PERFORMANCES

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We can’t wait for you and your loved ones to see these fabulous productions.

Life is full of echoes. Whether they come from sounds in nature, or from a symphony, or from memories from past experiences or future hopes, the resonance of echoes are with us all. Please join Decatur City Dance as we explore this concept in our winter contemporary presentation of “Resonate Echoes”. Members of AboutFace, Nexus Contemporary, Nexus Premiere, and Nexus Apprentice will perform works by resident choreographers Toya Willingham, Meg Gourley, and Caleigh Santa Maria, as well as works by guest choreographers Sarah Stokes, Emma Morris, and Patsy Collins, and a guest appearance by Kit Modus, directed by Jillian Mitchell. The performance will take place at the Drew Center for the Arts Theater on Saturday, February 8 at 7pm and Sunday, February 9 at 2pm. Tickets go on sale Monday, January 13 and are $20 for adults and $10 for students, 18 years and under. Please visit decaturcitydance.org for more information and to purchase tickets.

• Drew Charter Theater for the Performing Arts

• Tickets on sale Monday, January 13, 2025 - $20 Adult, $10 Students (18 and under)

Tap dance and jazz swing music is like chocolate and strawberries. They taste good separately, but they are delicious together! Though tap dance, an indigenous American dance genre, developed over a period of three hundred years, jazz tap dance did not start to appear until the early decades of the twentieth century. Constance Valis Hill states in her book Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History, “It was around that time that jazz tap dance developed as a musical form parallel to jazz music, sharing rhythmic motifs, polyrhythm, multiple meters, elements of swing, and structured improvisation.” Big Bands like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong, to name a few, rose to prominence at this time and many of these bands employed a contracted featured tap dancer. The drummers of these big bands were known to imitate the intricate rhythms of the tap dancers. Big bands are still thriving today. Join us as we celebrate BIG BANDS FROM THEN AND NOW directed and choreographed by Kyme Hersi-Sallid and performed by the Rhythm Keepers and Junior Rhythm Keepers tap companies, along with the Apprentice Rhythm Keepers. Guest artists, The Rug Cutters teen swing dancers, directed by Eliza Reese and Danny Iktomi Bevins, will thrill you as well. Join us on March 29th and 30th for the delicious rhythms of these combined art forms. Don’t forget to bring your tap shoes to join us on stage for the Shim Sham. Let’s Tap! 

Tickets go on sale March 3 (general admission): adults $20, students (18 & under) $10.

“Classics To Contemporary - Romantique, Classique, Tout Suit” Fall Ballet Show - Features excerpts from “Les Sylphide”, “Paquita”, and “Don Quixote”, as well as original contemporary ballet choreography by Guest Choreographer Liz Stillerman Anderson, and resident choreographers Devin Latham, Eliza Reese, Toya Willingham and Heather Yates.

• Tickets on sale Monday, October 14, 2024 - $20 Adult, $10 Students (18 and under)