American Dance Festival (ADF)

Upcoming Events

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ADF presents BODYTRAFFIC Unplugged

Monday, June 8 at 7:00pm

Program: Schachmatt, Coalescence, Incense Burning on a Saturday Morning: The Maestro Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission Tickets: Sliding scale of $10 / $20 / $30 Experience this ADF performance ...

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ADF presents Jesse Factor

Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30pm

ADF Debut Program: The Marthaodyssey Running time: 50 minutes, no intermission Tickets: $30-$45 Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office. Artist Website: www.jessefactor.com Jesse Factor’s solo work, The Marthaodyssey, ...

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ADF presents Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

Thursday, June 18 at 7:30pm

Program: Continuous Replay and Story/ Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission Tickets: $40-$70 Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office. Artist Website: newyorklivearts.org/btj-az-company/ Continuous Replay reflects Arnie Zane’s interests ...

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ADF presents Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company

Friday, June 19 at 7:30pm

Program: Continuous Replay and Story/ Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission Tickets: $40-$70 Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office. Artist Website: newyorklivearts.org/btj-az-company/ Continuous Replay reflects Arnie Zane’s interests ...

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ADF presents Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Saturday, June 20 at 2:00pm

Co-presented with Hayti Cultural Center Program: I AM ♫ This performance features live music! Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission Tickets: $30-$60 Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office. ...

Three dancers dressed in white are posing in a lunge

ADF presents Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Saturday, June 20 at 7:30pm

Co-presented with Hayti Cultural Center Program: I AM ♫ This performance features live music! Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission Tickets: $30-$60 Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office. ...

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ADF presents Made in NC

Monday, June 22 at 7:30pm

Co-presented with Cary, NC • ADF-Commissioned World Premieres • ADF Debuts Program: New works by Tracey Durbin, Jabu Graybeal, Courtney Liu, & Amanda K. Miller Running time: 90 minutes, including ...

Past Events

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Bulareyaung Dance Company

July 23, 2025

Program: Luna Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission Luna explores the truest form of man. Choreographed by Bulareyaung Pagarlava, dancers trek and search in the mountain mist under the moonlight, ...

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Limón Dance Company

July 19, 2025

ADF Commission Program: Two Ecstatic Themes by Doris Humphrey, J o i n by Aszure Barton, Scherzo by Jose Limón, The Quake That Held them All by Kayla Farrish Running ...

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet

July 17, 2025

Program: Deep River Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion on July 16th Deep River premiered May 13, 2022, as part of LINES Ballet’s 40th anniversary season. Over the ...

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet

July 16, 2025

Program: Deep River Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion on July 16th Deep River premiered May 13, 2022, as part of LINES Ballet’s 40th anniversary season. Over the ...

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Footprints

July 13, 2025

ADF Commissioned World Premieres Program: Works by Ravid Abarbanel, Michelle N. Gibson, & Tú Hoàng Running time: 90 minutes, includes one intermission The Footprints program bridges ADF’s performance and education ...

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Footprints

July 12, 2025

ADF Commissioned World Premieres Program: Works by Ravid Abarbanel, Michelle N. Gibson, & Tú Hoàng Running time: 90 minutes, includes one intermission The Footprints program bridges ADF’s performance and education ...

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Miguel Gutierrez

July 11, 2025

ADF Commission Program: Super Nothing Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion at all performances What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in ...

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Miguel Gutierrez

July 10, 2025

ADF Commission Program: Super Nothing Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion at all performances What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in ...

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Miguel Gutierrez

July 9, 2025

ADF Commission Program: Super Nothing Running time: 70 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion at all performances What can a dance do to confront the constant grief that we experience in ...

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Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects

July 6, 2025

Program: Volcano Running time: 225 minutes (four 45-minute pieces) includes three intermissions Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects brings four-time Irish Times Theatre Award winner Volcano to ADF this summer. In a ...

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Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects

July 5, 2025

Program: Volcano Running time: 225 minutes (four 45-minute pieces) includes three intermissions Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects brings four-time Irish Times Theatre Award winner Volcano to ADF this summer. In a ...

