Dance at this year's Intersections

Hey,

So here's a disclaimer. I'm a dancer, I went to UMD for Dance and have continued to teach, choreograph, and perform since graduating.

And that is the lens through which I wanted to write this blog and highlight these performances, for any other dancers and dance audience members. I do type this with this one challenge: if you tend to see dance, for every dance performance you see at this year's Intersections, see one non-dance performance. That's all. Simple :-)

That being said, here are the dance events you can catch at the Atlas this festival. Links go to FB event pages:

Jane Franklin Dance

This weekend:

• Double Take (Jane Franklin Dance) - 2/24 @ 7pm; 2/25 @ 1:30pm & 5:30pm
• Los Caminos del Flamenco (Furia Flamenca) - 2/26 @ 2pm
• Click SEND (Sidwell Friends School Dance Ensemble) - 2/26 @ 6pm

Next weekend:

BodyMoves
Contemporary
Dance Company

• Access Granted (DCyhper Dance) - 3/2 @ 9:30pm
• Essence of Dance: A Cultural Perspective (BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company) - 3/3 @ 11:30am
• Getting Airborne (Zip Zap Circus & Airborne DC!) - 3/3 @ 5:30pm & 8pm
• Samudra: Churning Oceans (The Spilling Ink Project & Srishti Dances of India) - 3/3 @ 7pm
• Cinema (Dissonance Dance Theatre) - 3/3 @ 9:30pm, 3/4 @ 2:30pm
• Art Connection (SMYAL's Youth Arts Ensemble & Dance Exchange's Teen Exchange) - 3/4 @ 3pm
• Life in Motion: A Trio of Perspectives (alight dance theater, DancEthos & Glade Dance Collective) - 3/4 @ 4:30pm

Final weekend:

Illstyle and Peace

• Future Preludes (Peter DiMuro PDM: Public Displays of Motion) - 3/8 @ 7pm, 3/9 @ 7pm
• Impossible IZZpossible (Illstyle and Peace presented by Dance Place) - 3/9 @ 8:30pm, 3/10 @ 8:30pm
• Giving it All to the Day (Shange Dance Productions) - 3/9 @ 9pm
• EveryBODY Catch the Beat! (Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble) - 3/10 @ 12pm
• SOLE Defined (Just Tap) - 3/11 @ 2pm
• Bodies: A Music and Dance Exploration (Vivre Musical & Full Circle Dance Co.) - 3/11 @ 2:30pm

And that's that!! Again, if you tend to see dance anyway, try to see one non-dance performance for every dance one you see :-)

Now, I need to get ready to head to the Atlas!!

- J Street Jr