Welcome to
Connec(TX)ions Dance Festival!

PROGRAM

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FRIDAY, JUNE 5

Temple of Fine Arts Texas: Jathi-swaram
Choreography: Lakshmi Krishnan, Sivakami S       
Performers: Sivakami, Deepthi Pant, Varshini Mahesh Prabhu, Shresta Harish, Tejasvini Ram, Kara Hinckley, Mahathi Mahesh, Sravya Akella, Aidan Dewitt, Meghana Govind
Music: Madhuvanthi, Temple of Fine Arts Texas

UTRGV Dance Ensemble: Détente
Choreography: Rebeca Gamborino
Performers: Angelica Aguirre, Sofía de la Cerda, Jennaka Mayela Martínez, Rebekah Matias, Natalia Montiel Carrizales, Understudies: Angeles Baldovinos & Idani Itzel Gonzalez
Music: Circules, Hironori Takahashi 

Brenna Mulligan: What Could Have Been
Choreographer & Performer: Brenna Mulligan
Music: What Could Have Been, Sting, Ray Chen

Worm Regards: Ages & Ages
Choreographer: Siobhan Klugh
Performers: Laura Merkel, Lilly Wylde, Jess Gray, Heather Meeboer
Music: The Big Ship, In a River (instrumental) & Honey Island Special, Brian Eno, Rostam, & Little Mazarn

Ballet Texas: Rhapsody
Choreographer: CC Cummings
Performers: Brielle Tripke, Elizabeth Kokaska, Sonya Khryanovsky, Emily Edwards, Mariana Alonso
Music: Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

20-MINUTE INTERMISSION 

ADC RDC: Consequences
Choreographers & Performers: Alycia Williams & Elizabeth Coleman
Music: Consequences, Luca D'Alberto

Mia Moi: Clair de Lune
Choreographer & Performer: Mia Moi
Music: Clair de Lune, Claude Debussy

Spaces of Fontana: Poetic Passage
Choreographer: Evelyn Joy Hoelscher
Performers: Evelyn Joy Hoelscher, Nicole Dugdale, Matthew Sommers
Music: Remembrance, Balmorhea

Brielle Tripke: Body as Foundry
Choreographer: Brielle Tripke
Performers: Brielle Tripke, Elizabeth Kokaska, Roberto Cobos, Mariana Alonso
Music: The Last Foundry, Raime

Mira Cook: Mainly Just Eyes
Choreographer: Mira Cook in collaboration with Anna Bauer & Jairus Carr
Performers: Anna Bauer & Jairus Carr
Music: Original audio by Mira Cook, Anna Bauer & Jairus Carr

Red Nightfall Dance Theatre: The Follower
Choreographer: Dorothy O'Shea Overbey
Performers: Rachel Cox Culver & Clay Moore
Music: Etudes-Tableaux, Opus 39: No. 2 in A minor, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pianist Pavel Dombrovsky

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6

Revision Dance Company

Metamorphosis Dance

Jami Robben

ATMA Moves - featuring independent artists

ESPA PTP

BHumn Arts Ensemble

INTERMISSION

Early Era Collective

Hannah Christian

Elements Academy of Dance

Allysen Hooks Projects

Dance Waterloo

Ventana Ballet

Special CTXDF thanks to Alejandro & Construction Crew, Stephen Pruitt, Art Seen Alliance, and ALL of the ESPA Volunteers!

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