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FSS Community Forum
When: Sunday, April 28 3-5pm
Where: The Cavalier
2400 Webberville Rd, Austin TX
We invite you to join us for an informal gathering aimed at fostering connections and collective brainstorming to strengthen the vision for the future of Austin Dance.
CONNEC(TX)IONS
Dance Festival
STAY TUNED FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Connec(TX)ions Dance Festival (CTXDF) is a week-long celebration of professional dance performance and training in Texas. CTXDF offers a 6-day intensive workshop for professional dancers and pre-professional dancers culminating with two nights of performances by Texas-based professional dance companies.
We invite you to join us as we CONNECT, support other artists, and grow together in this immersive dance workshop and performance experience. Dancers will have the opportunity to study and explore ballet, modern, contemporary techniques and movement principles, as well as professional repertoire with a faculty of professional dancers and directors in the connec(TX)ions intensive workshop classes (M-S), as well as the unique performance opportunity (if selected) for our pre-professional dancers to share the stage with professional dancers in classical and contemporary works.
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Dancer: @myakaori_dance
Courtesy of @theaustindanceconservatory
Residencies
Check out Red Nightfall Dance Theatre (one of our resident performing arts companies) with Density512, in their next performance!
MoonFall
When: May 10-18, 7:30pm
Where: Dadalab, 2008 Alexander Ave, Austin, TX 78722
About:
MoonFall is a new immersive and interactive mythic fantasy ballet that explores desire, climate change, community, and our relationship with the cosmos. At times poignant and at others delightful, MoonFall tells a story of the Sun and Moon’s dualistic orbit and the humans whose movements push and pull on their natural world. MoonFall is the brainchild of international dancer, choreographer, and producer Dorothy O’Shea Overbey and award-winning cinematic composer Sam Lipman. This innovative new theatrical experience is presented by two Austin arts organizations - Density512 and Red Nightfall Dance Theatre - with 12 local Austin professional dancers and a live chamber orchestra of 13 Austin musicians.
MoonFall bridges classical and contemporary styles and blurs the barrier between audiences and performers. Guests are invited to step into a fantasy world where they will be surrounded by floor-to-ceiling projections of the MoonFall world designed and painted by interdisciplinary artist Yuliya Lanina! Act 2 will feature three synchronous scenes, each taking place in a separate space. We invite you to choose your own path to experience these spaces, perhaps even following your favorite character from room to room.
This is a show for dance and classical music buffs, theatre-lovers, readers and players of fantasy, and world citizens of all ages! Attend in fantasy attire if you are inspired, and enter the realm of MoonFall half an hour before the show begins to experience optional activities that will influence the ballet. Try becoming a Sun Apprentice, cast a spell with some friends, or prepare for your journey at the Adventurer’s Shop and Tavern! Pre-show activities will influence the performance. At key points in the story, the cast will need the audience’s help to move the story forward.
SPECIAL EVENTS
May 10th
Opening Night, with composer Sam Lipman performing at the VIP experience!
May 11th
Family Night! MoonFall is a show for all ages, but on this night we invite you especially to bring your young adventurers, your Moms, your chosen family!
May 17th
Deaf Night, with ASL interpretation by the amazing team at Stardust ASL!💫
This project has been financed in part by the City of Austin’s Elevate Grant Program.
Check out Ventana Ballet, one of our resident performing arts companies, in their next performance!
KALEIDOSCOPE
A co-presentation by Ventana Ballet & Austin Camerata, featuring Invoke. 5 intimate performances at KMFA's Draylen Mason Music Studio.
KALEIDOSCOPE is an intimate onstage collaboration of music and dance, featuring choreography by AJ Garcia-Rameau, Navaji David Nava, Tikiri Shapiro, & Ty Graynor, and featuring music living composers.
When:
May 23rd
VIP Opening Night & Reception
Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm
Post-Show Q&A & VIP Reception 8:30pm
May 24th & 25th
Two Performances Each Night
6:30pm & 8:30pm (doors at 6pm & 8pm)
About:
Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time.
Complimentary onsite parking available.
Colorfully themed refreshments provided.
Performance lasts approximately 1 hour.
Where:
KMFA Draylen Mason Studio
41 Navasota St., Austin, Texas 78702