Aperatures: UNM Fall Student Dance Concert
Artistic Director Vladimir Conde Reche presents Apertures – the Fall Student Dance Concert featuring new dance works in flamenco and contemporary. The Student Dance Concerts, presented every fall and spring semester, have always been a cornerstone of the UNM Dance Department, as it offers students a chance to develop their own artistic voice, and present works to an audience, some of them for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to see young fresh voices supported by a team of their peers!
Week #1: October 24 and 25 at 7:30pm, October 26 at 2:00pm
Week #2: October 30 and 31 and November 1 at 7:30pm
Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance
Tickets at unmtickets.com or the UNM Bookstore
Aperatures: UNM Fall Student Dance Concert
Artistic Director Vladimir Conde Reche presents Apertures – the Fall Student Dance Concert featuring new dance works in flamenco and contemporary. The Student Dance Concerts, presented every fall and spring semester, have always been a cornerstone of the UNM Dance Department, as it offers students a chance to develop their own artistic voice, and present works to an audience, some of them for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to see young fresh voices supported by a team of their peers!
Week #1: October 24 and 25 at 7:30pm, October 26 at 2:00pm
Week #2: October 30 and 31 and November 1 at 7:30pm
Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance
Tickets at unmtickets.com or the UNM Bookstore
Lasya Lahari
In a spellbinding confluence of rhythm, grace, and expressive storytelling, Dr. Neena Prasad takes the stage with a performance that embodies the soul of Mohiniyattam — the classical dance form of Kerala, known for its lyrical beauty and emotive depth. Accompanied by a live ensemble of traditional Indian musicians, her performance is a tribute to the lasya (graceful) aspect of Indian dance, seamlessly blending movement, music, and mood.
Raqs Alba: A Belly Dance Extravaganza!
This annual belly dance showcase features studio instructors, professional troupes, students, and special guests! This enchanting evening of dance will feature Raqs Sharqi and Fusion Belly Dance, with swirling veils, balancing acts, epic drum numbers, and more! Make sure to get there early to shop from local vendors before the show.
Doors open at 6 pm.
Full Price (Adults 13+): $20
Child (Ages 12 & Under): $15
All ticket prices increase by five dollars on day of show.
Aperatures: UNM Fall Student Dance Concert
Artistic Director Vladimir Conde Reche presents Apertures – the Fall Student Dance Concert featuring new dance works in flamenco and contemporary. The Student Dance Concerts, presented every fall and spring semester, have always been a cornerstone of the UNM Dance Department, as it offers students a chance to develop their own artistic voice, and present works to an audience, some of them for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to see young fresh voices supported by a team of their peers!
Week #1: October 24 and 25 at 7:30pm, October 26 at 2:00pm
Week #2: October 30 and 31 and November 1 at 7:30pm
Elizabeth Waters Center for Dance
Tickets at unmtickets.com or the UNM Bookstore
Three Tens & Counting
Keshet Dance Company performs new choreography and previous work reset on Keshet Company dancers! Plus, take a walk down memory lane with a special Costume Fashion Show featuring original costumes through the years!
Three Tens & Counting
Keshet Dance Company performs new choreography and previous work reset on Keshet Company dancers! Plus, take a walk down memory lane with a special Costume Fashion Show featuring original costumes through the years!
Welcome Reception + Open Marley
Mingle with Keshet dancers, collaborators, and alumni while enjoying food and drinks. Then, step onto the studio floor for an Open Marley — our twist on open mic night — where anyone can share (and enjoy) a performance!
Sign up to perform here, for more information visit keshetarts.org.
ADC Open Class: Modern/Contemporary with Vladimir Conde Reche
This class explores the body’s relationship with the floor and space, moving fluidly between grounded and upright sequences. Dancers engage the full body with an awareness of energy distribution to achieve movement fullness and presence in space. Drawing on diverse dance techniques and approaches, the class emphasizes anatomical awareness, functionality, and efficiency as pathways to artistic growth. Through continuous exploration of weight shift, dancers expand their range, dynamics, and texture, cultivating both physical precision and creative expression.
