ADF Presents: Footprints: Ephrat Asherie, Vincent E. Thomas, & Keith Thompson

Presented in collaboration with Turnbridge Equities • ADF Commissioned World Premiere

Program: New works by Ephrat Asherie, Vincent E. Thomas, & Keith Thompson

Running time: 60–75 minutes, with potential intermission

Tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office.

The Footprints program bridges ADF’s performance and education series, featuring four ADF-commissioned world premieres by renowned choreographers and performed by ADF students. This year’s choreographers are Ephrat Asherie, Stephan Koplowitz, Vincent E. Thomas, and Keith A. Thompson. Asherie is a New York City-based choreographer, performer, b-girl, and a “Bessie” award winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance. She creates dynamic, rhythm-driven work for the dancers of her company, Ephrat Asherie Dance. Koplowitz is a multidisciplinary artist whose 40-year career spans site-specific and concert dance-theater, interactive media installations, film, and photography. His large-scale site works transform public spaces and invite communities to experience places in new ways. Thomas is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher and the Artistic Director of VTDance. His work blends contemporary dance, improvisation, text, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with artists across mediums. Thompson is a choreographer, director, and multifaceted contemporary dance artist. He serves as Assistant Director of Dance and Associate Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University.

Saturday, July 11 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, July 12 at 3 pm

Don’t miss a FREE site-specific performance by Stephan Koplowitz as a part of this year’s Footprints program at Mutual Tower!

Saturday, July 11 at 1 pm

Saturday, July 11 at 3 pm

Sunday, July 12 at 11 am

Sunday, July 12 at 1 pm

Photo Credit: Mohamed Sadek, Whitney Browne, Lynn Lane, Lauren Castellana

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