View photographer Kevin Gliner's slide shows of the company in rehearsal and performance: "Well-Suited" Click
here. UpComing performances The 4th Annual Ultimate Book & Dance Affair It’s our strange but wildly popular fundraiser at Café Dance. Pick up some summer reading from our new and used book sale on the sidewalk. Grab a light snack in the lobby. Then have a seat in the studio and watch choreographers and dancers from Austin and beyond as they perform just a few feet away. Lo-tech, hi-quality and supreme entertainment. This is a friendly, kid-friendly and barefoot event. The Book & Dance Affair is open house style, so come and go as you please. It’s also free, but it IS a fundraiser, so donations are accepted and greatly appreciated. Book Sale on the sidewalk from 5:30-7:30
Participating Choreographers at Press Time Armstrong/Bergeron Dance Company Jessica Lindberg-Cox
Michelle Nance
Lisa Nicks
Mandie Pitre
Leila Pourbabee
Mysti Jace Pride
Leah Smiley-Tubbs
Matt Williams
Past performances KDH Dance Company Celebrates TEN Years! TEN: 10th Anniversary Gala Concert. PROGRAM B: “Blurred is my new favorite dance!” “I loved Slammed. It was so beautiful.” “Tim’s music for Spin is incredible.” “The dancers are amazing: virtuosic, committed and inspiring.” PROGRAM
A: -
SOLD OUT!!! - "An intriguing time travel through the company and director Kathy Dunn Hamrick's shifting aesthetics." "Saturday's entire cast displayed the ability that makes KDH performances so consistently lovely and loving." ~Clare Croft July 12, 2008 June
12-14, 2008
"YES: visually smart, playful yet still very rigorous and precise in dance technique and set to delightful original music, in this case a charming new piece by Austin composer Tim Kerr." "MOUNTAINS, SHIPS AND LIVES was an intriguing dance
expression of the agitation and anxiety that roils under contemporary
life." March 28-29, 2008 February 2008 Using the barres, poles, windows, walls, floors and doorways, choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick creates environments inhabited by barnacles, barbies, bar backs, bar tabs, barcaloungers and more. November 10, 2007 Costume inspired dances with colorful, whimsical paper costumes designed by Renee Nunez and Marc Nunez
"What a great/fabulous/wonderful event!" "The dancers were electric!" "Austin in lucky to have you!" November 1, 2007 October 26-27, 2007 September 23, 2007 The
2nd Annual
Book & Dance
Affair The Loop “Something heavenly happens every time one
of Kathy Dunn Hamrick’s dancers unfolds her arms and lifts
her chest to the ceiling. The KDH Dance Company, performing Sunday
at the One World Theatre, collects beautiful dancers, who unfurl
their limbs with elegance and breath in the premiere of Hamrick’s ‘The
Loop.’” “
I applaud their stamina. I loved the intimacy of the space, to
see the dancers sweat, chests heaving to catch enough air before
rejoining the spinning spiel suggestive of dandelion parachutes
blowing round to rites of spring. Successful duets…so enchanted
me I could not take notes or break the spell to force recall. All
I can say is ‘thank you.’” Flash Dance: 30 Dances
in 60 Minutes - Seven sold-out performances “ a fabulous hour-long dance” - The Austin-American Statesman “ bursts of illumination that captivate us and leave us wishing they
lasted longer”
The Body Speaks TAHPERD CACHE, Our Annual Fall Fundraiser 1700 Rabb: The elegant home of Tamara Carlisle, designed
by Chris Lewis Architects and nestled among two acres above Barton
Springs. Contemporary Dance Concert An encore presentation of "Half Passing," with a video/set by Kakii Keenan and original music by Chad Raines and The Elastic Wasteband. Plus works by other contemporary choreographers! Weekend of Contemporary Dance We're opening the show with "The Co-Conspirator." Join us for this fun dance turned inside-out! Plus, get a glimpse of other Texas-based contemporary dance companies. July 8-9, 2006 KDH Dance Company offers three premieres at McCullough Theater this summer in “And Then There Were Twelve.” Set to music by the Elastic Wasteband, half of the company members pass their time passing each other and getting passed in Kathy Dunn Hamrick’s new work, “Half Passing.” Company member and guest choreographer Lisa Nicks questions self-sufficiency, the super human and the supernatural in her new dance, “Recognizing the Angel on My Shoulder,” set to music by the Austin band Mundi. And David Steadman premieres a dance film called “The Five Challenges.” Also on the program is “I’m Coming Back for My Wings, “Carolyn Pavlik’s poignant trio of struggle and re-birth.
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