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Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects

July 4, 2025

Program: Volcano Running time: 225 minutes (four 45-minute pieces) includes three intermissions Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects brings four-time Irish Times Theatre Award winner Volcano to ADF this summer. In a ...

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Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects

July 3, 2025

Program: Volcano Running time: 225 minutes (four 45-minute pieces) includes three intermissions Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects brings four-time Irish Times Theatre Award winner Volcano to ADF this summer. In a ...

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Forces of Nature Dance Theatre

July 2, 2025

Program: B Flowin’ B Smoov, Wall Street, E.R., Rise, Terrestrial Wombs Running time: 87 minutes, including a pause and one intermission Post-Performance Discussion on July 1st An evening with Forces ...

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Forces of Nature Dance Theatre

July 1, 2025

Program: B Flowin’ B Smoov, Wall Street, E.R., Rise, Terrestrial Wombs Running time: 87 minutes, including a pause and one intermission Post-Performance Discussion on July 1st An evening with Forces ...

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Ballet Hispánico

June 29, 2025

Program: CARMEN.maquia Running time: 80 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion on June 27th Children’s Matinee on June 28th CARMEN.maquia reimagines Bizet’s legendary opera through bold and contemporary movement exploring themes ...

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Ballet Hispánico Children’s Matinee

June 28, 2025

Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission The Children’s Saturday Matinee series presents one-hour performances specially curated to ignite and inspire children’s imaginations. A FREE Kids’ Party follows each matinee at ...

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Ballet Hispánico

June 27, 2025

Program: CARMEN.maquia Running time: 80 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion on June 27th Children’s Matinee on June 28th at 12pm ($18 tickets) CARMEN.maquia reimagines Bizet’s legendary opera through bold and ...

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Anna Sperber

June 26, 2025

ADF Commission Program: Beacons Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion on June 25th We are beacons. Our dance is tenderness. It is the joy and complications of youth ...

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Anna Sperber

June 26, 2025

ADF Commission Program: Beacons Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion on June 25th We are beacons. Our dance is tenderness. It is the joy and complications of youth ...

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Anna Sperber

June 25, 2025

ADF Commission Program: Beacons Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission Post-Performance Discussion on June 25th We are beacons. Our dance is tenderness. It is the joy and complications of youth ...

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Pilobolus

June 21, 2025

Program: Particle Zoo, Bloodlines, Lamentation, Rushes Running time: 85 minutes, including one intermission Post-Performance Discussion on June 20th Children’s Matinee on June 21st at 12pm ($18 tickets) Immerse yourself in ...

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Pilobolus Children’s Matinee

June 21, 2025

Running time: 60 minutes, no intermission The Children’s Saturday Matinee series presents one-hour performances specially curated to ignite and inspire children’s imaginations. A FREE Kids’ Party follows each matinee at ...

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Pilobolus

June 20, 2025

Program: Particle Zoo, Bloodlines, Lamentation, Rushes Running time: 85 minutes, including one intermission Post-Performance Discussion on June 20th Children’s Matinee on June 21st at 12pm ($18 tickets) Immerse yourself in ...

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Made in NC

June 18, 2025

ADF Commissioned World Premieres • Co-presented by Cary, NC Program: Work by Alejandro Cerrudo, Norberto “Betto” Herrera, Gerri Houlihan, Tanu Sharma Running time: 87 minutes, including one intermission The Made ...

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Black Label Movement

October 13, 2024

Join ADF for a site-specific professional dance performance! Battleground is choreographer Carl Flink’s newest work, influenced by the physicality of Bodystorming, a technique he developed with biomedical engineer David Odde, ...

7 dancers laying in soil.

Black Label Movement

October 12, 2024

Join ADF for a site-specific professional dance performance! Battleground is choreographer Carl Flink’s newest work, influenced by the physicality of Bodystorming, a technique he developed with biomedical engineer David Odde, ...

