One of our goals at the Dance Collective is to foster burgeoning local dance and movement initiatives. A new called, called [undefined]movers, is a comptemporary dance company formed by Kristin Benner, Chelsea Harkelroad and Janae Stewart, who met at Hope College.

They’ll be performing in our space in the Elliot Studio next Saturday, July 17 at 7:00 pm. From their press release:

The performance will consist of five diverse contemporary dance pieces. Ms. Benner choreographed two pieces, one of which entitled “Kicks and Gigs” was originally created and performed for the student choreographed and student led dance performance at Hope College. The second piece she choreographed is called “Amidst”, which is a solo performed to live acoustic guitar played by Adam Nelson. Ms. Harkelroad choreographed a duet that Ms. Stewart has reset entitled “Aviemore” exploring the journey of a relationship through movement as well as the finale, “Scarce”. A collaboration jazz piece called “After Hours” is a piece coming to life before the audience eyes as the dances improvise to the original jazz score by a jazz band. The musicians, Mike Bass, Kin Fong, Mike Reynolds, and James Sa recorded music specifically for this performance called “After Hours”. Harkelroad will also present a work-in-progress called “You Say”.

Tickets are a steal at $2, and are only available at the door. We hope you can make it!