UPCOMING EVENTS
“Personal Stories in Motion”
Friday April 29th and Saturday, April 30th at 7:30pm
Paradise Valley Community College – Center for the Performing Arts
18401 N 32nd St Phoenix, AZ 85032
(Located in northeast Phoenix, Paradise Valley Community College (PVCC) is one of ten colleges within the Maricopa County Community College District.)
Free admission
Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/317146312157
Join the PVCC Dance Program for an evening of dance featuring the personal stories of students, faculty and guest artists. The dance concert will include ballet, modern dance and Jazz styles.
Desert Dance Theatre will perform as guest artists in Paradise Valley Community College’s Spring Dance Collection, “Personal Stories in Motion” featuring “BOX DANCE,” an excerpt from HT Chen & Dancers’ "South of Gold Mountain" and “Inside the Outer Corners” choreographed by Lisa R. Chow with original music performed live by Step Raptis.
"South of Gold Mountain" is an interpretation based on the images and oral histories of the Chinese that settled in the southern states prior to WWII. Early Chinese settlers refer to the United States as “Gold Mountain,” a term deriving from the Gold Rush era. Lesser known were the Chinese who came to the southern states to work on plantations, widen the Augusta Canal, or build the railroads. The "BOX DANCE" pays tribute to the livelihoods of Chinese grocers who persevered to make a difference in the communities they lived in.
H.T. Chen is a leading choreographer, performer and arts advocate. Through his company, H.T. Chen & Dancers, he has created a body of work that gives poetic voice to Asians in America. H.T. Chen is a graduate of the University of Chinese Culture, The Juilliard School’s Dance Division, and NYU’s Dept of Dance Professions, where he received his MA in Dance Education.
Friday April 29th and Saturday, April 30th at 7:30pm
Paradise Valley Community College – Center for the Performing Arts
18401 N 32nd St Phoenix, AZ 85032
(Located in northeast Phoenix, Paradise Valley Community College (PVCC) is one of ten colleges within the Maricopa County Community College District.)
Free admission
Eventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/317146312157
Join the PVCC Dance Program for an evening of dance featuring the personal stories of students, faculty and guest artists. The dance concert will include ballet, modern dance and Jazz styles.
Desert Dance Theatre will perform as guest artists in Paradise Valley Community College’s Spring Dance Collection, “Personal Stories in Motion” featuring “BOX DANCE,” an excerpt from HT Chen & Dancers’ "South of Gold Mountain" and “Inside the Outer Corners” choreographed by Lisa R. Chow with original music performed live by Step Raptis.
"South of Gold Mountain" is an interpretation based on the images and oral histories of the Chinese that settled in the southern states prior to WWII. Early Chinese settlers refer to the United States as “Gold Mountain,” a term deriving from the Gold Rush era. Lesser known were the Chinese who came to the southern states to work on plantations, widen the Augusta Canal, or build the railroads. The "BOX DANCE" pays tribute to the livelihoods of Chinese grocers who persevered to make a difference in the communities they lived in.
H.T. Chen is a leading choreographer, performer and arts advocate. Through his company, H.T. Chen & Dancers, he has created a body of work that gives poetic voice to Asians in America. H.T. Chen is a graduate of the University of Chinese Culture, The Juilliard School’s Dance Division, and NYU’s Dept of Dance Professions, where he received his MA in Dance Education.
National Water Dance Projects
Join us on April 23 for National Water Dance 2022!
1:00PM Arizona Time / 4:00PM EST
NWD Projects is proud to be the organizing institution for National Water Dance nationwide. National Water Dance is a biennial event comprised of an artist-driven collective of dancers, students, educators, and community members who create simultaneous performances across the United States. The 5th National Water Dance will take place on April 23, 2022 at 4pm EST. The theme and title for this year is “Dancing Out of Time.”
WATCH THE LIVESTREAM: CLICK HERE
The mission of NWD Projects is to promote dance as a vehicle for social change by increasing awareness of environmental and social issues through collaboration with the artistic, educational and scientific communities. NWD Projects makes use of the internet to create a national community, which offers platforms for educating students and supporting artistic exchange among professional artists, while engaging and informing the public.
Desert Dance Theatre acknowledges the twenty-two Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. We are dancing on the ancestral territories of Indigenous people past, present, and future. We thank and honor the Native American tribes and sovereign nations of the Salt River Valley, including the Akimel O’odham, Onk Akimel O'odham and Piipaash nations whose stewardship of the land and waterways allows us to be here now. In addition, we honor their continued and many contributions today.
Why are we dancing in this project?
Desert Dance Theatre would like to bring awareness to our water issues and how climate change is a major problem all over the world. Our dance, “Water is Life!” acknowledges how fortunate we are to have water resources available, whereas other countries around the world are not so fortunate due to climate change and lack of resources. We are dancing in solidarity with others who have similar concerns about the earth, water, environment and climate change.
