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Passage
Company: Instinct Dancecorps Choreographer: Angela Rosenkrans Performers: Jay Garcia, Gabbie Gulden, Tasi Harrington, Kiersten Lujan, Lydia Partridge, Trinity Pringle, Juls Tarango, (Understudies: Elva Howard, Baylie MacRae, Madeline McDonald, Alexis "Lexie"...
The Shape of Us
Company: Instinct Dancecorps Choreographer: RaShawn Hart Performers: Gabbie Gulden, Elva Howard, Kiersten Lujan, Baylie MacRae, Madeline McDonald, Alexis "Lexie" Montoya, Lydia Partridge, Juls Tarango (Understudies: Jay Garcia, Trinity Pringle, Tasi Harrington)...
Bloody Mary
Company: CaZo Dance Company Choreographer: Bridgette Borzillo Performers: Ally McSpadden, Dominque Bailey, Giovanni Duran, Keanna Agustin, Laura Belvado, Neftali Mendoza, Kelly Rackow, Joseph Redondo, Mackenzie Miranda, April Haskins, Sophia Balbas, Dilsat Dalkiran,...
Water Is Life
Company: Desert Dance Theater Choreographer: Lisa R. Chow Performers: Lisa R. Chow, Renee Davis, Ignacio Jara, George Johnson, Arielle Lemke, Caroline Liddicoat Music: Step Raptis Some dance exists as pure movement. It can be experienced in isolation, in a crowd,...
Yeah Dil Maange More!
Company: ABCD School of Bollywood Dance Choreographers: Sharmili, Swati Pillai, Vidhylakshmi Murali, Harshita Tatalkar Swathi Harikumar Director / Production Coordinator: Navin Rangarajan Performers: Kshama Chandan, Meenal Gandhi, Ramya Pitty Ramesh Babu, Harshita...
Petricor
Company: Human Nature Dance Theatre Choreographers: Cynthia Ahlers, Gina Darlington, Jayne Lee Performers: Cynthia Ahlers, Gina Darlington, Jayne Lee In Petricor, we are presented with a gathering of archetypes - three women of a certain age, elegant in long black...
Vintage Office Chair
Company: Step's Junk Funk Choreographer: Step Raptis Performer: Step Raptis A Step Raptis performance, included as part of a dance series, is like a puzzle piece that never fits but somehow always belongs. His affinity for found-object percussion finds its way into...
Motherhood – In Anticipation
Company: Archana Alagiri Choreographer: Archana Alagiri Performer: Archana Alagiri The Valley is fortunate to have several accomplished artists and teachers of classic Indian dance. When seen it its full glory, it is a blaze of colorful costumes and an amazing...
Terminus
Choreographer: Nicole L. Olson Performer: Nicole L. Olson In her new solo work, Terminus, Nicole Olson demonstrated once again why so few people are Nicole Olson. This was a site-specific piece, in this case designed to work with a narrow stand of trees which were...
Constrict-ED
Choreographer: Bridgette Borzillo Performers: Laura Belvado, Rebecca Boizelle, Maddi Miloscia, MacKenzie Mirenda The exterior performance space for Rooted In Movement, a residential back yard, has been populated with an eclectic variety of ad hoc structures and...
At Dawn
Choreographer: Candy Jimenez Performer: Claire Renaud This was a fascinating piece that, for me, has generated a whole series of questions for which there are no definitive answers. Candy Jimenez, working with dancer/performer Claire Renaud has constructed something...
Mystyc Journey
Choreographer: Diane McNeal Hunt Performers: Candy Jimenez, Amy Symonds Two cubical platforms occupy the center of the performance area, and though the dancers start on the ground, exploring their environment in long flowing dresses, we understand that these small...
ERA: Tenth Anniversary Celebration
Company: Halo Movement Collective Choreographers: Angel Castro, Katie Young, Jenna Lyn Endicott Performers: Brianna Bishop, Anca Castillo, Angel Castro, Kayla Coxon, Krysta Flores, Tawny Hyster, Jaylene Lechner, Dr. Alexander Patrick, Victoria Roman, Mariah...
Converge
Carnage Company: CONDER/dance Choreographer: Carley Conder, in collaboration with the dancers Performers: Spencer Dennis, Emily Laird, Lauren Jimenez, Faith Markovetz, Amy Symonds I'm not sure what happened here, but this performance really caught me by surprise....
Aura of a Mother
Choreographer: Candy Jimenez Performer: Taylor Dominguez Dance programs dissipate. It is the ephemeral nature of the art that we can never hold them very long, their impressions fading almost immediately, leaving us, if we're lucky, with memories of movement...
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