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,

In backyards and studios, and at the Darkhorse, OZ, and TPAC, there are several dance performances this month. I’m continually reminded of how I love the span of it all ~ from informal and in-process sharing to polished, produced performances. I plan to be at several this month. If you enjoy improvisation in an open-level group, come Frolic with me at Art & Soul on the 22nd.

Online comprehensive listings are here. Instagram: follow and tag #NashvilleDanceCommunity. Facebook: www.facebook.com/nashvilledancecommunity

Also follow Nashville Dance Alliance on Instagram and check out their site. This is not my endeavor, and I’m glad someone is able to build out a website for classes, performances, etc. Please utilize it, but keep submitting listings to this email as well: https://nashvilledancealliance.com/

Amanda

November Dance Happenings

Nashville School for the Arts presents Haunted Ballet, an outdoor student performance, Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2 and 7:30 pm. Click here for tickets.

Nashville Dance Collective hosts  – Fall Collection 1 – November 9th & 10th @ Centennial Performing Arts Studio: Join NDC and friends at an informal, autumnal showing of new, in-progress, and finished dance works by local and regional artists. Support and enjoy creativity, self-expression, and accessible art in the changing season! 8:30 Saturday and 7:30 Sunday |Get tickets here|

di Mossa will be appearing in the NDC  “Fall Collection 1” A brand new work with Allison Hardee, Molly Haslag and new company dancer McKelynn Barber, inspired by our ongoing relationship with water.

Garage Collective will be participating in the Full Moon Phase of BACKSTAGE’s Moon Phase Lab on Friday, November 15th at 6:30 pm. Reach out to Phylicia at phylicia.roybal@gmail.com for more information. 

OZ Arts Nashville presents the U.S. Premiere of Emma Sandall’s collaboration with Paul Vasterling: An Ambivalent Woman of 37, November 15 & 16. Blending stunning movement with multimedia, live music, and theatricality, Emma Sandall’s tour-de-force performance An Ambivalent Woman of 37 confronts that most vexatious of questions: do I want a child? Based on Sheila Heti’s acclaimed book Motherhood, which was hailed by The Guardian as “a finely wrought work of delicate art,” this deeply personal show brings together a stellar lineup of talent with composition by Elena Kats Chernin, piano by Alessandra Volpi, creative direction by Emma Sandall, and consulting support from Paul Vasterling, Artistic Director Emeritus of Nashville Ballet. Tickets from $25 + more info at ozartsnashville.org/emma-sandall

Friday-Sunday November 15-17, 2024:  Dance Terra Let’s gather! Registration is OPEN for Dance Terra 2024 !! Last year was such a wild success with so many people sharing how the weekend dramatically and positively impacted their lives. Great connections were forged, and insights gleaned. It’s a deep dive together and a rich reset and renewal this November gathering the Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga conscious communities. It includes: 

  • two ecstatic dances/freeform movement jam
  • an immersive breathwork journey
  • wood fired sauna
  • stone hot tub
  • private waterfalls
  • being deep in a magical forest at Gray Bear Holistic Retreat Center
  • community connection
  • organic local yummy food
  • and so much more.

Early birth special through November 7 is $100 off. Reach out if you have any questions. Info and registration at www.DanceTerra.org


November 16th DancEast Company In-Studio Showing
Join us at 7:00 p.m. in the studio for an informal showing of our latest work with DancEast Artist in Residence, Becca Hoback. Becca will share some of her process and the Company will perform an excerpt of Becca’s new creation. This is a free event!

Thursday, November 21, 2024: New Dialect Master Class/Community Workshop for Ages 16+ Location: TPAC’s Johnson Theater
Class/Workshop: 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Rehearsal viewing and Q&A: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Free, but reservation required. Reserve here. Join us for a creative process exploration that applies the kids of activities used to create 21 Yeses. Drawing on her twenty-year career in contemporary dance and choreography, Banning Bouldin leads participants through a number of movement games to explore self-expression, physical storytelling, and how to create movement languages. TPAC’s co-presentation of New Dialect’s 21 Yeses is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Tennessee Arts Commission.