Professor Vladimir Conde Reche, originally from São Paulo, Brazil, is a dancer, choreographer, and educator with a BFA from The Juilliard School and an MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa. He has performed with Cisne Negro Dance Company, Ballet Stagium, and as a guest artist internationally across South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the United States. Trained in ballet and modern techniques (Graham, Limón, Taylor) and having studied Gaga with Ohad Naharin and Batsheva dancers, he integrates classical and contemporary approaches in both performance and teaching. As a choreographer, he collaborates across disciplines to create works spanning ballet, contemporary dance, theater, and musicals, often engaging with current issues, while also expanding his artistic voice through photography and digital media.
La Mezcla: First Saturday Salsa & Bachata Social
First Saturdays, Salsa & Bachata Social brought to you by Ritmo Y Tambor, takes our local collaboration with award winning distillery, Hollow Spirits, into the month of September. 🙌
Bachata Class with Kyle & Sara at 8:30.
Hollow Spirits providing great service and taking care of our Latin dance community every 1st Saturday! Performances by the RYT Ladies Mambo Team and the Energy & Rhythm Ladies Styling Team. The Ritmo Y Tambor crew laying down the ambiance and
DJ Gabriel Goza and DJ Ritmo selecting the vibes you dance to: Salsa - Bachata - Cha Cha - Boogaloo
📅 Saturday, October 4th
🕰️ 8pm - 12am
🎟️ $10 Entry
📍 Hollow Spirits 1324 1st St. NW
🎶 DJ Ritmo
🎶 DJ Gabriel Goza
Ana "Rokafella" Garcia Artist Talk
Join legendary dancer, teacher, and choreographer Ana "Rokafella" Garcia for a free class in old school Hip-Hop technique. New Yorker Rokafella has represented women in Hip-Hip for the last three decades, teaches and judges competitions internationally, and has received multiple awards for her teaching, choreography, and the documentary she directed All The Ladies Say.
The UNM Department of Theatre and Dance is thrilled to have her in residence and to present an artist talk.
The artist talk will also include a screening of All The Ladies Say, the documentary about veteran and upcoming b-girls directed by Rokafella.
Fiesta Flamenca Burqueña
Get ready for Fiesta Flamenca Burqueña, a free outdoor festival in Downtown Albuquerque. This vibrant event showcases legendary Flamenco artists and brings together extraordinary performances under an iconic New Mexican sunset.
Fiesta Flamenca Burqueña features a full evening of world-class Flamenco dance and music, food trucks, beverages, and more! Fiesta Flamenca is headlined by Flamenco dancer, Mercedes de Córdoba, one of Flamenco's most potent and exhilirating dancers today. She is joined by renowned Flamenco musicians also from Spain. Opening the performance will be Flamenco Works youth company, Flamenquitos del Bario, as well as Jesús Muñoz Flamenco, a nationally recognized Flamenco touring company based in Albuquerque. With the support of the City of Albuquerque, Visit Albuquerque, and New Mexico True, Flamenco Works has made this world-class event free for our families because we believe all families should get the opportunity to see Flamenco of this caliber. Food, beverages, and merchandise will be for sale at the concert. Bring your whole family to enjoy! Doors will open at 6:00 PM and performances will begin at 7:00 PM.
Even though the event is free, we ask that all attendees reserve a ticket!
Open Class with Ana "Rokafella" Garcia
Join legendary dancer, teacher, and choreographer Ana "Rokafella" Garcia for a free class in old school Hip-Hop technique. New Yorker Rokafella has represented women in Hip-Hip for the last three decades, teaches and judges competitions internationally, and has received multiple awards for her teaching, choreography, and the documentary she directed All The Ladies Say.
The UNM Department of Theatre and Dance is thrilled to have her in residence and to present open classes to the Albuquerque community.
Please email nescobar2@unm.edu to sign up for classes.
ADC Open Class: Post-modern with Scot Tupper
Class is full
Rudy was among the founders of the Post Modern dance style coming out of the Judson Church Theater in New York in the 1960s. Scot was a Teaching assistant for Rudy in the early 2000's working at Los Angeles High School for the Arts, USC, and with his Rudy Perez Project company in Los Angeles.