7 dancers laying in soil.

Black Label Movement

October 12, 2024

Join ADF for a site-specific professional dance performance! Battleground is choreographer Carl Flink’s newest work, influenced by the physicality of Bodystorming, a technique he developed with biomedical engineer David Odde, ...

7 dancers laying in soil.

Black Label Movement

October 11, 2024

Join ADF for a site-specific professional dance performance! Battleground is choreographer Carl Flink’s newest work, influenced by the physicality of Bodystorming, a technique he developed with biomedical engineer David Odde, ...

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs. Photo by Zoe Litaker

Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs

September 12, 2024

“Dance, for our family, is a parenthesis for life experience. Periods of our lives that we spent working on choreography coincide with periods of major things happening in our lives ...

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Chris Yon & Taryn Griggs

September 12, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! YOGGS FAMILY NEWSLETTER, 2014-present, is an immersive experience where the audience is led through the lobby of the Nasher Museum of Art ...

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ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 28, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 28, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 27, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

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Paul Taylor Dance Company

July 27, 2024

Join ADF for a classic professional dance performance! The Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to ADF this summer, presenting three masterpieces from its repertory. Arden Court, a dance set to ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 27, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 26, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

A dancer in hot pink pants lifting another dancer in a matching leotard on his side.

Paul Taylor Dance Company

July 26, 2024

Join ADF for a classic professional dance performance! The Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to ADF this summer, presenting three masterpieces from its repertory. Arden Court, a dance set to ...

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Radical System Art

July 24, 2024

Join ADF for a multimedia professional dance performance! Choreographer and Radical System Art’s artistic director Shay Kuebler’s MOI-Momentum of Isolation is based on social isolation and loneliness, exploring objective and ...

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Radical System Art

July 23, 2024

Join ADF for a multimedia professional dance performance! Choreographer and Radical System Art’s artistic director Shay Kuebler’s MOI-Momentum of Isolation is based on social isolation and loneliness, exploring objective and ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 21, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 21, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 20, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 20, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

3 dancers holding a damaged mirror.

ShaLeigh Dance Works

July 19, 2024

Join ADF for an immersive professional dance performance! enVISION: The Next Chapter is an immersive interdisciplinary performance that relies not on sight or sound but on the felt sense of ...

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Urban Bush Women

July 18, 2024

Join ADF for a narrative dance performance! Set in a fictional jazz club, SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar is a dance-driven musical that ...

6 dancers in sparkly black dresses standing and gesturing next to each other.

Urban Bush Women

July 17, 2024

Join ADF for a narrative dance performance! Set in a fictional jazz club, SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar is a dance-driven musical that ...

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Footprints

July 14, 2024

Join ADF for a dance performance featuring 3 renowned choreographers and student performers! The Footprints program, which bridges ADF’s performance series and education programs, delivers an outstanding presentation of three ...

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Footprints

July 13, 2024

Join ADF for a dance performance featuring 3 renowned choreographers and student performers! The Footprints program, which bridges ADF’s performance series and education programs, delivers an outstanding presentation of three ...

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Milka Djordjevich

July 12, 2024

Join ADF for an exciting professional dance performance! Bob is a manic whirlwind of methodical, rapid-fire movements dictated, performed, and self-enforced by Milka Djordjevich. Set to bold music and silence, ...

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Milka Djordjevich

July 11, 2024

Join ADF for an exciting professional dance performance! Bob is a manic whirlwind of methodical, rapid-fire movements dictated, performed, and self-enforced by Milka Djordjevich. Set to bold music and silence, ...

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Made in NC

July 7, 2024

Join ADF for a dance performance featuring local choreographers! The Made in NC program features the world premiere of four ADF-commissioned works by North Carolina artists. Dom-Sebastian Alexis, a Greensboro ...

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Pilobolus

July 6, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! This summer, Pilobolus is bringing its Re:CREATION tour to ADF, presenting a dynamic collection of dance pieces-daring experiments and ...

