Keshet Dance Company and Center for the Arts: Movement for Mercy

A contemporary dance performance examining & re-imagining US juvenile justice systems co-created by collaborating artists inside and outside of prison walls. Currently incarcerated dancers and choreographers utilize the Keshet artists on the outside as “movement ambassadors,” bringing their voice and vision to audiences on the outside, locally and nationally. This iteration features work by student collaborators at the John Paul Taylor Center in Las Cruces, one of two remaining post-adjudication facilities in New Mexico, and is created in partnership with the Arts for Healing and Justice Network and Project Knucklehead.

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Keshet Dance Company and Center for the Arts: Movement for Mercy

A contemporary dance performance examining & re-imagining US juvenile justice systems co-created by collaborating artists inside and outside of prison walls. Currently incarcerated dancers and choreographers utilize the Keshet artists on the outside as “movement ambassadors,” bringing their voice and vision to audiences on the outside, locally and nationally. This iteration features work by student collaborators at the John Paul Taylor Center in Las Cruces, one of two remaining post-adjudication facilities in New Mexico, and is created in partnership with the Arts for Healing and Justice Network and Project Knucklehead.

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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

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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

Learn More

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

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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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

More information & tickets (free)

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.

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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.

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.