Dance | Atlas Performing Arts Center

We have a passion for dance. The Atlas is home for dance companies throughout the region. The Atlas fosters and presents stellar dance by local and national artists. The annual Intersections Festival is an ideal time to see the best of DC dance. The Atlas supports and partners with DC dance makers with its Resident Arts Partners including Joy of Motion Dance Center and Step Afrika!

Intersections 2019

February 21 - March 3, 2019

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The Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival is a performing arts festival that presents work that impacts our society, culture, and world by informing, inspiring, educating, and entertaining. INTERSECTIONS is about presenting excellent art that inspires a connected community, engaged artists and audiences alike, and creates a vibrant neighborhood, city, and world. We are interested in unique perspectives and art that connects us to the many facets of our humanity.

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Free Workshop: Moving Dialogues

Contradiction Dance

February 22, 2019

Moving Dialogues is a methodology designed to support awareness, change, reflection, and refinement processes within individuals, communities and organizations.

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A Cantar y Bailar/Let’s Sing and Dance

Laura Quiroga

February 23, 2019

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Children interact with the performers - singing, playing, dancing, exploring different rhythms, and interact with the use of props, costumes and instruments. Best for ages 1-5.

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NFT Dance & Co.

February 23, 2019

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A collection of contemporary dance works featuring an eclectic mix of ballet, ballroom and modern dance depicting fantastical scenes of romantic, comedic and dreamy characters.

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Gin Dance Company

February 23, 2019

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Come and have a unique cultural experience with GDC Artistic Director, Shu-Chen Cuff’s work ‘We, The Moon, The Sun’ - an Asian culturally influenced work combining Chinese Opera movements and modern dance and ‘200 Feet’ inspired by author Jack Canfield\'s teachings.

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Border

Jane Franklin Dance

February 23, 2019

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Individuals describe career, racial, gender or ethnic barriers. The sound score incorporates first-person interviews with some new to this country, TASSC clients (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition), and Americans marginalized by circumstance.

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Beyond

DEVIATED THEATRE

February 23, 2019

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In DEVIATED THEATRE’s original dance opera ‘Beyond’, Luna the Astronaut discovers that getting lost (on Mars) is part of getting found. Photo: Enoch Chan

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Nomad Pathways: Dance Across Time

Nomad Dancers

February 24, 2019

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Enjoy a potpourri of dances with authentic cultural roots, incorporating modern aesthetics, conveying a message that the best values of traditional cultures can blend in today's world with concepts of freedom, equality, and self-actualization.

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Choreographic Institute Presents Six Premieres and Two Works in Progress at the Dance Loft on 14 (June 8, 2018)

Dance ICONS Choreographic Institute: Through their Lens

Dance ICONS Institute: Therese Gahl, Marie McNair & Truly Bennett

February 24, 2019

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Experience a powerful evening of dance by 3 dynamic, local, and visionary artists; Therese Gahl, Truly Bennett, and Marie McNair.

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in CONCERT / Dances from Sweden and Israel

Company | E

March 1, 2019

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“WHO LET THE DOGS OUT,” by Swedish Choreographer Lidia Wos is a provocative look as social order and disorder. "ALMA" by Israeli choreographer Rachel Erdos is a metaphor for knowledge and desire.

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Instastory

Elements Dance Company

March 2, 2019

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“Instastory” explores how youth discover identity and purpose in a society obsessed with "likes" and "followers". During this full length showcase, students will share personal stories of struggle and triumph which reveal that the most defining "like" is the one they give themselves.

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Proud Outcasts: Journey of the Gypsy Soul

Ancient Rhythms Dance

March 2, 2019

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Ancient Rhythms Dance Company presents a rich offering of gypsy lore, expressed through dance and music that conveys the proud resilience of the Roma people.

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“Flamenco y Más” (Flamenco and More)

Furia Flamenca Dance Company

March 2, 2019

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The show features flamenco dance, music, and song alongside Indian Kathak and Mexican Folkloriko, bringing together three world and percussive dances for an evening of Flamenco y Más (more).

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Fluid

Dissonance Dance Theatre

March 3, 2019

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Fluid is an evening work inspired by physical theater, Afro-modern dance, presented through contemporary ballet. Fluid is performed to the music of Ezio Bosso and is centered around a cast of strangers, examining human emotion through the life trials of trust, lost, betrayal and love.

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Leather, Sand, Metal: An Audible Exploration of Tap Dance

Capitol Tap and District Tap

March 3, 2019

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Utilizing various mediums that play with the ear, tap dance is heard through leather-soled shoes, metal taps, bare feet, body music, and sand dancing in this exploration of the art as percussion.

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Capitol Movement Project: Dance in the Face of….

March 15-16, 2019

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The show will feature a variety of styles from tap, jazz, and hip-hop to modern, contemporary, and musical theater, “Dance in the Face Of" is a powerful commentary on the ever-growing importance to acknowledge and embrace each other in today’s world.

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