Fasten your seat belts for a new dance experience featuring the very best in dance and movement from DC and around the world. The VelocityDC Dance Festival returns for its third year, following two previous sold-out runs.
The festival is performed in mixed repertory: Program A on October 20 and 21 (evening), Program B on October 22 (matinee and evening) and Program C on October 23 (matinee)

Program A:
Pastora Flamenco
CityDance presents Christopher K. Morgan & Artists
Jane Franklin Dance
The Washington Ballet Studio Company—solos
Hyo Seon Park
Chong Sun
Flamenco Aparicio
Urban Artistry
INTERMISSION
Asanga Domask
Next Reflex Dance Collective
The Washington Ballet Studio Company—Pas de Deux
Coyaba Dance Theater

Program B:
Pastora Flamenco
Ballet ADI
EDGEWORKS Dance Theater
PEARSON WIDRIG DANCE THEATER
Urban Artistry
INTERMISSION
Flamenco Aparicio
The Washington Ballet

Program C:
Flamenco Aparicio
Jane Franklin Dance
Coyaba Dance Theater—small piece
Next Reflex Dance Collective
Urban Artistry
INTERMISSION
Asanga Domask
CityDance presents Christopher K. Morgan & Artists
Coyaba Dance Theater

 

Special Event:

RAMP-To-Velocity Series
6:30-7:30pm Thursday-Saturday
featuring new works, works in progress with a focus on up-and-coming young choreographers  on the ramp to gaining velocity in the region

On Site Events

45 minutes before curtain

Outside the theatre lobby
Daniel Burkholder’s group The Playground performs “Green”

In the upper lobbies of the theatre
Works by Jillian Boelte, Jordan Gehley, Keira Hart and  Sara Hoke


VelocityDC is a special partnership between Dance/MetroDC, Washington Performing Arts Society and the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Designed to showcase and promote the exceptional artistic quality of the D.C. dance community, VelocityDC positions Washington, D.C. as a top arts and dance destination nationwide.
*artists subject to change

Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.