{254}DANCE-FEST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OPEN JANUARY 1ST, 2019
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
{254} DANCE-FEST strives to bring professional and pre-professional contemporary movement ideas to Central Texas. The hope is to provide the local audience with exposure to artists pushing the limits of contemporary and classical dance.
{254} DANCE-FEST is facilitated through Waco Cultural Arts Fest and Out On a Limb Dance Company, both entities are excited about setting a stage for professional contemporary dance in Waco, bringing in guests artists, and encouraging local artist to participate and collaborate in the process.
Waco Cultural Arts Fest's mission is to celebrate and promote the community’s diverse artistic and cultural life; develop and enrich its cultural capacity; and champion the economic, social, and educational benefits of the arts in the Greater Waco area and beyond.
{254} DANCE-FEST is facilitated through Waco Cultural Arts Fest and Out On a Limb Dance Company, both entities are excited about setting a stage for professional contemporary dance in Waco, bringing in guests artists, and encouraging local artist to participate and collaborate in the process.
Waco Cultural Arts Fest's mission is to celebrate and promote the community’s diverse artistic and cultural life; develop and enrich its cultural capacity; and champion the economic, social, and educational benefits of the arts in the Greater Waco area and beyond.
meet the creative team
L. Brooke Schlecte - Director
Micah Ledger - Assistant to Director
Jamie Sandusky - Assistant to Director
Maryann Morgan - Intern
Jillian Addair - committee member
Micah Ledger - Assistant to Director
Jamie Sandusky - Assistant to Director
Maryann Morgan - Intern
Jillian Addair - committee member
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2016 Professional Series
FESTIVAL YOUTH PROGRAMS
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254ChoreoDANZexchange emerged as a way to collaborate with the Waco community dancers in the creative process.
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254 Next Generation Choreography Series is new to the dance festival! Emerging choreographers ages 13-18 were invited to submit proposals for dance performances with similar guidelines to the professional series. The choreographers were then challenged to step outside of their comfort zone by experimenting with new music, dance, and choreographic ideas that challenged the young artist to explore the question “what is dance”?
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KIDS DANCE PROGRAM
Kids Dance Program is a performance offered to local school children ages Kindergarten through 3rd grade on the Friday morning of the festival weekend.
Kids dance is a "lecture/demonstration" performance that discusses:
Audience Etiquette
History and Cultural of Dance
Theatre Vocabulary
How to make a dance
Elements of Dance
Relationship between music and dance
Professional dancers will perform
Cultural Dance video from around the world
Students dance, volunteer, and interact with the performers
Why should we dance? How can we dance more often?
Kids dance is a "lecture/demonstration" performance that discusses:
Audience Etiquette
History and Cultural of Dance
Theatre Vocabulary
How to make a dance
Elements of Dance
Relationship between music and dance
Professional dancers will perform
Cultural Dance video from around the world
Students dance, volunteer, and interact with the performers
Why should we dance? How can we dance more often?