This year's festival honors three luminaries in dance:
Garth Fagan, the award-winning choreographer best-known for his path-breaking work in "The Lion King" now celebrating his company's 46th season--
Martha Myers, beloved educator and mentor of thousands of dancers over her 40 year tenure as Dean of the American Dance Festival and Professor Emeritus at Connecticut College--
Louis Mofsie, director and founding member of Thunderbird American Indian Dancers who mark the 39th consecutive year of preserving and sharing the culture of indigenous American peoples.
Also featured: historic solo of Bella Lewitzky danced by John Penninton, Margie Gill's solo "Bloom," Alberto Del Saz, Nai-Ni Chen Co, Molissa Fenley, Sabatino Verlezza, Lisa Giobbi, Catherine Meredith,Benvindo Fonseca (France), Bert Gstettner (Austria), Endalyn Taylor, Ara Fitzgerald, Ting-Ting Chang, LiChiao Ping, Mary Seidman, Tina Croll, Maxine Steinman, Gloria McLean, Kathy Wildberger, Nancy Zendora, Sue Bernhard, Kaoru Ikeda, Nicoll & Oreck, Jeanette Stoner, Lynn Needle/Claudia Gitelman, Marlene Skog, Lucas Melfi, Julian Nichols, Lucas Klinge.
Age Guidance: 13
Show Notes: 2 Intermissions.
Performance Schedule:
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SUNDAY @ 7 PM