2008 OhioDance Festival: Rescheduled for Saturday, May 31, 2008 See below for Showcase details
Dance Matters: Speaking of Moves
Hosted by The Ohio State University Department of Dance, Sullivant Hall, 1813 N High St., Columbus, OH 43210. Events will take place on the OSU campus, Columbus, Ohio.

The Dance Compassion Project
A dance and music performance benefiting the Ohio AIDS Coalition

Columbus, OH – Artists of BalletMet Columbus will present The Dance Compassion Project 7:30 p.m. May 8 and 9 at the BalletMet Performance Space, 322 Mount Vernon Avenue. All proceeds benefit the Ohio AIDS Coalition.
This second annual event will feature exceptional collaborative performances between Central Ohio dancers and musicians including:
Excerpts from BalletMet’s hit program 30x30;
Special musical selections by the Élan Trio paired with the moving choreography of BalletMet company dancer Jimmy Orrante;
A new work to the music of Giulio Caccini by Adam Hundt – dancers will be joined by the Opera Columbus mezzo-soprano Elise Des Champs;
Performances by special guests Columbus Dance Theatre, Kristina Isabelle Dance Company and bacKspace;
World premiere works by BalletMet Company dancers Justin Gibbs and Dmitri Suslov;
A surprise finale featuring the entire cast of this groundbreaking project.

All proceeds will benefit the Ohio AIDS Coalition’s mission of education, leadership training, advocacy, and support for people living with HIV/AIDS. The OAC also offers healing weekends for people newly diagnosed living with HIV/AIDS.

Tickets for The Dance Compassion Project are $28. For a $53 ticket, patrons can attend the post performance reception on Friday with the artists from the show.
For tickets, call the BalletMet Box Office at (614) 229-4848.
For more information,
call (614) 915-4999,
visit www.myspace.com/dancecompassionproject, or
email Dancecompassion@aol.com

MamLuft&Co. Dance in Concert
dance (AVANT) GARDEn
Friday & Saturday, May 16 & 17, 2008
An evening highlighting alternative dance arts, with guest artists from Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC.
Muscle Memory Dance Theatre (Dallas), Megan Odom & Brandy Niccolai (Dallas), Jennifer Keller (Pittsburgh), and Vince Linz/Bob Donovan (Cincinnati). An evening of progressive dance arts, including a video installation by Cincinnati video artists, Vince Linz and Bob Donovan. In the first annual dance (AVANT) GARDEn, MamLuft&Co. Dance is joined by avant gardeners from Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, growing electric, edgy, palpable, intriguing art.
Friday and Saturday, May 16 & 17, 8pm, at Ballet Tech Cincinnati's new space in Kennedy Heights (6543 Montgomery Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45213)
$15 general admission, $12 students & seniors at the door with ID. Tickets available online at www.mamluftcodance.com or at the door; no telephone purchases, please. Credit cards accepted via advance ticketing at www.mamluftcodance.com. Cash only at the door.

MamLuft&Co. Dance in Concert
DANCE (AVANT)GARDEN MASTERCLASS WITH JENNIFER KELLER
TBA, Tentatively Saturday, May 17, 2008
Masterclass with Jennifer Keller, guest artist. Ms. Keller is a choreographer and performer on faculty at Slipper Rock University; she is a former member of Dance Alloy under Mark Taylor's direction.
Registration Information Online
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The Antioch College Spring Dance Concert will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19 at 8:00 in the Antioch College South Gym. The program will include works by Adam Rose, Nathaniel Love, Beth Goodney, Erin Wolf, Jill Becker, Kelsa Rieger, Valerie Blackwell-Truitt, Colleen Leonardi and Suzan Bradford. General admission is $7, $5 for students and seniors and is free to CG. For information, please contact Jill Becker at 769-1026.
About the Program:
Adam Rose presents “Introduction to a Ballet Grotesque,” a fantasy piece based on an imagined tradition. Beth Goodney’s creation “This Dance is About You”, is about…you. It is a romantic farce and a quirky comedy about life on the edge. Nathaniel Love performs, “Sheepish Butlers’ Surgical Bottle Battles”, a dance/theater improvisation based on the novel Kafka on the Beach by Haruki Murakami. Erin Wolf will present “Light and Dark, Beginning to End”, where she plays with balancing the circle, linking likeness to unlikeness. Valerie Blackwell-Truit will present My Wild Frontier, with music by Faith Hill. This piece is about a relationship between two people, which is tragically cut short and is dedicated to a family member’s loss. Jill Becker and Colleen Leonardi will present an improvisational duet entitled “The Creative Process or What is an Hour?”, an affectionate look at the artistic process. Kelsa Rieger will present a Hip Hop piece that looks at addictions. She will also draw together an ensembe of hot salsa dancers. The evening includes the West African Drum and Dance piece, under the direction of Suzan Bradford and master drummer Carlton Pope.