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Pilobolus Children’s Matinee

July 6, 2024

Join ADF for a one-hour performance specially curated to ignite and inspire children’s imaginations. A FREE Kids’ Party follows each matinee at the Landing of the Bryan Center, complete with ...

A cluster of dancers lifting and supporting eachother in front of a black background.

Pilobolus

July 5, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! This summer, Pilobolus is bringing its Re:CREATION tour to ADF, presenting a dynamic collection of dance pieces-daring experiments and ...

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Netta Yerushalmy’s MOVEMENT

July 2, 2024

Join ADF for maximalist professional dance performance! MOVEMENT, by Netta Yerushalmy, synthesizes over one hundred citations from an expansive range of dances across genres and cultures. It is a radical ...

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Les Ballet Afrik

June 29, 2024

Join ADF for an exciting professional dance performance! Back by popular demand, Les Ballet Afrik’s New York is Burning draws inspiration from the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning and its ...

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Les Ballet Afrik

June 28, 2024

Join ADF for an exciting professional dance performance! Back by popular demand, Les Ballet Afrik’s New York is Burning draws inspiration from the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning and its ...

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Kayla Farrish

June 27, 2024

Join ADF for a riveting professional dance performance! Put Away the Fire, dear is a live dance-theater work mapping the journey of six BIPOC and marginalized characters taking the reins ...

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Kayla Farrish

June 26, 2024

Join ADF for a riveting professional dance performance! Put Away the Fire, dear is a live dance-theater work mapping the journey of six BIPOC and marginalized characters taking the reins ...

A dancer pointng a camcorder towards the viewer with her other arm raised in a loose fist.

Kayla Farrish

June 25, 2024

Join ADF for a riveting professional dance performance! Put Away the Fire, dear is a live dance-theater work mapping the journey of six BIPOC and marginalized characters taking the reins ...

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Doug Varone and Dancers

June 23, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! To My Arms/Restore is a new two-part work embodying Doug Varone’s decades-long choreographic fascination with the profoundly emotional and ...

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Baye & Asa

June 22, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! ADF alumni Amadi Washington and Sam Pratt are returning to ADF with 4/2/3, which focuses on the generational impacts ...

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Baye & Asa

June 21, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! ADF alumni Amadi Washington and Sam Pratt are returning to ADF with 4/2/3, which focuses on the generational impacts ...

A black and white image of two dancers reaching their left arms towards eachother.

Baye & Asa

June 20, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! ADF alumni Amadi Washington and Sam Pratt are returning to ADF with 4/2/3, which focuses on the generational impacts ...

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Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE

June 19, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns to ADF with Upside Down, a strongly African work about loss and growth out of ...

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Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE

June 18, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns to ADF with Upside Down, a strongly African work about loss and growth out of ...

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Ballet Hispánico

June 16, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! Ballet Hispánico, the largest Latinx/Latine/Hispanic cultural organization in the United States, returns to ADF this summer with their recent ...

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Hung Dance

June 15, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! In 2017, choreographer Lai Hung-Chung founded Hung Dance, with the name Hung symbolizing the spirit of soaring freedom. Born ...

A man wearing all black supports another dancer wearing a red wig as does a tilt jump.

Ballet Hispánico Children’s Matinee

June 15, 2024

Join ADF for a one-hour performance specially curated to ignite and inspire children’s imaginations. A FREE Kids’ Party follows each matinee at the Landing of the Bryan Center, complete with ...

A profile view of a man standing against a red background with black tendrils coming up from the floor.

Hung Dance

June 14, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! In 2017, choreographer Lai Hung-Chung founded Hung Dance, with the name Hung symbolizing the spirit of soaring freedom. Born ...

A man wearing all black supports another dancer wearing a red wig as she does a tilt jump.

Ballet Hispánico

June 13, 2024

Join ADF for a performance by a renowned professional dance company! Ballet Hispánico, the largest Latinx/Latine/Hispanic cultural organization in the United States, returns to ADF this summer with their recent ...