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)