This class is a compilation of the warm up and technique sequences Rudy was constantly evolving focusing on strength, precision, and use of space. Class focuses on the shapes we make with our bodies, as well as the shapes we carve through space, and the relationship we have to that space and with each other as we move. Be prepared for floor work as well as standing movement. Class does include a full warm up and cross-the-floor movement. Style and sensibilities are influenced by Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham, both of whom Rudy studied with directly in his youth, paired with the idea of pedestrian movement as performance.
In addition to his work with Rudy Perez, Scot worked with Los Angeles based companies Keshet Chaim, Collage Dance Theater (now Heidi Duckler Dance), B.E. Productions, Masterpiece Dance Theater, Michael Mizerany Dance, Nancy Evans Dance Theater, among others, and taught all ages for Masterpiece Dance Theater ballet school for 10 years.
SwayFest 2025
SwayFest is a 4-day community dance intensive and celebration of all things Studio Sway, offering a wide variety of classes, workshops and experiences for adult dancers of all levels.
La Mezcla: First Saturdays Salsa & Bachata Social
First Saturdays, Salsa & Bachata Social brought to you by Ritmo Y Tambor, takes our local collaboration with award winning distillery, Hollow Spirits, into the month of September. 🙌
Bachata Class with Kyle & Sara at 8:30.
Hollow Spirits providing great service and taking care of our Latin dance community every 1st Saturday! The Ritmo Y Tambor crew laying down the ambiance and DJ Gabriel Goza and DJ Ritmo selecting the vibes you dance to: Salsa - Bachata - Cha Cha - Boogaloo
📅 Saturday, September 6th
🕰️ 8pm - 12am
🎟️ $10 Entry
📍 Hollow Spirits 1324 1st St. NW
🎶 DJ Ritmo
🎶 DJ Gabriel Goza
Salsa Night!
Salsa Night EVERY THURSDAY @ Dave & Buster’s!
💃🏽🔥 Hosted by United We Dance Studios
📍 Dave & Buster’s ~ Albuquerque
📅 Thursday, August 21st | 8:15 PM – 12:00 AM
💃🏾 Ladies FREE until 9 PM | Kids FREE | All Ages Welcome!
Keep the energy going! Join us every Thursday at Dave & Buster’s for Salsa Night, brought to you by United We Dance Studios. It’s your weekly destination for dancing, community, and Latin flavor in a fun, family-friendly space!
🔥 This Week’s Lineup – August 21st 🔥
💃 Salsa Class at 8:15 PM with Marvin Nathan
🎶 Latin beats all night with DJ Ritmo!!
🍹 Full bar + tasty eats from Dave & Buster’s
👨👩👧 All ages welcome — Kids get in FREE!
💃 Ladies FREE until 9 PM
🎟️ $10 cover after 9 PM | 👗 Dress to impress | 🅿️ Free parking
Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned salsero, come solo or with friends and family. Let’s keep the dance floor alive every Thursday night!
UNBOUND: A Performance Ritual
UNBOUND is a performance ritual and community-powered project that works with dance, storytelling, poetry and communal gatherings to uplift the lives, legacies and stories of the artists' Native ancestors who were captured and enslaved during the Spanish colonial period in New Mexico. These ancestors were taken from many different tribes & communities, including Apache, Diné, Kiowa, Ute, Comanche, Pawnee, Hopi and Pueblo. They were given various identifiers: criada, cautiva, coyote, genízaro.
Director Sarah Hogland-Gurulé and collaborating artists Lupita Salazar and Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales are descendants of enslaved indigenous people and have created UNBOUND as a loving offering to their ancestors. They worked intimately with historical research, family stories, platicas with other descendants, generational memory and embodied research to create a visceral and informative experience about a history that is often left out of a contemporary understanding of New Mexico.
There will be a 45 min post-show reception after each performance.
(use code COMMUNITY for a discounted rate)
UNBOUND: A Performance Ritual
UNBOUND is a performance ritual and community-powered project that works with dance, storytelling, poetry and communal gatherings to uplift the lives, legacies and stories of the artists' Native ancestors who were captured and enslaved during the Spanish colonial period in New Mexico. These ancestors were taken from many different tribes & communities, including Apache, Diné, Kiowa, Ute, Comanche, Pawnee, Hopi and Pueblo. They were given various identifiers: criada, cautiva, coyote, genízaro.
