Join us at Dance Loft to witness Moveius Contemporary Ballet rehearse GLACIER: A Climate Change Ballet, followed by a conversation with Choreographer, Dance Loft Artistic Director, and Climate Policy expert, Diana Movius.
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It’s Earth Month! In conjunction with the Portrait Gallery’s “Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism” exhibition, Moveius Contemporary Ballet will present "Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet." Created by Moveius Artistic Director Diana Movius, a climate policy expert, this piece imagines the dancers as melting polar ice caps; they ripple, crack and plunge in dance movements that connect the audience to the motion of ice in the arctic.
This event is free and open to the public! Join us at the Portrait Gallery’s Atrium for the performance.
Join Dance Loft on 14 for our annual Spring Showcase, featuring Dance Loft’s youth students, Moveius Contemporary Ballet dancers, and community artists & renters. This family-friendly event is a wonderful goodbye to our spring semester and a perennial Dance Loft classic!
Join Moveius for VISIONS, their final performance of the 2023/24 season! VISIONS offers five entrancing dance works compellingly reflecting on life and nature where you will witness works from acclaimed DC dancers Therese Gahl and Jenelle Figgins, Ballet Master Adam Chavis, and two works from Artistic Director Diana Movius, including the world premiere of Seasons. Spring Show Sponsorships and ticketing for our Spring Soirée can also be found on this page.
Join Moveius Contemporary Ballet for Voices from Within, a program created for The Atlas Intersections Festival in Washington, DC, featuring four female choreographers from the nation’s capital. Through movement’s power to spark kinesthetic empathy and connect audiences, these pieces create dance grounded in urgent and real world experiences. Purchase tickets here.
Join us this December at Dance Loft’s Blackbox Theater for our annual production of The Nutcracker! From our youth cohort to professional DC dancers and Moveius Contemporary Ballet members, our whole community takes part in this festive and classic tale.
Youth tickets can be selected below. For our student discount, use the code DANCESTUDENT at checkout.
Moveius Contemporary Ballet presents Tipping Point, a three-part meditation through dance on living in times of instability. Moveius’ Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet will take to the stage once more after it became the first ballet ever presented as part of an international climate conference in 2018. Created by Dance Loft/Moveius Artistic Director & Climate Policy Expert Diana Movius, this piece imagines the dancers as melting polar ice caps. Read more about the piece in The Washington Post here.
Associate Director, Alvaro Palau, and company member, Elizabeth Watson, present two new works focused on power dynamics. Watson’s Shortfall explores the effect of diminishing resources on a close-knit group, the drama heightened by percussive movements and the driving music of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero. Palau’s Birds of a Feather explores both exile and belonging, loosely inspired by a flock of birds. With this compelling program, Moveius Contemporary Ballet presents an exciting evening of dance relevant to our current times.
Learn more about Moveius Contemporary Ballet and the company members here.
We offer youth tickets for ages 12 and under, which can be selected below. Student discounts can be applied with the code DANCESTUDENT at checkout.
