Join us at the 2023 Alabama Dance Festival. As one of the largest gatherings of dancers and dance enthusiasts in the Southeast, the Alabama Dance Festival will immerse you in master classes with world-renowned teachers, audition opportunities, teacher training, networking, performances by regional dance groups, and a guest company.  Each year, the Alabama Dance Festival boasts a weekend full of performances.  Participants and public alike enjoy work presented in a range of styles and traditions by schools, studios, companies, and choreographers in our annual New Works Concert and Alabama Dance Festival Showcase.

Festival Schedule:

January 13, 2023

9:00 AM-3:00 PM: Dance for Schools: Move and Groove Through Your Curriculum

Track Purple Classes (High School Seniors, College, Professional)

Adrienne Clancy
ClancyWorks

Dr. Adrienne Clancy applies her 30+ years of tried and true classroom techniques that create a safe and brave space for educators to strategize various arts integration methods that energize your class plans! As exemplified in her TEDx Talk, Dr. Clancy will address standards based P12 curriculum for core subject areas demonstrated through multiple learning styles: kinesthetic, visual, auditory, logical, social, emotional.  Let’s move and groove, connecting and enhancing critical thinking and literacy skills, as we embrace 21st Century learning techniques through a lens of diversity, inclusion and equity.  You’ll walk away with techniques for integrating the arts to authentically engage students’ critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills.

Location: The Dance Foundation, Studio 1

January 20, 2023

1:00 PM-3:00 PM: Audition: Summer Intensives & College Recruiting (HS Seniors - College)

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: Audition: Summer Intensive Programs (ages 15 - HS Juniors)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Auditions: Summer Intensive Programs (ages 11-14)

7:00 PM-8:00 PM: Exhibit Hall

7:50 PM-8:00 PM: Opening Ceremony

8:00 PM-9:30 PM: Alabama Screendance Festival

January 21, 2023

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Contemporary Ballet (P)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Syncopated Ladies: Light the Fire (Intermediate Tap) (PR)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: The Business of Dance (PR)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Gus Giordano Jazz Technique (R )

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Ballet Technique (R)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Bharatanatyam: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou (R )

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Jazz (G)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Contemporary Movement for the Genius (G)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Classical Ballet Technique (G)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Dance Entrepreneurship (P)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Jazz (P)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Syncopated Ladies: Taking it to the Stage (Advanced Tap) (PR)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: American Dance Festival: Modern Flow (R)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Pointe Technique (R )

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Dance Filmmaking (R )

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Bharatanatyam: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou (G)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Gus Giordano Jazz Technique (G)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Pointe Technique (G)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Gus Giordano Jazz Technique (P)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Salsa Conditioning (P)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: American Dance Festival: Modern Flow (P)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Gumboot: South African Boot Dance (P)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Convesation: "Black Dance in the Southeast" (PR)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: The School at Jacob's Pillow: Tap Workshop and Audition (PR)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Isadora Duncan Technique & Repertory (R )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Jazz (R )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Ballet Variations/Repertory (R )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Syncopated Ladies: It's Your Time (Tap Technique) (G)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Technology of the Circle (G)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Beginning House Dance (G)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Exhibit Hall

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: New Works Concert

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Helen Simoneau Danse Performance

January 22, 2023

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Isadora Duncan Technique & Repertory (P)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Improv: Space Carcasses (P)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Contemporary Partnering (P)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Bharatanatyam: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou (P)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Classical Ballet Technique (P)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Helen Simoneau Danse Repetory (R )

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Salsa Conditioning (R )

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Intro. to House Dance (R )

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Dance Filmmaking (G)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Helen Simoneau Danse Repetory (G)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: African Heat: Afrobeats Dance Flavor (G)

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Musical Theatre Dance (G)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Helen Simoneau Danse Repetory (P)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Intro. to House Dance (P)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Ballet Repertory (P)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Dance Filmmaking (P)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Musical Theatre Dance (PR)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Technology of the Circle (R )

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: African Heat: Afrobeats Dance Flavor (R)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Contemporary Movement for the Genius (R )

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Isadora Duncan Technique & Repertory (G)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Contemporary Ballet Repertoire (G)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Salsa Conditioning (G)

12:30 PM-2:30 PM: Exhibit Hall

2:30 PM-4:30 PM: Alabama Dance Festival Showcase

Fest Date: January 20 - 22, 2023

Location: Various Location in Birmingham, AL

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