Here is a listing I pull together of monthly dance happenings in the Nashville area, as a volunteer effort to help strengthen connections among local dancers and dance groups. If you would like to be added to this and be able to submit listings, click here to subscribe.
Greetings Dance Community,
I hope you are all healthy and had a good start to the new year. I expect I’ll see some of you this month in classes, at Oz or other shows, or perhaps online or at Art & Soul for one of my workshops. Let’s continue to support each other!
Online comprehensive listings are here. Instagram: follow and tag #NashvilleDanceCommunity. Facebook: www.facebook.com/nashvilledancecommunity
Amanda
January Dance Happenings
New Dialect’s Winter Intensive 2025 continues through January 10, at Centennial Performing Arts Studios, with remaining session featuring teaching artist Rena Butler. Sessions are designed for advanced dancers, 18+.
Multiple registration options are available, including drop ins for all day or warm up and class. Visit newdialect.org for detailed schedule, workshop descriptions, and to sign up.
Community class students get 10% off tuition when you use the code NDFRIEND10% at check out!
Authentic Movement four week series with Deanie French begins Wednesday, January 8th at Art & Soul Studio. Authentic Movement or Contemplative Movement is sometimes called the prayer of the body. With the unconditional, receptive support of the Witness, the Mover with eyes closed explores inner space, following the body’s lead.?One recovers memories, releases holding in the body, experiences inspirational moments, and touches inner freedom and transcendence. Wednesdays, 10 am – 1 pm. Click here to register.
In Words and Body: Articulating Your Vision ONLINE with Amanda Cantrell Roche This workshop sparks an intuitive flow of dreams and visions through authentic movement of your body and painting visions in the canvas of air and space, as well as a playful approach to articulating your vision in words. Through the body and the written word, you’ll create the passageways to your dreams. Offered via Art & Soul Friday, January 10th, 6-8 pm. $30. Click here to register.
RIPPLEFFECT WINTER INTENSIVE 2025
5 days JANUARY 12-16
6 world renowned Mentors: Stacie Flood-Popp, Justin Conte, Erica Sobol, Teddy Tedholm, Destini Rogers, Candace Brown
5 Apprentices: Rachell Peace, Anna Kriofske, JaVonte’ Marquez, Maya Paletta & Gage Wayne
A community of Dancers
OUR MISSION:
RIPPLEFFECT is a powerful experience for evolving Choreographers and Dancers. Our winter intensive offers the community an open environment dedicated to growth through feedback, application and practice. By challenging your comfort zone, expanding your movement vocabulary, and refining your intentionality through movement, growth in self and craft is inevitable. Visit our website for more information
Artist Proposals for Kindling Arts Festival 2025 are being accepted now through Monday, January 20th. Fortunes & Fates sets the stage for our 8th annual Festival of radically unique arts programming, featuring wide variety of performances and events from July 24-27, 2025 (Thursday – Sunday) at multiple venues across West Nashville. Artists from any performance medium are encouraged to submit their boldest, most daring new performance creations for consideration. Short-form performance works (under 25 mins) to be shown in a showcase setting or stand-alone evening-length works (45+ mins) are both of interest. Continuing Kindling’s commitment to radical accessibility, there is no fee to apply. Learn more and submit your proposal at: https://www.kindlingarts.com/artist-applications
Friday Night Frolic January 24, 6-7:30 pm at Art & Soul Studio with Amanda Cantrell Roche. Frolics are playful and fun movement improvisation for adults. It’s open level, and many participants do not have dance training, though trained dancers are welcome. Come move in a safe and playful atmosphere, and consider bringing a friend with whom you’d like to share the magic of group improvisation. $20. Click here to register.
OZ Arts Nashville presents internationally acclaimed Congolese choreographer and writer Faustin Linyekula’s riveting work My Body, My Archive for two performances only, January 24 & 25. With a gripping blend of exquisite movement, poetic text, and evocative live music, Linyekula reckons with what it means to seek beauty — to write or sing or dance — when surrounded by violence and loss. The visceral and elegant work nurtures hope in the face of the ongoing legacy of war and ruin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Along with evocative live music by potent trumpeter Heru Shabaka-Ra of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Linyekula combines the power of theater, the expressive force of dance and sharp political critique to explore post-colonial reality, summon his ancestors, and examine political struggles with courage. Tickets from $25 at: ozartsnashville.org/faustin-linyekula
Jan 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville Symphony is hosting the “Lunar New Year” special concert. Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville’s dancers are presenting 3 dances choreographed by Jen-Jen Lin, CAAN’s director. Info and tickets: www.ChineseArtsAlliance.org
TPAC presents MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY, the oldest dance company in the United States and the first integrated dance company. Works performed in this engagement were inspired by a variety of sources, including the American frontier with Appalachian Spring, a nod to American folk music with We the People, and techno club scenes with CAVE. Additionally, the breathtaking solo Immediate Tragedy—lost since the 1930s and recently recovered and reimagined—returns to the stage, offering audiences a rare glimpse into Graham’s genius. January 31st, February 1 and 2. Click here for tickets.
Ongoing
di Mossa is back in the studio on January 7th! Company class is open to dancers looking for a contemporary class with a dash of somatics, a base of classical modern forms, some phrase work and plenty of space for your own individual expression. Tuesday and Thursday 12:30 -2:00 at Centennial Performing arts Studios.
$12 drop in or $60 for 6 classes.
We love to meet new dancers and our community is very welcoming. Get in touch : email dimossaxo@gmail.com or website dimossa.org ( join our email list )
Weekly classes will run until May. Please note no class on Thursday Jan. 9
Dance into 2025 with DancEast Collective! Open-level Evening Classes (payment options ranging from $12-$15/class) begin throughout January – Mondays Modern/Contemporary with Shabaz Ujima, Tuesdays Jazz with Tony Perrin, Wednesdays Ballet with Denise Eason, Thursdays Contemporary with Stacie Flood-Popp. Morning Classes with DancEast Company (pay what you can $5-$20) start back January 21 – Wednesdays Contemporary with Marcela De La Vega Luna, Mondays Ballet for Contemporary Dancers with Denise Eason. Sunday Tap Dance Series with Delaine Dobbs start January 12 – with options for all levels. At DancEast Collective – 805 Woodland Street in East Nashville. Register now at danceast.org/adults
Ecstatic Dance Nashville is the first and third Sunday of each month, 10:30 am at Millennium Dance Complex. Click here for details.
February Save the Date
Blue Moves Modern Dance Company presents “Scars” on February 22 at West End United Methodist at 6 pm. This production is based around physical and emotional scars, the process of healing, and promotes conversation about the challenges of the human experience. Because scars affect all humans, guest artists will help demonstrate our diverse community and multigenerational voices. We hope to inform and inspire our patrons to experience various methods of healing, human will, and perseverance by sharing our own stories, local resources, and actionable steps. Along with dance and film, an informative wellness fair will take place before the show. We are still in need of financial sponsorships. For more information or to view a sponsorship package, please email bluemovesmoderndance@gmail.com. www.bluemoves.org
This is a gathering of events I am aware of, submitted by those on the email list, and by no means represents all that is going on in the Middle TN area. I provide it as a volunteer service to the local dance community as part of an effort to help us stay connected and support each other by raising awareness of local dance performances, workshops and events, and rely on those on the list serve to submit the listings.