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Buffalo Dance Festival

Mainstage Theatre

Saturday, July 31

$22 General Public, $17 Students Configuration Dance Theatre

$60 Workshop & Performance Package - Includes 1 performance ticket, Master Class Workshop (4 classes)

Download the workshop & performance package registration form

For more information contact:
buffalodancefest@gmail.com

The Buffalo Dance Festival returns to UB Center for the Arts on Saturday, July 31 and will feature LehrerDance , Configuration Dance Theatre and The Bill Evans Dance Company. These three highly acclaimed companies will join forces to create a dynamic evening of dance and an afternoon of exciting master classes. Joseph Cipolla and Jon Lehrer, Artistic Directors of Configuration Dance Theatre and LehrerDance, founded the Buffalo Dance Festival and held the inaugural performance in August 2009. This year's Buffalo Dance Festival continues the goal of showcasing the highest quality professional dance in Western New York. 



Configuration Dance Theatre combines classical ballet's formal traditions with modern dance's dynamic expressiveness to create dramatic and emotional performances. The ability to bring studied discipline to contemporary choreography extends from the wealth of professional experience within the troupe. This Buffalo based company’s compelling performances have drawn rave reviews from critics locally and around the country. The New York Times says, “… the dancer’s innate classicism was the first great pleasure of Configuration Dance Theatre”


LehrerDanceLehrerDance is an inspiring and innovative contemporary dance company based in Buffalo, New York. Under the direction of Jon Lehrer, the company showcases Jon's unique choreography and embodies his definitive style.  Jon's extensive background in both the modern and jazz dance idioms fosters choreography that is organic, artistic, accessible and often humorous, reflecting life experience and the human condition. Dance Magazine says, “LehrerDance took the house not so much by storm as by quantum physics.”


The Bill Evans Dance Company was founded in 1975. It was based in Seattle until 1984 and then Albuquerque until 2004. It was re-established in greater Rochester, NY, when Evans became a Visiting Professor and Guest Artist in Dance at The College at Brockport. BEDC has performed in all 50 states (in such venues as the American Dance Festival, the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), throughout Mexico and Canada, and in many countries in Europe, Asia and Australasia. It was among the most-booked companies in the U.S. for several years under the Dance Touring and Artist-in-the-Schools Programs of the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Evans has choreographed and re-staged more than 60 of his contemporary dance, vernacular jazz and rhythm tap works for his company. Bill Evans Dance Company


Email: buffalodancefest@gmail.com

Back to Buffalo 2: The UB Dance All Star Concert

Drama Theatre

Saturday, September 25

8:00pm
$26.50, Students (any school) $13

Noted UB Dance Alumni give a Benefit performance for the Center's Dance Residency Program.

Scheduled to appear: (subject to change)
LehrerDance
Zodiaque Dance Company 

Alumni:
Amanda Benzin
Claire Jacob-Zysman
Jenny Laroche
Matt Pardo
Danielle Sheather
Gina Pero
Rich Ashworth

Tickets on Sale soon!!!

Parsons Dance

Mainstage Theatre

Friday, October 15

David Parsons Dance8:00pm
$26.50, Students (any school) $13

The sexy, athleticism, exuberant personality and joyous movement that is Parsons Dance is comprised of ten full-time dancers and maintains a repertory of over 70 works choreographed by David Parsons. The company’s style is a fusion of the gesture and movement of modern dance, with the discipline and precise execution of a classical company.

Since 1985, Parsons Dance has toured to more than 235 cities, 30 countries, six continents and millions of audience members. They have been featured on PBS, Bravo, A&E, and the Discovery Channel, and even performed live in Times Square as part of the internationally broadcast, 24-hour Millennium New Year’s Eve celebration. The company has performed at the most prestigious theaters, festivals and presenters the world over.

“It does not take long to see why Parsons and his company are one of the hottest tickets in contemporary American dance. First, they are all terrific performers, energized, eager to please and rehearsed within an inch of their lives. Second…Parsons provides choreography that’s consistently intelligent, witty, well-crafted, and humane.”
- Michael Crabb, The Toronto Star




This tour of Parsons Dance Company is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
 

Suzanne Farrell Ballet

Mainstage Theatre

Friday, November 5

Suzanne Farrell8:00pm
$34.50, Students (any school) $16.50

The Balanchine Couple

In just over a decade, The Suzanne Farrell Ballet has evolved from an educational program of the Kennedy Center to a highly lauded ballet company, hailed by the New York Times’ Chief Dance Critic in 2007 as “one of the most courageous projects in ballet today.”

Throughout the nearly three decades of her performing career, Suzanne Farrell was the most influential American ballerina of the late 20th century, as well as the exquisite muse of George Balanchine, one of the undisputed masters of ballet. After retiring from the stage in 1989, she emerged as one of the world’s most inspiring ballet teachers and directors.

In this unique program, Ms. Farrell provides onstage narration, navigating the audience through the evolution of Balanchine's legendary pas de deux style. The program begins with the pas de deux from the early years of Apollo, La Sonnambula, Ivesiana, La Valse, and Agon and continues through to the "Farrell years" of Meditation, Don Quixote, and Diamonds. The program concludes with the grand pas de deux of Stars and Stripes.

In each of these selections, the focus is on the couple, dancing together in pas de deux. From the French, meaning ‘step for two,’ it is designed to show the virtuosity of the ballerina and her partner.

Bellydance Superstars

Mainstage Theatre

Sunday, November 14

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, MARCH 5 AT 10AM

Bellydance Superstars8:00PM

Advance Tickets
Adults $43.50, $33.50
Children (15 & under) $33, $25.50
Seniors (60+) $37.50, $28.50
College students $35, $27
Groups (15 or more) $40.50, $30.50

Day-of Tickets
Adults $49.50, $39.50
Children $37.50, $30
Seniors $42.50, $34
College students $40, $32
Groups $46.50, $36.50

*Prices include $1.50 renovation fee.

With over 700 shows in 22 countries to their credit the Bellydance Superstars are the world’s premier dance troupe elevating the art of Bellydance to mainstream status while incorporating other dance styles including Indian, Ballet, Polynesian and Tribal to create a spectacular show with great variety, amazing costumes and fabulous music. No wonder these 16 Dancers with master percussionist Issam Houshan have been called “the next Riverdance” and “the most important dance troupe in the World”.

Tango Buenos Aires

Mainstage Theatre

Tuesday, February 22

Tango Buenos Aires7:30pm
$26.50, Students $13

Straight from Argentina - a great cultural export!!
Tango at its best.......

Dance Series Subcription on sale 6/25-7/23
Single tickets on sale 7/23

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Taylor 2

Mainstage Theatre

Thursday, March 10

Taylor 27:30pm
$23.50, Students $13

Established in 1993 by Paul Taylor - Contemporary Dance Company

Dance Series Subcription on sale 6/25-7/23
Single tickets on sale 7/23

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Savion Glover

Mainstage Theatre

Thursday, March 24

Savion Glover7:30pm
$47.50 (floor), $37.50 (balcony)
Students $31.50 (floor), $26.50 (balcony)


A world renowned tap dancer and choreographer who made his film debut in 1989's Tap - co-starring with the late Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr.


Dance Series Subcription on sale 6/25-7/23
Single tickets on sale 7/23


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Russian National Ballet Theatre

Mainstage Theatre

Thursday, April 7

7:30pm
$26.50, Students $13
Russian National
"Romeo and Juliet"

A classical timeless love story............


Dance Series Subcription on sale 6/25-7/23
Single Tickets on sale 7/23

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