New Dialect: 21 Yeses

November 22-24, 2024
Location: TPAC’s Johnson Theater
Tickets on sale now at TPAC.org Post-show TalkBack following the November 24, 2:00 PM performance. 21 Yeses is a dance of light and void, a theatrical form of sensory perception that soothes and mesmerizes as it awakens audiences into a luminous hyperdream. Taking on the tech-aesthetic of a space odyssey, New Dialect plays with hi-grade electricity, the presence of absence, and the geometries of choreography to encounter light as a sentient form of movement and darkness itself as an action, a vast stillness. Combining the practice of contemporary dance with lighting technologies borrowed from the concert industry, choreographer Banning Bouldin (New Dialect) and production designer Michael Brown (Bon Iver) create an experience where motion and light capture and release one another inside the awe of an endless distance.

TPAC’s co-presentation of New Dialect’s 21 Yeses is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Tennessee Arts Commission.

Friday Night Frolic November 22, 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.

Global Education Center presents Indigenous Voices: Proud Traditions, an evening of dances of  the powwow. Saturday, November 30 at 2 pm at Darkhorse Theater. The show will start with a very short film on the myth of the first Thanksgiving; the show features world champion dancer Larry Yazzie and local grass dancer Trenton Wheeler.

Ongoing

Drop into DancEast Company Class every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Open to dancers of all backgrounds, the lineup includes Ballet for Contemporary Dancers with Denise Eason, Contemporary with Marcela De La Vega Luna, and guest instructors Stacie Flodd-Popp and Amanda Reichert. Pay what you want $5-$20. Visit https://danceast.org/adults for the full schedule and sign up info.

Nashville Contact Improvisation will be having its last class and jams of the year on Wednesday, November 13th and December 11th, 7-8:30pm at Eastwood Christian Church. 

Embodied Creativity, November 2nd, 10am-12pm at The Loft at Third Coast Comedy Club. Embodied Creativity is an ongoing class that combines improvised play and creative expression in community. Whether you’re an experienced performer, or simply looking to unleash your creative spirit, this workshop invites anyone eager to play and discover new ways of expressing themselves. Come ready to move, laugh, and connect! Suggested donation of $15.

Sunday Morning Adult Creative Movement and Contact Improvisation at Centennial Performing Arts Studios continues through the month of November, 1st and 3rd Sunday are Adult Creative Movement, 2nd and 4th Sunday are CI. Classes are 10-11:30am. Class cards can be purchased during the week AND on November 3rd when Metro Dance will be hosting an adult open house 12:30-2:30pm with a free class sampler. 

di Mossa Ongoing classes on Tuesday and Thursday 12:30 -2:00  thru November 21. Special guest alert … Allison Hardee will be teaching her so much fun jazz class on ***November 19 and 21 ***  $12 drop-in. Email Lisa with any questions: dimossaxo@gmail.com

Try Adult classes with the Metro Parks Dance Division. Drop-in at Centennial Performing Arts Studios any day Sunday-Friday at 10 am for a great class in ballet, contemporary, Gyrokinesis, creative movement for adults, contact improvisation and more or head out to one of Metro Parks’ many community centers for more classes in West AfricanTai Chi, Gyrokinesis (in Madison!), Pilates and DanceFit.. Full schedule: https://www.friendsofmetrodance.org/classesforadults.html

New Dialect community classes continue through November 6, Mondays + Wednesdays from 10-11:30 AM at Centennial Performing Arts Studios. Folks of all levels and backgrounds, ages 16+, are invited to join us for a series of contemporary movement sessions in a fun and supportive environment. Don’t miss this chance to connect and collaborate with members of Nashville’s amazing dance community! $10 drop in/$4 BIPOC + seniors. Walk ups are welcome. More info: newdialect.org/community-classes

Ecstatic Dance Nashville is the first and third Sunday of each month, 10:30 am at Millennium Dance Complex. Click here for details.

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.