Category Archives: Dance

Upspring Studio presents In the Witch’s Woods at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 5, Online

Upspring Studio presents In the Witch’s Woods at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Dec 5, Online

On Stage at Joe’s Presents: In the Witch’s Woods featuring UpSpring Studio (VIRTUAL)

Sunday December 5 at 4 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Missed the special preview of a new video production, live filming on November 14th? Not to worry! You can catch the virtual production of In the Witch’s Woods December 5th at 4 pm!

The same weirdos who brought you Nutterween present the heart-chilling tale of a lonely witch who uses magic to make friends. UpSpring Studio presents In the Witch’s Woods, a pandemic production featuring new work on fabrics, sling, and trapeze. Follow along as a lonely witch casts a spell to bring complete strangers to her woods to perform and entertain her. Will it work? Will they stay? Enter the woods with us to find out…

Tickets Pay what you want: $10, $25, $50. Click here.

The World is on Fire and Chiffon at Clarice Smith, Oct 29-31, In person

TDPS Experimental Performance Series at Clarice Smith, Oct 29-31, In person

TDPS Experimental Performance Series
October 29-31, 2021

The World is On Fire, but Here is A Dance choreographed by Maggie Laszewski, M.F.A. Dance ’23
Chiffon written by Ayanna Hill, B.A. Theatre ’22

Fri, Oct 29, 2021 . 07:30PM to 09:30PM
Sat, Oct 30, 2021 . 07:30PM to 09:30PM
Sun, Oct 31, 2021 . 02:00PM to 04:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. In Person.

The World is On Fire, but Here is A Dance choreographed by Maggie Laszewski

This physical theater performance is an episodic exploration that mirrors the “rule of three” in comedy, a practice in repetition that creates an element of surprise. Staged as a low-budget comedy club experience, this work explores how subtle shifts of meaning reverberate and create chaos in a system of repeated words and actions.

Chiffon written by Ayanna Hill

Chiffon is a play about a young girl fighting against the expectations of femininity during the drastic shift in self-image that comes during early adolescence. She fights against the molds that she feels pressured to fit into and struggles with her ability to embrace her femininity and the body she was born into.

Health + Safety: There may be COVID safety policies such as mask requirements in place when you attend this event. Please see our health & safety page for the most up to date information about attendance!

Tickets: Free, tickets required. Click here.

Summertime ft UpSpring at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Aug 21, In Person

Summertime featuring UpSpring at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Aug 21, In Person

On Stage at Joe’s presents: Summertime featuring UpSpring

Saturday Aug 21, 2021, at 7 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Masks are required for this in-person event.

Break out your beach party best and join UpSpring Studio at Joe’s Movement Emporium for Summertime, an outdoor aerial event. This performance features new choreography on trapeze, sling, and more set to favorite summer tunes. August 21st at 7pm. (Rain date August 22nd.)

Feel free to bring your own chair and any snacks you would like. Parking is available up and down the street in front of Joe’s and the residential spaces around the corner.

Tickets $20 General Admission; $10 Seniors, Veterans, Under 16. Click here.

Preview: Far From the Norm at Clarice Smith, Apr 20, Online

Preview: Far From the Norm at Clarice Smith, Apr 20, Online

Artist Talk & 2021-22 Season Preview:
Far From The Norm
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 . 5:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Online

Award winning choreographer and Far From The Norm artistic director Botis Seva discusses the relevance and importance of his Olivier award-winning production BLKDOG. This hip-hop dance theatre work will be presented at The Clarice in the 2021-22 season and delves into cultural coping mechanisms that marginalized young Black British people adopt when responding to social injustice. Guided with intimate insights from the cast and creative team that nurtured BLKDOG from its inception, this preview will also feature excerpts from the work and from the digital series it inspired–Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.

Tickets: Free; No Tickets Required. Click here.

Black Light Summit at Clarice Smith, Mar 4-6, Online

Black Light Summit at Clarice Smith, Mar 4-6, Online

BlackLight Summit
Thursday, March 4, 2021 – Saturday, March 6, 2021
Thu, Mar 4, 2021 . 08:30AM to 09:00PM
Fri, Mar 5, 2021 . 08:30AM to 09:00PM
Sat, Mar 6, 2021 . 08:30AM to 09:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Online

A Black, POC and LGBTQ+ celebratory space and an open invitation for participation, learning and conversation with all.

Come as you are. See us as we are. Imagine and act on what can be.

Our inaugural BlackLight Summit is a year-long dance initiative that investigates how time, people, possibility and hope come together to examine legacy, citizenship and scholarship. The summit asks, through the practice of being socially responsible within the arts: How do we create traditions? How do we transform them into enduring legacies?

To interrogate this unique historical moment, the BlackLight Summit seeks to be a spark that ignites daring innovation and reveals the creativity within the dance ecosystem in America. The peak of the BlackLight Summit is a virtual three-day convening that features roundtable conversations, movement labs and artistic presentations from BlackLight featured artists Micaela Taylor, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Candace Scarborough and Jamal Abrams. Our initiative aims to re-envision how dance can be a conduit to galvanize imagination, resilience and inventiveness.

All events will be able to be experienced virtually and will be free.

For questions or assistance, contact blacklight-summit@umd.edu.

Tickets: Free; Registration Encouraged. Click here.