Festival of Dance 2016

May 5–8, 2016

Stuart Theatre

Produced by Julie Adams Strandberg

Festival of Dance 2016

Brown University Theatre and Sock & Buskin proudly presented the Festival of Dance 2016 on May 5-8. This annual dance concert brought together the best work produced by students, faculty, and professional dancers across the city over the past year. The festival featured performances by Dance Extension, ImPulse Dance Company, Fusion Dance Company, and New Works/World Traditions.

International dance troupe New Works/World Traditions developed a newly devised piece, Masking, which was a meditation on the nature of dreams. New Works/World Traditions also performed Wasalunka. This celebratory West African Mande dance piece, which was performed, was steeped in the hunter societies of the Bambara peoples of Mali.

Student-led Fusion Dance Company performed Evolve, choreographed by Stanley Muñoz ’17. Fusion Dance Company is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic group of men and women who perform a variety of dance styles and do not conform to modern day constraints on body shape, size, dance style, and choreography.

The festival also featured the choreography of Billy Siegenfeld ‘70 and Fulbright Lecturer Priyadarshini Shome.

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