Charlotte Dance Festival

Overview

Under the City Sounds
Baran Dance is a Contemporary Dance company based in Charlotte, NC, founded by Audrey Ipapo Baran in 2012. We believe that dance should be inspiring and accessible, not just for avid dance patrons, but for anyone seeking a visually awing experience.  We create dances to make you feel, think, possibly cry, and maybe even laugh.  Baran Dance seamlessly blends physicality and artistry, creating work that is available and appealing for all audiences, regardless of cultural, educational, or socioeconomic background. We move to move YOU!
Dance Under the City Sounds is a multi-disciplinary collision of contemporary dance, live music, and visual art.  Baran Dance, musical duoBless These Sounds Under The City, and photographer, Sara Woodmansee are uniting to bring you an full-sensory experience of innovative choreography, risk-taking movement, beautiful original music, and stunning imagery. Presented by some of the most progressive and exciting artists in Charlotte, this show is not to be missed!  http://www.barandance.com/

Deux Femmes, One Show
Calinnce Dance and Caroline Calouche & Co. team up to bring you a diverse and high-energy show.  Caliince Dance with Artistic Director Pauline Lagas choreographies aim to illuminate the human condition in contemporary social, political, psychological, and sexual contexts. The dances assimilate a manifestation from the mind to the body like a scream, whether the dance is exploring optimism or pessimism, the dreaming or waking life, or taking or receiving.  CC&Co. is Charlotte’s only aerial and contemporary dance company.  They are known for their versatility in the air and on the ground. 
Websites: www.carolinecalouche.org and www.caliincedance.org

Dance Charlotte
Want variety?  Dance Charlotte features 8 choreographers and companies from across the U.S. and the Charlotte premiere of a new work by Maria Caruso for the Charlotte Dance Repertory Ensemble.  http://charlottedancefestival.org/dancecharlotte/   Artists include:
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company - New York City, NY
Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble - Philadelphia, PA
Johnnie Mercer - Richmond, VA
Lindsey Bramham Howie, Greensboro, NC
Jackie O'Toole - Charlotte, NC
Jacqueline White - Charlotte, NC
KDNY – Charlotte, NC & NYC, NY
MashUp Contemporary Dance Company - Los Angeles, CA
The Kearns Dance Project - Elon, NC
Maria Caruso / CDF Repertory Ensemble - Pittsburgh/Charlotte