Thiossane West African Dance Institute
"Yarale Sadome"(raising our children with traditions) bringing what is good from the past to the present to ensure the next generation maintains a sense of self, family and community. Witness as we present and preserve the richness of our traditions through the stages of life, enveloped by the wisdom, knowledge and customs of the African culture.
May 24 & 25, 2008
Vern Riffe Capitol Theater, 77 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio
price: $15 - $25
Thhiossane West African Dance Institute
contact: Suzan Bradford Kounta
P.O Box 6896, Columbus, Oh 43205
phone: 614-252-7077

May 29 and 31 

June 1and June 7

“Meet me at 3.”
MamLuft&Co. Dance and Friends at the Fringe Festival
May 29, May 31, June 1, and June 7 / Contemporary Arts Center
A collaborative evening of experimental video, dance, and live music in conversation with one another, with video artists Vince Linz and Bob Donovan, experimental composer Michael Perdue, and musician Jeff M. Luft.
A rendezvous of space, time, music, dance, architecture, pictures, film, memories, visions of the future, altercations, sound, touch, taste, love, hate, and mysteries…MamLuft&Co. Dance presents a short evening of work as a post-modern venture into a space where time, logic, and consequences are shared by the media of moving bodies, moving pictures, and moving sound. Through the direction of Jeanne S. Mam-Luft, Meet Me At 3, video artist Vince Linz and Bob Donovan, experimental composer Michael Perdue, percussionist/ML&Co. partner Jeff M. Luft, and the ML&Co. company dancers create and perform this living, breathing work. This exciting work is made anew with each performance, created from a structure wherein “improvography” is utilized, and bodies, sounds, and sights take turns at leading and speaking. The result is a rich experiment, a dichotomy of the senses.
FOUR PERFORMANCEs
Thursday, May 29 at 7pm
Saturday, May 31 at 9pm
Sunday, June 1 at 3pm
Saturday, June 7 at 3pm
Cincinnati Fringe Festival runs from May 27 to June 7 and is a Know Theatre Production.
For more information or tickets visit CincyFringe.com or call 513-621-ARTS.

6 & 7

13 & 14

Contemporary Dance Theater presents
The 2008 Choreographers Festival
Program One, Friday & Saturday, June 6 & 7, 7:30 pm
Program Two, Friday & Saturday, June 13 & 14, 7:30 pm
WHERE: Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts
COST: $22-27; $17 students and seniors; $12 ETA/Start
For more information call (513) 591-1222 or visit www.cdt-dance.org.
Contemporary Dance Theater expands its annual Choreographers Without Companies (CWC) concert into a veritable festival of modern dance. A departure from the annual CWC, which traditionally presented one concert of new work by independent Tri-State choreographers (those without companies), the Festival's two distinct concerts feature reprises of older dances alongside new work. Also included are dances by choreographers who have companies as well as those who don't, and work by artists who have danced in Cincinnati but may no longer live in the area. The festival is a fitting celebration of CDT's 35 years nurturing modern dance and modern dancers.

The Festival will present 13 works over two weekends. Included in the program is work by exciting newcomers to Cincinnati, Ka-Ron Brown Lehman and Jeanne S. Mam-Luft, both of whom have made a mark on the Cincinnati dance community in less than a year's time. A sort of CDT reunion, the Festival includes choreographers who once called Cincinnati home but who moved elsewhere. Jan Van Dyke, Shawn Womack, Jacqueline Garcia, Paige Cunningham and Whitney Jacobs are coming back for the concert. Established Cincinnati favorites Fanchon Shur (with Karen Wissel) and Susan Moser have created new work for the concert, while Diane Germaine, Judith Mikita, Jeri Gatch and Tricia Gelmini remake some of their best work from past performances.

MamLuft&Co. Dance in Concert
CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE'S CHOREOGRAPHER'S FESTIVAL
June 13-14
An evening of eclectic dance from around Cincinnati.
Aronoff Center's Jarson Kaplan Theatre
Ticketing Information Available Soon
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