Director Sarah Hogland-Gurulé and collaborating artists Lupita Salazar and Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales are descendants of enslaved indigenous people and have created UNBOUND as a loving offering to their ancestors. They worked intimately with historical research, family stories, platicas with other descendants, generational memory and embodied research to create a visceral and informative experience about a history that is often left out of a contemporary understanding of New Mexico.
There will be a 45 min post-show reception after each performance.
(use code COMMUNITY for a discounted rate)
UNBOUND: A Performance Ritual
UNBOUND is a performance ritual and community-powered project that works with dance, storytelling, poetry and communal gatherings to uplift the lives, legacies and stories of the artists' Native ancestors who were captured and enslaved during the Spanish colonial period in New Mexico. These ancestors were taken from many different tribes & communities, including Apache, Diné, Kiowa, Ute, Comanche, Pawnee, Hopi and Pueblo. They were given various identifiers: criada, cautiva, coyote, genízaro.
Director Sarah Hogland-Gurulé and collaborating artists Lupita Salazar and Gabriel Carrion-Gonzales are descendants of enslaved indigenous people and have created UNBOUND as a loving offering to their ancestors. They worked intimately with historical research, family stories, platicas with other descendants, generational memory and embodied research to create a visceral and informative experience about a history that is often left out of a contemporary understanding of New Mexico.
There will be a 45 min post-show reception after each performance.
(use code COMMUNITY for a discounted rate)
2025 Summer Showcase & Silent Auction
Thursday, August 14th · 7:30pm
JUNO · 1501 1st Street NW
All proceeds from the show and silent auction will go toward ABQ Dance Connect, to help us continue to offer free resources, classes, and events to the ABQ dance community. Donations are open for the silent auction, please let us know if you are interested in donating.
Open Class: Site Specific Choreography
Experience the power of place through site-specific dance with Lara Segura in the beautiful sculpture garden of the Albuquerque Museum on Sunday, August 10 from 10 am–12 pm. This free, all-levels class invites movers of all ages and abilities to explore a sensorial approach to choreography that responds to the physical and social characteristics of outdoor space. Presented in partnership with Albuquerque Dance Connect—please dress for movement, bring water, and note that minors must be accompanied by an adult.
Ritmo Y Tambor Dance Workshops - BACHATA Bootcamp 101
Learn to dance BACHATA in 2025!
Absolute beginners, those with limited experience, and returning Bootcampers, join the 6-week bootcamp series to grow your skills, continue your progression, and safely transition to the social dance floor!
- Foundations
- Timing Structure
- Basic Footwork
- Partnerwork Practice
- Turn Fundamentals
- Confidence Building
📅 Thursdays (August 7th- September 11th)
🕰️ 6:00 -7:00
📍 Peace Love Space 10410 Comanche NE, 87111
🎟️$55/6-week series (Bootcamp 101 can be purchased in combo with Bachata 102 for Beginner Track Package, which includes 3 Wednesday specialty classes)
www.ritmoytambor.com | ritmoytambornm@gmail.com
Ritmo Y Tambor Dance Workshops - SALSA Bootcamp 101
Learn to dance Salsa in 2025!
Absolute beginners, those with limited experience, and returning Bootcampers, join the 6-week, Level 1 series, to begin your Salsa journey to the social dance floor or to continue your progression! Train in Salsa On2, NY Style, and dance at a different level.
- Fundamentals
- Timing
- Basic Footwork
- Turns
- Partnerwork Practice
- Repetitions for Growth
- Confidence Building
📅 Tuesdays (August 5th - September 9th)
🕰️ 6:30-7:45
📍 Peace Love Space 10410 Comanche NE, 87111
🎟️ $70/6-week series only (Bootcamp 101 can be combined with Salsa 102 for the Beginner Track Package, which includes 3 Wednesday Specialty Classes)
www.ritmoytambor.com | ritmoytambornm@gmail.com
La Mezcla - First Saturdays Salsa & Bachata Social
First Saturdays, Salsa & Bachata Social brought to you by Ritmo Y Tambor, takes our local collaboration with award winning distillery, Hollow Spirits, into the month of August. 🙌
Bachata Class with Kyle & Sara at 8:30.
