UAA Dance in Concert Retrospective 2023 - Anchorage Museum - April 7
This annual and final event produced by the UAA Dance Program, Department of Theatre and Dance, presented new choreographies and repertory work, one livestream dance event, and the premiere of five dance films.
Anchoring each hour and fifteen performance will be a twenty minute set of live jazz music and dance in the atrium with returning guest artist Katherine Kramer, returning alumna and faculty Katya Kuznetsova, Momentum Artistic Director Becky Kendall, UAA Professor Jill Flanders Crosby, and returning guest artist musicians Ray Booker and Stephanie Haskins on bass and piano respectively.
Performers included current dance students, former dance program alumni and guest artists - both dancers and musicians - returning to Alaska to honour the dance program for its vital presence in Anchorage for more than 48 years. Also featured will be community dancers from Momentum Dance Collective and Sunlight Collaboration, and the UAA Indigenous Performing Arts Class under the direction of Professor Maria Williams.
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Photos below by Katie Benke
