A site-specific outdoor dance performance where audiences travel through the landscape alongside dancers, exploring the movement of water in our environment and within our bodies.
This is an open-level class offered in collaboration with Cumulus Dance. Different guest instructors expose students to a medley of new perspectives and technique approaches to Modern+Contemporary Dance. Solidly intermediate, with modifications provided for beginner and advanced level students.
PVCC's annual outdoor exhibition of light-centered artworks illuminates the grounds surrounding the V. Earl Dickinson Building as the longest night of the year approaches. The exhibition features glowing art installations, performances and more.
FREE ADMISSION
Featuring the work of student, faculty, and guest choreographers, the Dance Concert will showcase technical, creative, and artistic approaches to movement and composition, while reflecting each choreographer’s personal interests and stories – an evening of engaging, evocative, and eclectic performances.
Featuring the work of student, faculty, and guest choreographers, the Dance Concert will showcase technical, creative, and artistic approaches to movement and composition, while reflecting each choreographer’s personal interests and stories – an evening of engaging, evocative, and eclectic performances.
Featuring the work of student, faculty, and guest choreographers, the Dance Concert will showcase technical, creative, and artistic approaches to movement and composition, while reflecting each choreographer’s personal interests and stories – an evening of engaging, evocative, and eclectic performances.
Somatic spirituality is an approach that values the wisdom of the body as a vital element in spiritual life. Through mindful attention to bodily sensations, gentle guided movement, and creative explorations, we will explore ways to embody center in the midst of turbulence and change. Wear comfortable clothes for movement - no previous experience necessary!
On Saturday, April 20th, dancers and community members across the United States from Seattle to Mississippi, from Maine to Miami, will engage in a nation-wide simultaneous dance event at water sites, rural, urban, remote, and public, to bring attention to the water that sustains us.
National Water Dance is an artist-driven collective of dancers, students, educators, and community members who create simultaneous performances across the country. We invite everyone to come dance with us and engage in actions on climate change that will help bring us back into balance with this precious planet that we all call home.
This event is FREE and open to public. Family-friendly with special activities for kids, live music, special performances and more.
Explore fun and creative movement activities and learn about the National Water Dance Project. All ages welcome. No previous dance experience necessary!
This workshop is free, but space is limited. RSVP to save your spot!
Please join me for my annual FREE Winter Solstice Community Class:
This all-levels class is a gesture of gratitude and a gift for your year ahead. It includes contemplation, gentle movement, and reflection as we travel toward the longest night of the year.
Space is limited so RSVP to save your spot!
Join us for an flash(light)mob / movement choir in collaboration with Cumulus Dance.
Free Admission
PERFORMANCES AT 6:30, 7:30, & 8:30 PM.
PVCC's 17th annual outdoor exhibition of light-centered artworks illuminates the grounds surrounding the V. Earl Dickinson Building as the longest night of the year approaches. The exhibition features the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' Artmobile traveling gallery, glowing art installations, performances and more.
Please remember to bring your own flashlight and feel free to add to the festivities by dressing as an "enlightened being." Visit https://www.cvillelight.org/ for more information including a printable map and guide to the event.
Curated by James Yates and Fenella Belle
Photo credit: Will May
Each semester the Dance Program in UVA Department of Drama presents eclectic, provocative, and engaging choreographic works by students, faculty, and guest artists.
Get tickets here.
Photo credit: Tom Daly
This class integrates principles from experiential anatomy, eco-somatics, and release-based approaches to modern dance techniques. Floor, standing, and traveling exercises build in complexity, challenging dancers to develop quick pick-up skills, efficient transitions, and dynamic approaches to movement. Solidly intermediate, with modifications provided for beginner and advanced level students. Classes take place at BalletSchool, 2409 Ivy Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903.
Suitable for a wide range of backgrounds and abilities, Movement Medicine integrates approaches from dance, yoga, and somatic movement education into simple progressions you can adapt for your body and apply in everyday life. Please wear comfortable clothes for movement and, if you like, bring a yoga mat for floor work.
At Common Ground, our goal is to welcome everyone regardless of their ability to pay. This is only possible when everyone contributes what they can. For this series, the rates that sustain Common Ground and the important work done by staff and instructors are:
Please note: refunds are not available for missed classes. No substitutions. Cancellations for this series must be made 24 hours in advance of the first class, refunds will not be issued after this point.
Please join me for my annual FREE Winter Solstice Community Class:
This all-levels class is a gesture of gratitude and a gift for your year ahead. It includes contemplation, gentle movement, and reflection as we travel toward the longest night of the year. This year’s class will be a hybrid format with limited spaces for in-person engagement. Reserve your in-person spot here. Register to participate online here.
I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Monacan Indian Nation, a Siouan-speaking tribe of the piedmont and mountain regions of Virginia. These lands were occupied by a government that also enslaved Africans and African Americans, and the legacy of this oppression continues to impact Black and Indigenous peoples today. I support the Alliance of Native Seed Keepers, Black Lives Matter, and Showing Up for Racial Justice.