Desert Dance Theatre's "Water is Life" will premiere at 1:30pm AZ Time/4:30pm EST
WATCH THE PREMIERE OF "WATER IS LIFE" DANCE VIDEO: CLICK HERE
Join us on April 23 for National Water Dance 2022!
1:00PM Arizona Time / 4:00PM EST
NWD Projects is proud to be the organizing institution for National Water Dance nationwide. National Water Dance is a biennial event comprised of an artist-driven collective of dancers, students, educators, and community members who create simultaneous performances across the United States. The 5th National Water Dance will take place on April 23, 2022 at 4pm EST. The theme and title for this year is “Dancing Out of Time.”
WATCH THE LIVESTREAM: CLICK HERE
The mission of NWD Projects is to promote dance as a vehicle for social change by increasing awareness of environmental and social issues through collaboration with the artistic, educational and scientific communities. NWD Projects makes use of the internet to create a national community, which offers platforms for educating students and supporting artistic exchange among professional artists, while engaging and informing the public.
Desert Dance Theatre acknowledges the twenty-two Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. We are dancing on the ancestral territories of Indigenous people past, present, and future. We thank and honor the Native American tribes and sovereign nations of the Salt River Valley, including the Akimel O’odham, Onk Akimel O'odham and Piipaash nations whose stewardship of the land and waterways allows us to be here now. In addition, we honor their continued and many contributions today.
Why are we dancing in this project?
Desert Dance Theatre would like to bring awareness to our water issues and how climate change is a major problem all over the world. Our dance, “Water is Life!” acknowledges how fortunate we are to have water resources available, whereas other countries around the world are not so fortunate due to climate change and lack of resources. We are dancing in solidarity with others who have similar concerns about the earth, water, environment and climate change.
Desert Dance Theatre's "Water is Life" will premiere at 1:30pm AZ Time/4:30pm EST
WATCH THE PREMIERE OF "WATER IS LIFE" DANCE VIDEO: CLICK HERE
PAST EVENTS
We're BACK!!!!
Live In Person Performances! JOIN US at the Arizona Dance Festival 2021 at
Tempe Center for the Arts on October 22-23, 2021 at 6:30pm, starting in the
East Breezeway and proceeding in the Studio Stage.
Live In Person Performances! JOIN US at the Arizona Dance Festival 2021 at
Tempe Center for the Arts on October 22-23, 2021 at 6:30pm, starting in the
East Breezeway and proceeding in the Studio Stage.
Celebrate El Dia de los Muertos: the Day of the Dead!
Let us continue to remember our ancestors and wise ones who have come before us! We carry on old traditions, and bust out in creative newness. We have so many to honor who have taught us well!
Members of Desert Dance Theatre will participate in Cultural Coalition's 10th Annual MIKIZTLI Dia de los Muertos as Los Katrinas and Los Calacotes on Sunday, October 24, 2021 at Steele Indian School Park.
FREE ADMISSION.
Let us continue to remember our ancestors and wise ones who have come before us! We carry on old traditions, and bust out in creative newness. We have so many to honor who have taught us well!
Members of Desert Dance Theatre will participate in Cultural Coalition's 10th Annual MIKIZTLI Dia de los Muertos as Los Katrinas and Los Calacotes on Sunday, October 24, 2021 at Steele Indian School Park.
FREE ADMISSION.
ARCHIVES:
Desert Dance Theatre is proud to have pulled off a SUCCESSFUL AND POWERFUL
Arizona Dance Festival, in Prescott and in Scottsdale!
Professional, slick, full of variety and a wide range of aesthetics, audiences raved about the experience, and students relished the opportunities of working with professionals in the different master classes offered! We are grateful to our sponsors and hosts for each event, including Mary Heller of Yavapai College in Prescott, and Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
Arizona Dance Festival, in Prescott and in Scottsdale!
Professional, slick, full of variety and a wide range of aesthetics, audiences raved about the experience, and students relished the opportunities of working with professionals in the different master classes offered! We are grateful to our sponsors and hosts for each event, including Mary Heller of Yavapai College in Prescott, and Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
ARIZONA DANCE FESTIVAL 2019
Congratulations to Lisa, DDT, Scottsdale Center, Yavapai College, our wonderful audiences, and the amazing dancers and dance companies! It was a fabulous show and what an amazing success!
40th Anniversary SeasonIn our 40th year, we are rethinking, restructuring, reimagining and reflecting on our place in the dance community on this planet. We have restructured our board of directors, renewed our commitment to providing high quality dance classes to the community, and reinvested in our commitment to making dance with a purpose. We’ve reconnected with our best choreographers, and renewed our commitment to our dancers, to provide strong, powerful, dynamic, and FUN concerts that engage with audiences and move our art form forward.
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Tempe, AZ 85285-5332 |
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Thank you to our home at: Dance Theater West
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