DANCE

The Dance Gathering is intended to be an all-encompassing, community dance performance event, open to choreographers at every level of skill and experience, beginning to advanced, emerging to professional.

The objective of The Dance Gathering is to come together several times a year as a community and to celebrate the diversity of choreographic talent and perspectives here in Houston. Each Dance Gathering is an approximately 90-minute performance featuring only short works (up to 4 minutes each) by as many as 20 different choreographers, representing a wide variety of dance genres.

The environment is non-competitive, one where choreographers at different stages of experience can enjoy a very low-cost opportunity to show a new choreographic work, see a sampling of many other choreographers’ work, socialize with one another as dance professionals and enthusiasts, and encourage younger, emerging contemporary dance choreographers to keep creating original, inventive work right here in Houston. It is designed to be a fun, pleasant, and rewarding experience for all involved.

The Dance Gathering is held three times a year at Barnevelder: fall, spring, and summer. The fall 2010 Dance Gathering performance will be held on Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 7:00 pm and applications, which may be downloaded by clicking below, are due by Friday, October 1, 2010. Performance slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, however, meaning that all 20 performance slots will be filled as applications come in, and may get filled up before the October 1 application deadline. So get your application in ASAP!

Dance Gathering Fall 2010 Application Form.