Choreographers Across Texas To Showcase Work at Brazos Contemporary Dance Festival
Choreographers — including students and faculty members in the Dance program — will present their work at Rudder Theatre on Aug. 28 and 29.
Choreographers from across Texas will present their work at the Brazos Contemporary Dance Festival on Aug. 28 and 29 at 7 p.m., hosted by the Dance program in the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts.
Students and faculty in the program will perform and present work alongside visiting choreographers.
Both concerts will be held at Rudder Theatre. Tickets are $11.50 for general admission and $6 for students and seniors, available at the MSC Box Office.
The festival was created in 2007 to bring professional dancers and choreographers to share their artistic works with the community. Carisa Armstrong, organizer and associate professor, said the works are selected each year through a competitive process. This year artists are coming from McAllen, Houston, Austin and Dallas.
“The most exciting thing about this festival is bringing artists to our community who may never have been here and who our community may never see perform otherwise,” she said. “As with everything in life, dance is about community.”
Armstrong said the festival also includes master classes that offer the community a chance to experience professional contemporary and modern dance forms. The classes on Saturday are open to intermediate and advanced dancers 18 years or older. For more information, contact Armstrong via email at carisa-armstrong@tamu.edu.
Featured artists include Austin-based Matthew Sommers; Edinburg-based Daniel Garcia Martinez; Dallas-based Danielle Georgiou; and Round Rock-based Spaces of Fontana. Abby Williams Chin, lecturer, will present her choreographed work “Are we There yet?” Grace Rogers, a graduate student, will present “after. always.”
Additional visiting artists include: Layla McRae, Cole Hinson, Evelyn Joy Hoelscher, Carolina Gracilazo, Heather Samuelson, Rebeca Gamborino; alongside Diane Bedford, undergraduate academic program director.
“Art can be an escape, a thought-provoker, a bringer of beauty — all of these things keep us coming back to performing and visual art,” Armstrong said. “These are the moments that make all the work and day-to-day activities more enjoyable.”
