Journey around the outside of Hancher to take in wondrous sights created by the artists of Quixotic, featuring dancers from UI Dance Company and the UI Department of Dance. Enjoy special performances and amazing light displays as Hancher Auditorium is transformed and reimagined.
Presented by Ballet Des Moines and Hancher Auditorium
If there is one thing everyone has missed over the last year, it is coming together with friends and family.
And so, in a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Ballet Des Moines and Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa have come together to create Dance Into Spring, a state-crossing collaboration featuring outdoor performances in Des Moines, Iowa City, and Muscatine. These free performances offer the opportunity for attendees to gather together for beautiful performances celebrating the spirit of renewal.
UI Dance Company, the resident repertory and touring company of the Department of Dance, presents a virtual concert of five works by dance faculty. Under the direction of George de la Peña and Alex Bush, featuring a company of thirteen graduate and undergraduate dancers, this season delivers diverse and exciting performances that celebrate the innovation, athleticism, and perseverance of our dance community.
Visit our Virtual Concert Venue in advance of the performance to learn more about the works, the choreographers, and all of the UI Dance Company collaborators.
Join us at virtualdance.studio.uiowa.edu for this free performance. Tickets are not required.
Dancers in Company, the University of Iowa’s touring ensemble, presents an evening of contemporary dance for their home concert. Now in its 36th year, the company’s repertory will reflect current trends in concert dance from leading companies in the field such as Urban Bush Women. Curated by company directors George de la Peña and Alexandra Bush, this evening of dance engages with current social and cultural themes as well as exploring the joys of combining music and dance. UI Dance students will perform as well as conduct workshops and public discussions to facilitate community conversations throughout Iowa and neighboring states. We urge you to catch the only UI home performances from this company of talented and exciting dancers.
“The University of Iowa’s premiere touring ensemble, Dancers in Company, presents their hugely popular home concert. Now in its 35th year, the company presents works exploring this year’s theme of “taking ground.” Curated by company directors Jessica Anthony and Alex Bush, the diverse repertory engages with current and historical social and political movements that bring marginalized voices forward as well as abstract and aesthetic investigations of equity and space. UI Dance students will perform a thrilling concert and use workshops and public discussions to facilitate community conversations throughout Iowa. Don’t miss the only UI home performances from this company of talented and exciting dancers and choreographers.”
This concert will include the premiere of Borrowed Earth, a new work by Alex Bush.
Dance Artist Michele Dunleavy’s ongoing research project, including a video design collaboration with Alex Bush:
“Steel Valley Rhythms (SVR) is an ongoing project that uses sound and movement to explore Western Pennsylvania's deep connections to the iron and steel industries. Inspired by visits to the Carrie Blast Furnaces, SVR combines percussive dance, music, projected images, video, and recorded oral histories allowing audience members to draw connections between past and present, while challenging perceived boundaries between labor and art. This project is supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.”
Alex Bush's MFA thesis project, Spark and Ruin: a Story of Re-beginning, the culminating piece of The Flint Project, will premiere at Space Place Theater on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City, IA.
Fellow graduate student in dance Paula Lamamie de Clairac will also present her work.
Tickets can be purchased in advance here.
The short film version of your body and its bones will be screened at the Movies by Movers Festival in Boone, North Carolina.
Alex Bush Dance performs your body and its bones and Again Please Thank You No at the 2nd Annual Detroit Dance City Festival at the YMCA Boll Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
Tickets: detroitdancecityfestival.com