Hollow Spirits providing great service and taking care of our Latin dance community every 1st Saturday! The Ritmo Y Tambor crew laying down the ambiance and DJ Gabriel Goza and DJ Ritmo selecting the ritmos you dance to: Salsa - Bachata - Cha Cha - Boogaloo
📅 Saturday, August 2nd
🕰️ 8pm - 12am
🎟️ $10 Entry
📍 Hollow Spirits 1324 1st St. NW
Full Bar | 21+
🎶 DJ Ritmo
🎶 DJ Gabriel Goza
www.ritmoytambor.com | ritmoytambornm@gmail.com
Zeitgeist Dance Theatre: Lineage
Join Santa Fe’s own Zeitgeist Dance Theatre — one of New Mexico’s most compelling companies — for an electrifying evening of world-class contemporary dance. Zeitgeist Dance Theatre is proudly joined for the evening by the New Century Dance Project Contemporary Ensemble. Five original works by acclaimed choreographers Francisco Gella, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Noelle Keyser, Joshua Whitehead, and Rhaine Marquardt come to life with over 70 exceptional dancers from around the world commanding the stage. The evening’s centerpiece honors Santa Fe’s 20th year as a UNESCO Creative City, paying tribute to New Mexico’s rich heritage through the story and work of contemporary artist Emily Trujillo and her Chimayo weaving roots.
ZDT’s concert is presented as part of the New Century Dance Project: New Mexico’s Festival of Performance & Choreography held on July 26 – August 3 in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. This annual festival from Artistic Director Francisco Gella unites dance artists across diverse genres, offering a unique laboratory for artistic development. Every summer, nearly 100 pre-professional, emerging, and professional artists and educators descend on New Mexico for concerts, classes, workshops, and activities focused on performance and choreography, guided by world-renowned teaching artists.
For more information on Zeitgeist Dance Theatre please check out their website: zeitgeistdancetheatre.org and for more information on New Century Dance Project go to newcenturydanceproject.org.
Approximate run time: 2 hours
$29, $39 & $49 w/ $10 discount for students and seniors
i/o Presented by the New Mexico Dance Hackathon
Tickets are free and can be reserved here: New Mexico Dance Hackathon: i/o
i/o is the culmination of the 2025 New Mexico Dance Hackathon, bringing together artists working in movement and technology to intersect and explore new possibilities for interdisciplinary performance. Featuring work by Sarah Bennett-Davidson, Stewart Skylar Copeland, Elyse Fahey, Madrone Matysiak, Erin Meadors, and Eden Radfarr, along with collaborators Blayne Greiner, Kevin Paul, Michael Pino, and Amy Traylor, as well as professional dancers, i/o presents new works that were developed during this year’s Hackathon.
By connecting dance artists, technologists, designers, and sound artists, i/o seeks to unlock innovative approaches to performance-making, encourage risk-taking, and inspire participants and audiences to imagine new ways that bodies and technologies can interact. The works presented reflect months of collaborative research, experimentation, and development, showcasing the ways movement and tech-based art can inform and transform each other.
The 2025 Dance Hackathon and i/o are sponsored by UNM ARTSLab. This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Open Class: Ballet
Join Davis Hobdy for an inspiring intermediate 18yr and up adult ballet class. Davis focuses on finding the many ways he can help adults enjoy the physical activity and exercise of dance. He challenges students to recognize different ways of relating language and interpretation in ballet while helping students feel positive and productive both mentally and physically.
About J. Davis Hobdy
Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member J. Davis Hobdy earned an MA in English from SNHU, an MA in Dance Technique Pedagogy from Middlesex University, and a BA in Performing Arts from St. Mary’s College of California’s Liberal Education for Arts Professionals-NYC campus. Professionally he has danced for Ballet Austin, Ballet Dallas, Texas National Dance Theatre, the Dance Consortium, Dancers Unlimited Repertory Company, and PIECES. Hobdy has appeared internationally in Amsterdam, Athens, Kyiv, Paris, Piraeus, Prague, The Republic of San Marino, and throughout the USA.
