ADF Beyond NC

students attended performances by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Urban Bush Women, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. New this year, students had the ability to choose which repertory experience they wanted to enroll in, selecting two of four companies/choreographers: Kyle Marshall, Urban Bush Women, Netta Yerushalmy, and Jesse Zaritt. A dedicated group reflection and discussion at the beginning and end of each day explored the critical lens of the physical imagination and enabled students to form community and lasting professional relationships.

NYC PRESENTATION

ADF co-presented the New York premiere of Sara Juli’s Burnt-Out Wife with Dixon Place in

February 2020.

ADF/BARD COLLEGE PARTNERSHIP

Beginning in fall 2018 and ending in spring 2020, the Bard College Dance Program and the American Dance Festival formed a two-year partnership designed to challenge the way dance is taught in higher education. Uniting critical inquiry and professional practice through strategically designed coursework and campus-wide activities, the program brought ADF faculty to Bard to teach courses and provided a creative residency at Bard for an ADF-selected artist. In fall 2019, ADF faculty member Nia Love taught one composition course and co-taught one course in contemporary technique with Bard faculty Souleymane Badolo. In spring 2020, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes taught two courses: one in intermediate modern technique and another in improvisation, and Ivy Baldwin led a repertory course that was intended to culminate in a performance in the Faculty Dance Concert. Due to COVID-19, Bard moved all courses online, and the performance of Baldwin’s work was postponed for the academic year 20202021. Ni’Ja Whitson was the ADF resident artist, slated to be in residence at Bard in mid-spring 2020.