Program 3
Sunday, June 28 @ 4pm
Performances by
• Jayde Spiegel, NV
• Smutek Dance, MI
• The Brooklyn Dance Ensemble, NY
• June's Creative Expressions, MI
• BK Dance Project, NY
• Chapman Dance Houston, TX
• moe-tion dance theater, NJ
▪ WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
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Abby Marchesseault Dance Collective
Blueprint of a Point Ascending
Located at the crossroads of America, Abby Marchesseault Dance Collective creates and presents high-quality, innovative dance performances rooted in the Midwestern United States. Their piece, Blueprint of a Point Ascending (excerpt), is inspired by sculptor Kenneth Snelson's concept of "tensegrity," or structural integrity resulting from tension. Using a dynamic set piece and the architecturally inspired music of Caroline Shaw, four dancers of differing backgrounds and movement styles explore shifting tensions in their relationships with one another. Their individualism and senses of direction, even when in opposition, create new possibilities, including for mutual collapse or upward growth and stability. This work was originally commissioned by The Allied Center for Performing Arts (Indianapolis), 2025.
© Gregory R.R. Crosby
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Marez Dance Company
beloved
Brodie Rachelle Masse is a Canadian choreographer whose work has been presented internationally in Costa Rica, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Her artistic approach emphasizes gratitude, humanity, and the mind-body connection, reflected in both her choreography and teaching. For nine years, she has toured as faculty with INTRIGUE Dance Convention and has also taught at Broadway Dance Center. In 2021, she premiered her first full-length production, Made of Pieces. Alongside Miami-born dancer and choreographer Darlyn Perez, Brodie co-created the Boundless Experience program, encouraging young artists to develop authentic movement and individual voices. Perez trained at New World School of the Arts, DanceTown, and Alonzo King LINES Training Program before joining Rambert2 in London in 2018. Together, Marez Dance Company has created acclaimed works for festivals, training programs, and international dance companies, including the upcoming June 2026 EDANCO premiere.
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Classic
Collection
Now on Sale
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Baroque
Deanna Stanton is currently in her thirteenth season with Ballet Arkansas. Deanna graduated with a BFA in Ballet from the University of Cincinnati - CCM. Since joining Ballet Arkansas, she has performed principal roles in works by George Balanchine, Gerald Arpino, Xin Ying, and Madison Hicks. Deanna has created works for Small Plates Choreography Festival, Iowa Choreography Festival, Oklahoma International Dance Festival, Contemporary Dance Choreography Festival, Texture Contemporary Ballet, New Century Dance Project, Rhode Island Women’s Choreography Project, Young Choreographers Festival and eight works for Ballet Arkansas. She has also created two full length ballets.
Innocent Thorns is a contemporary ballet inspired by the rose—a symbol of beauty, fragility, and quiet resilience. The work reflects the human capacity to grow, soften, and bloom amidst unforgiving conditions. Innocent Thorns celebrates resilience without romanticizing pain. It honors the idea that beauty shaped by adversity is not fragile—it is intentional, grounded, and deeply human
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Deanna Stanton Choreography
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The Journey by Mary Oliver
Garet&Co is a nonprofit professional dance company based in CT. Garet&Co's mission is to create a safe, sustainable and uplifting space for dancers to train and perform. Garet&Co’s choreographic work dissects emotions on the stage, dealing with themes of struggling mental health and the search for peace within chaos "You Wrote the Role for Me" depicts the struggle for power between family members, as we grow up and find that the holes in our hearts seem to have always been ripped open by the people we love the most.
This piece explores the anger in discovering that the people and environments who raise us have so much control over who we become. This piece is about the pushback against becoming the person that feels predetermined. Yet it is also my intention through the piece that there is no specific individual at “fault." Instead, we witness a group of people who all share a responsibility for making each other who they’ve become.
Garet&Co
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DANCE COLONY+Artists
The Last One I Made
DANCE COLONY+Artists is a Chicago-based company directed by Seth Robinson and Jeff Wolfe. The company brings together a collective of versatile artists working across contemporary, commercial, and concert dance platforms. Founded on the principles of integrity, quality, and substance, DC+A was created to provide meaningful performance opportunities and create work rooted in intention and artistic depth. The company operates with an agency-like model, connecting dancers with choreographers, creative projects, and professional opportunities while also developing and performing original repertoire. Their work emphasizes physicality, emotional authenticity, and storytelling through movement with meaning. In addition to performances, the company is dedicated to training and mentorship through intensives, workshops, and creative residencies designed to prepare dancers for professional careers. DANCE COLONY+Artists continues to grow as a platform for artists seeking purpose, professionalism, and impactful work within the contemporary dance community
© Hisae Aihara
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Ceylon Dance Company England
KUWENI
Ceylon Dance Company is a London-based contemporary dance organization founded by Sithumini Amarasingha. Originally established in Sri Lanka in 2022 and expanded to England in 2023, the company creates bold, culturally rooted works that blend traditional Sri Lankan dance, ritual movement, and contemporary choreography. Drawing from her Bachelor of Performing Arts from the University of Visual & Performing Arts in Sri Lanka and her MA in Public Arts & Performance from London Metropolitan University, Amarasingha explores themes of female embodiment, cultural memory, identity, and ancestral heritage through movement.
The company’s signature production, Kuweni, reimagines Sri Lanka’s first female ruler through themes of betrayal, resilience, and forgotten histories. Premiering in 2024 at the London Metropolitan University Postgraduate Show, the work continues to evolve internationally. At the 2026 DUMBO Dance Festival, Kuweni will feature performances by Sithumini Amarasingha alongside an ensemble of Sri Lankan artists and collaborators.
© Lynn Lane
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Amos Pinhasi was born in Israel where he performed and choreographed for Tamar Jerusalem Dance Company. In new York he has presented his own work since 1985 and has been produced by DTW, DIA ,Joyce Soho, Dancenow,The 40Up Project and Danspace Project, White Wave, Cool New York, WestFest among others. He has toured his solo work in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Sweden and Israel. He teaches dance improvisation and Yoga internationally.
Amos Pinhasi
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One Foward Two Back
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Columbia Repertory Dance Company
Forgiveness (part 2)
Founded in 2000, Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre has presented 15 original evening length works and dozens of shorter works at NY Performance Seasons and festival engagements, and offers residencies to colleges and universities. The company has presented over 85 productions at venues including New York Live Arts, Mark Morris Dance Center, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, The Kumble Theater, John Jay College and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre creates dynamic dance theatre that activates emotional expression in a rich and abstract collage.
Refuge is an evening-length moving collage that maps our relationship to our surroundings, our community, our space, and ourselves. Refuge highlights how we create safe space in our lives and is inspired by Francisco Clemente's art installation, Encampment.
© Berenice Jaramillo
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Freespace Dance
:One Forwardd Two Back
Freespace Dance, led by Artistic Director Donna Scro Samori, is known for emotionally charged performances with a bold and athletic movement style. Samori, a former principal dancer with the Nikolais/Louis Dance Company and founding member of the Sean Curran Company, has guided the company to perform at notable venues including Jacob’s Pillow, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NJPAC, Joyce SoHo, Peridance, and the DUMBO Dance Festival.
Their featured work, One Forward Two Back, examines the ongoing oppression of women under patriarchal systems despite decades of fighting for equality. The piece reflects on issues surrounding women’s autonomy and reproductive rights, portraying both the strength women find in supporting one another and the continued challenges they face together. Through powerful movement and emotional storytelling, the work highlights resilience, unity, and resistance. Freespace Dance is supported by organizations including the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and New Music USA.
© Hisae Aihara
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