15th anniversary Michigan-Made performance
Thursday, Feb. 29th, 7:00pm
Epic Center, Kalamazoo, MI: Tickets Required
DDC Dances (Detroit, MI)
CPR/Inhale Movement (Stevensville, MI)
Movement Reservoir (Kalamazoo, MI)
Big Red Wall Dance Company (Detroit, MI)
Happendance Velocity (Okemos, MI)
Dance in the Annex (Grand Rapids, MI)
Breakin’ Ballet (Kalamazoo, MI)
Elements (Lansing, MI)
Tersicore Collective (Ann Arbor, MI)
Contexture Dance (Detroit, MI)
2024 Short Works Professional Performance Series
Friday & Saturday, March 1 & 2: 7:00pm & 9:00pm EST
In-Person at the Epic Center: Tickets Required
Friday Short Works Line-Up
Friday 7:00pm performance:
A premier work by 2024 RADicle Artist, Amanda Ramirez (Chicago, IL)
Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers (Kalamazoo, MI)
slipstream by Corinne Imberski (Chicago)
This Thing That We’re Doing/Sorry About All Of The Music/Sorry About All Of The Words by Anna Bauer/Jairus Carr (Austin, TX)
Kissing the Earth by Kinnari Vora (Chicago, IL)
Friday 9:00pm PERFORMANCE:
*Contains Mature Content Not Suitable For Minors
Blind Spot by Lisa Kusanagi & Osmani Tellez (Tokyo, Japan)
A Long Way Away by Jennifer Meckley (Muncie, IN)
Sentenced to Sentences by Claire Porter (New York, New York)
Loneliness in Numbers by Vitacca Ballet (Houston, TX)
Things that Aren’t There by TINATA DANCE (Germantown, TN)
throughspace by Jo Whitmyer & Chloe Misner (South Bend, IN)
Saturday Short Works Line-Up
Saturday 7:00pm performance:
Long MEmories by Moving Spirits (Brooklyn, NY)
Self Betrayal by Christa Smutek (Novi, MI)
DDCF/RAD FEST Award Winner: The Motion of Seeing by Yukina Sato (Columbus, OH)
Interaction by Kyung Hwa Hong and Kwang Min Kim (Korea)
The Scouts by Braeden Barnes & Michelle Meltzer (Chicago, IL)
Elytra by Melissa Younker (Salt Lake City)
Saturday 9:00pm performance:
Words For Touch by Hannah Seidel (Grand Rapids, MI)
A New Work by Joori Jung (Detroit, MI)
Her Geometry by Carrie Hanson (North Riverside, IL)
I am Alive, I Am Alive, I Am Alive by Dmitri Peskov & Eva Green (Manti, Utah)
Your Applause Please by Elijah Motley (Norfolk, VA)
When Life Gives You Lemons by Sophie Allen (Chicago, IL)
2024 Youth Performance
Sunday, March 3 2024, 3:00pm
The Epic Center: Tickets Required
This performance features works choreographed and/or performed by artists younger than 18 years of age.
dualité by Leif VanHorn (Petoskey, MI)
Isolada by Claire Little (Troy, MI)
A work by Wellspring Youth Performing Ensemble (Kalamazoo, MI)
Shifted Pathways by Michiana Dance Ensemble (South Bend, IN)
A new work by Rootead Youth (Kalamazoo, MI)
In Place of Hope by Embodied Arts Collective (Traverse City, MI)
This is life by Kalamazoo Chinese Academy (KCA) Performing Arts
Unmasked and Finding Mi Chispa by Sierra Schlehuber (Petoskey, MI)
Mystique by Ambo Dance Theater (Louisville, KY)
To by Payton Beckering (Petoskey, MI)
A new work by El Concilio (Kalamazoo, MI)
lasciato solo: left alone by Robin Pettersen (Madison, WI)
La Fleur by Young Dancers Initiative (Kalamazoo, MI)
Glosoli and Choreomania by Great Lakes Dance Academy (Allendale, MI)