Fall Series will take place September 4-6 at the Hardy and Betty Sanders Theatre at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $12-20.
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Catch our first performance of 2015 for a great cause! SLUMP JANUARY 3 7:30PM Dancers Give Back Dallas
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Photo by Stephanie Crousillat
Peugh’s CRITICS OF THE MORNING SONG, which premiered in New York City last October at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, will have its DFW premiere at our WINTER SERIES January 29-31
Photo by Stephanie Crousillat for dccdusa
YOU AND ME | World Premiere | JAN 29-31 dccdusa
We’ve had a great first week with dancer David Cross. He will join us for our WINTER SERIES.
Joshua L. Peugh’s MARSHMALLOW Friday & Saturday 8PM The Dance Gallery Festival, Sam Houston State University
Photo by Sharen Bradford
“Hang around in Dallas for Dark Circles Contemporary Dance Fall series, Sept. 4-6, at Hardy & Betty Sanders Theatre in Fort Worth. Dark Circles premieres artistic director Joshua L. Peugh’s Beautiful Knuckleheads, set to the music of 1980’s pop duo Daryl Hall & John Oates.”
“Guest choreographer Mike Esperanza, of New York City-based BARE Dance, will create a new work, along with a company premiere of Words in Motion by emerging choreographer Chadi El-Khoury, set to an original score composed by Hunter Long.”
http://artsandculturetx.com/top-ten-september-dance-shows-in-texas/
BEAUTIFUL KNUCKLEHEADS tickets are now on sale! http://www.darkcirclescontemporarydance.com/
Fall Series will take place September 4-6 at the Hardy and Betty Sanders Theatre at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $12-20.
GET TICKETS: http://www.darkcirclescontemporarydance.com/
Excited to host NYC-based choreographer Mike Esperanza for the next two weeks as he creates a new work for Dark Circles Contemporary Dance USA!
Our Korean branch opens their new show tonight in Seoul
‘Marshmallow’ by Joshua L. Peugh August 29-30, 2014 8:00pm Dallas DanceFest City Performance Hall, Dallas, Texas
SAVE THE DATE: September 4-6, 2014 8PM | Fall Series at the Hardy & Betty Sanders Theatre | Fort Worth, Texas
We are home from our tour to Germany. It was an honor to represent the United States at 28. Internationaler Wettbewerb für Choreographen Hannover 2014.
Get to know the Dancer // Hailey Harding
Get to know the dancers of DCCD, their inspirations, and where their training began. We would like to introduce Hailey Harding!
How long have you been dancing?
I have been dancing since I was about seven years old.
Why did you start dancing?
I always dressed up in tutus and leotards and pranced around the house. Honestly, I think that’s all my little body wanted to do growing up. My mom placed me in my first dance class at my day care, and the dance instructor told her that she saw something in me and that dancing was something I definitely needed to consider continuing more seriously.
Who or what is your biggest inspiration?
Inspiration through diversity is what I live for. It is what pushes me to wake up, communicate, create, think, learn and give. I am constantly inspired by the dynamic and disparate individuals, things and movements that go beyond the comfortably normal reasons and deliver a sincere and rare piece of art- whether that be a trumpet player or a drag queen. I have always lived to be different and when I see, feel or hear something I never have before, I am inspired.
What is your proudest dance achievement thus far?
I would have to say graduating from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts would be my proudest achievement thus far. It is there where I found the passion and idea to let dance consume me and my life entirely, and I truly believe/know that without that school, I wouldn’t be the artist I am today.
Tell us about your hobbies outside of dance.
Dance is really the only thing I can do/need/want to do with my time, so I don’t really have many other hobbies. But I do enjoy clothes/fashion (thrift), pictures, food, music- lots of music and same nice souls, words and energy to share my time with every once in a while!
Chose one word to describe your dancing.
I have been told my movement quality is very fluid/gum-by/liquified, but if I had to pick one word to describe my dancing it would probably be willing. I enjoy many different styles of dance and I am always curious and open to exposing my body and mind to growing in each form.
What is your favorite dance quote?
“… some say even to walk is a dance.” Lilli-Alice Baxter
Photo by Sergio Garcia for Dark Circles Contemporary Dance
Rehearsing Joshua L. Peugh’s new work ‘Beautiful Knuckleheads’ for our Fall Series at the Sanders
We’re working on a new creation for our 2014/15 Season
Get to know the Dancer // Kelsey Rohr
Get to know the dancers of DCCD, their inspirations, and where their training began. We would like to introduce Kelsey Rohr!
1. How long have you been dancing?
About 17 years.
2. Why did you start dancing?
As a three year old, I started ballet because I needed to be a fairy princess. But around ten years old, Richmond Ballet’s outreach program, Minds in Motion, came and taught a different, pedestrian-based movement style to my fourth grade class, and I fell in love. After the first performance with about 1,000 students dancing together on stage, the experience was enough to know that I had to keep performing and really begin to study dance.
3. Who or what is your biggest dancing inspiration?
There’s a moment when the music turns on and you can feel everyone in the room start to listen and groove. That high when everything comes together—the music, the movement, the energy—is what keeps me inspired.
4. What is your proudest dance achievement so far?
I am proud and so grateful to be where I’m at right now as a company member with Dark Circles and a dance major at SMU (Southern Methodist University).
5. Tell us about your hobbies outside of dance.
I like to travel, eat good food, and hang out with friends.
6. Choose one word to describe your dancing.
One of my mentors once told me that if there’s one thing you cannot be as a dancer, it’s ungenerous. So I try to be as generous as I can.
7. What is your favorite dance quote?
“Yet we are the movers and shakers/Of the world for ever, it seems.” “Ode” by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
SLUMP Sunday, June 1 Fort Worth Community Arts Center 7PM
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Photo by Sergio Garcia
A moment from Joshua L. Peugh’s new creation premiering September 2014
Photo by dancer Hailey Harding