austin.
Rae featured her work “Echo”, with solo artist Holly Griffin, at Margo Jones Theater for TWU’s DanceMakers Concert, (May 2022). The work, inspired by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s “Rosas Danst Rosas”, explores repetition through movement that oscillates between impactful and smooth.
Rae Perry
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Fluxus Haus Inc.
New Republic
Fluxus Dance is dedicated to telling compelling stories about global issues that shape society. Through bold choreography and thought-provoking performances, Fluxus brings contemporary topics to the stage, using dance as a means of communication, reflection, and transformation.
New Republic is a seminal dance performance that invites audiences on a dynamic exploration through America's complicated present, past, and potential future. By highlighting key moments in the nation's history—such as the civil rights era, the Civil War, and current events in 2025—this work deep dives into the ongoing conflicts and challenges the country has faced in the hopes of achieving a greater future. Longline: "Will history remember you kindly or hold you in contempt?"
© Paris Preston
Classic
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Bruce McCormick
Parting
Bruce McCormick (independent artist) earned his BFA from The Juilliard School and his MFA from the University of Washington, where he was also on faculty. He performed in twelve countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet, and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Rehearsal
Director with Ballet BC. McCormick has choreographed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia for the concert stage, opera, site-specific work and film. His approach
© Sarah Madison
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Giovanni Castellon
Resolve
Giovanni Castellon is a Cuban-American from Miami, Florida, where he studied at New World School of the Arts High School and Miami Dance Collective. Giovanni continued his studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts as a Kenan Excellence Scholar, where he received his BFA in Contemporary Dance and a Minor in Arts Entrepreneurship. Outside of schooling, he has had the opportunity to learn and work with Robert Battle, Jacob Jonas, Dante Puleio, Ella Rothschild, and Sam Coren.
During his time at UNCSA, Giovanni discovered his love and passion for choreography, production, and directing. Creating works that are grounded, earthy, human, and extreme. Giovanni is presenting “Resolve”, a work in silence where the dancers create a soundscape with their bodies; the piece is deeply inspired about the horrific events still happening today in Ukraine.
© Brent LaFever
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Spero Dance
Processing (Excerpt)
Camryn Spero and Courtney Spero are emerging choreographers creating as Spero Dance. They are graduates of Vassar College, where they performed in works by Vassar’s dance faculty (Steve Rooks, Leslie Sachs, Lisa Harvie) and guest artists (Shannon Gillen, Jennifer Archibald, etc.), and choreographed eight works as members of the Vassar Repertory Dance Theater. At Vassar, Camryn’s choreography was featured in their annual MODfest arts celebration, which incorporated biotechnology measuring dancers’ reactions in and to different performance spaces. Collectively, they have been invited to showcase their work in the Young Voices in Dance concert at the Battery Dance Festival (2022), the Young Choreographers’ Festival (2023), and the New Voices in Dance concert at New Century Dance Project, receiving the People’s Choice Choreography Award (2024).
An excerpt of Courtney’s “Processing,” which explores the mechanics, malfunctions, and persistence of human and computer memory systems, is being presented at the 2025 Dumbo Dance Festival.
© Luke Ullman
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Lauren Mortimer
Whispers of Existence
Lauren Ashley Mortimer, from Butler, Pennsylvania, is a versatile dancer skilled in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, modern, pointe, heels, hip hop, lyrical, musical theater, and Bharatanatyam. She was featured as the lead dancer in Ashley Marina’s "Clouds Across the Sun" music video (AGT15). Her performance credits include the White Wave SoloDuo Festival, Harlem Globetrotters half-time show, and collaborations with Bodiography Dance Company, Traces by Irishia Romaine, and Rove by Ryan McMullen. Lauren is pursuing her BFA in Dance at Slippery Rock University while training in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Las Vegas.
Whispers of Existence is a reflection on the fleeting nature of life, inviting the audience to pause and cherish each moment, understanding that everything—both the beautiful and the painful—will inevitably pass. Our time is ephemeral, and as the dance weaves through sorrow, joy, and introspection, it reveals the delicate interplay between memory and reality. We ask: Did we ever truly have it? Was it ever really there?
© Ben Viatori
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Waeli Wang
Can We Not Talk to Each Other Anymore?
Founded in 2014, Mending Dance Theater producing forward-looking, cross-domain dance works that link deeply with society, developing an aesthetics full of dramatic tension and poetic quality in the contemporary dance theater.
“Alternative Talk”(黑白話) is pronounced in Taiwanese. It consists of many people’s dialogues and their soliloquies and is experimented in Taiwanese rap. This work fuses the contemporary body languages of modern dance and street dance, presenting one of Taiwan’s features: multiple cultures. In this performance, Mending Dance Theater creates a new story in Taiwanese, turning the feelings of watching the disappearance of memory and culture into dances from the perspective of urban youth. In addition to Mending Dance Theater's expertise in the fusion of the body experiences of modern dance and street dance, the combination of a poetic atmosphere, soundscapes, and Taiwanese dialogues in rap with funk rhythm create a fresh experience of both strangeness and closeness to the audience.
© Emily Seabourne
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Association Culturelle La Lumiere
Bantu Dance
COMPAGNIE ARTISTIQUE LA LUMIÈRE is a socio-cultural association founded in 2013 by Michel Raul Mvingani in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Specializing in singing, theater, folk dance, contemporary dance, and percussion, the company promotes cultural diversity and fosters unity among French-speaking communities.
LA LUMIÈRE has been widely recognized for its artistic excellence, participating in major cultural events:
2024 – Mantsina Festival on Stage (Republic of Congo)
2023 – Pan-African Music Festival (FESPAM, Republic of Congo)
2019 – Consolation Trophy, African Drum Festival (Nigeria)
2018 – First Prize, Best Percussion Group, African Drum Festival (Nigeria)
2017 – Second Prize Trophy, African Drum Festival (Nigeria)
With its dynamic performances, the company continues to celebrate and share African cultural heritage on international stages.
© Jean Philippe
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Lauren Mortimer
Lauren Ashley Mortimer, from Butler, Pennsylvania, is a versatile dancer skilled in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, modern, pointe, heels, hip hop, lyrical, musical theater, and Bharatanatyam. She was featured as the lead dancer in Ashley Marina’s "Clouds Across the Sun" music video (AGT15). Her performance credits include the White Wave SoloDuo Festival, Harlem Globetrotters half-time show, and collaborations with Bodiography Dance Company, Traces by Irishia Romaine, and Rove by Ryan McMullen. Lauren is pursuing her BFA in Dance at Slippery Rock University while training in Pittsburgh, New York City, and Las Vegas.
Whispers of Existence is a reflection on the fleeting nature of life, inviting the audience to pause and cherish each moment, understanding that everything—both the beautiful and the painful—will inevitably pass. Our time is ephemeral, and as the dance weaves through sorrow, joy, and introspection, it reveals the delicate interplay between memory and reality. We ask: Did we ever truly have it? Was it ever really there?