A retired ballet dancer, he has taught and lectured throughout the USA and Europe. His teaching credits include Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Dallas Theater Center, choreographic residencies at The Hockaday School, and the National High School Dance Festivals in 2012 and 2014. Hobdy’s “Dance as Fitness for the Mature Adult” was published by the CID-UNESCO, International Dance Council. Hobdy is a member of the CID-UNESCO, National Dance Education Organization, Maryland Dance Education Association, and the National Indian Education Association. He currently teaches ballet at Dance Theatre Southwest and is adjunct faculty in Language and Letters at Northern New Mexico College
Sing to me, Muse
Experience the timeless stories of ancient Greece brought to life through poetic narrative and mesmerizing dance in Sing to Me, Muse.
Immerse yourself in the magic of Sing to Me, Muse, where timeless stories of ancient Greece unfold through captivating narrative and breathtaking dance, weaving together history, mythology, poetry, and artistry in an unforgettable performance.
About BreakingEven
BreakingEven is an Albuquerque-based, all-level adult dance troupe made up of lifelong friends who are passionate about movement, creativity, and connectivity.
Sing to me, Muse
Experience the timeless stories of ancient Greece brought to life through poetic narrative and mesmerizing dance in Sing to Me, Muse.
Immerse yourself in the magic of Sing to Me, Muse, where timeless stories of ancient Greece unfold through captivating narrative and breathtaking dance, weaving together history, mythology, poetry, and artistry in an unforgettable performance.
About BreakingEven
BreakingEven is an Albuquerque-based, all-level adult dance troupe made up of lifelong friends who are passionate about movement, creativity, and connectivity.
Sing to Me, Muse
Experience the timeless stories of ancient Greece brought to life through poetic narrative and mesmerizing dance in Sing to Me, Muse.
Immerse yourself in the magic of Sing to Me, Muse, where timeless stories of ancient Greece unfold through captivating narrative and breathtaking dance, weaving together history, mythology, poetry, and artistry in an unforgettable performance.
About BreakingEven
BreakingEven is an Albuquerque-based, all-level adult dance troupe made up of lifelong friends who are passionate about movement, creativity, and connectivity.
Flamenco Festival
Produced and presented by the National Institute of Flamenco, Festival Flamenco Alburquerque offers a unique opportunity to witness world-class performances, learn from renowned artists, and connect with a vibrant community of flamenco students, fans, and aficionados.
Get ready to be captivated as we come together to celebrate the rich heritage and timeless allure of flamenco in the Land of Enchantment.
Open class: Contemporary Jazz
Free class with Elyse Fahey – registration opens June 1st!
After a thorough warm up, we will start with simple jazz footwork patterns and then move into more complex across-the-floor progressions. This is a fun, rigorous class focused on musicality, precision, and direction changes.
Bachata Bootcamp 101
Ritmo Y Tambor Workshop
Learn to dance Bachata in 2025!
Absolute beginners, those with limited experience, and returning Bootcampers, join the 6-week bootcamp series to grow your skills, continue your progression, and safely transition to the social dance floor!
Foundations
Timing Structure
Basic Footwork
Partnerwork Practice
Turn Fundamentals
Confidence Building
Thursdays (June 5th- July 10th)
$55/6-week series (can be purchased in combo with Bachata 102 for Beginner Track Package)
Salsa Bootcamp 101
Ritmo Y Tambor Workshop
Learn to dance Salsa in 2025!
Absolute beginners, those with limited experience, and returning Bootcampers, join the 6-week, Level 1 series, to begin your Salsa journey to the social dance floor or to continue your progression! Train in Salsa On2, NY Style, and dance at a different level.
Fundamentals
Timing
Basic Footwork
Turns
Partnerwork Practice
Repetitions for Growth
Confidence Building
Tuesdays (June 3rd - July 8th)
$70/6-week series (Bootcamp 101 can be combined with Salsa 102 for the Beginner Track Package)