View photographer Kevin Gliner's slide shows of the company in rehearsal and performance:

"Well-Suited" Click here.
"The BarreTenders" Click here.
" Mountains, Ships and Lives" Click here.

UpComing performances

The 4th Annual Ultimate Book & Dance Affair
Saturday, July 18th
Café Dance 3307-B Hancock Drive
(corner of Hancock and Balcones)

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
Dance Performances from 5:40-7:00

Participating Choreographers at Press Time
AG
ACC Dance Student and Choreographer combines modern, classical ballet and breakdance!

Armstrong/Bergeron Dance Company
3 Texas A&M University Dance Faculty perform a beautiful trio (Chris Bergeron used to perform with KDH)

Jessica Lindberg-Cox
Noted expert on the work of historic dance icon, Loie Fuller, Jessica will present a classic Fuller dance!

Michelle Nance
Teaches at TX State. Saw her trio in May and had to see it again!

Lisa Nicks
KDH Dancer and choreographer has set a new work on people from Kathy’s Beginning Modern Dance class. Wahoo!

Mandie Pitre
Mandie is combining modern dance and improvisation with break dance. Can’t wait to see what she’s up to!

Leila Pourbabee
Dance Major from the University of Oklahoma visiting Texas this summer will present a solo to an original score.

Mysti Jace Pride
This choreographer is busy showing work in Ten Minutes Max, FronteraFest and Big Range. Let’s see what she has for the Book & Dance Affair!

Leah Smiley-Tubbs
Always charismatic and full of energy and passion, Leah will perform a solo.

Matt Williams
A command performance of his Michael Jackson piece seen at Dance Carousel .

Past performances

KDH Dance Company Celebrates TEN Years!

TEN: 10th Anniversary Gala Concert.
June 18-20, 2009, 8pm
AustinVentures Studio Theater, 501 W. 3rd

“a company I love enough to drive 6 hours round trip to see a 2 hour performance”
~ Neil Ellis Orts
To read Neil Orts’ blog on the concert, click here.

PROGRAM B:
February 7, 14, 21, 2009, 6pm and 8pm

“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!!! -
November 1, 8, 15, 2008, 6pm and 8pm

"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
  Austin American-Statesman

July 12, 2008
3rd Annual Ultimate Dance & Book Affair
3p - 5:30p
Café Dance
3307-B Hancock Drive
Austin, TX

Sample the diversity of contemporary dance as local choreographers show their work in a close-up, informal setting. During brief intermissions, browse our new and used books and CDs in this casual, come and go as you please, cultural afternoon at Café Dance. This is a great event for friends, families and kids. The Book & Dance Event is free, though donations are greatly appreciated. All proceeds benefit KDH Dance Company.

June 12-14, 2008
Mountains, Ships and Lives
Austin Ventures Studio Theater
501 W. 3rd Street (Corner of 3rd and San Antonio)
Austin, TX

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Photos By:
Renee Nunez (left) & Dale Rempert (right two)

"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."
- Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin, Austin American-Statesman

March 28-29, 2008
Three's Company
Ft. Worth, TX
"impressive technique and wit" Fort Worth Star-Telegram

February 2008
The BarreTenders: Where Every Pun is Intended
   SOLD OUT

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
" Well-Suited"
KDH Dance Company's Annual Fall Fundraiser
6:30-9:00pm

Costume inspired dances with colorful, whimsical paper costumes designed by Renee Nunez and Marc Nunez
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Photos By: Brett Buchanan

"What a great/fabulous/wonderful event!"
"The dancers were electric!"
"Austin in lucky to have you!"

November 1, 2007
American Heart Association Benefit
Guest Performance, Excerpt from “Say, WHAT!?”
Austin Design Center, Penn Field, Austin, TX

October 26-27, 2007
“ Say, WHAT?!”
Master Classes and Performances at Del Mar College
Master Class Friday, October 26th at Del Mar College
Performances:
Friday and Saturday, October 26th and 27th at 7:30pm
Richardson Performance Hall, Del Mar College East Campus
Corpus Christi, TX

September 23, 2007
Austin Museum Day
Dance at the Ney with KDH Dance Company
All ages are encouraged to participate in our lively, thirty-minute creative dance sessions inspired by the sculptures of Elisabet Ney.

The 2nd Annual Book & Dance Affair
Saturday, July 7th
Café Dance, 3307-B Hancock Drive

The Loop
June 10th, 2007
One World Theatre, 7701 Bee Caves Road
Austin, TX

“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.’”
~Clare Croft

“ 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.’”
~Richard Cutler

Flash Dance: 30 Dances in 60 Minutes
February 2007

- Seven sold-out performances
- Two packed open rehearsals
- Rave reviews from both The Austin Chronicle and The Austin-American Statesman

“ a fabulous hour-long dance” - The Austin-American Statesman

“ bursts of illumination that captivate us and leave us wishing they lasted longer”
- The Austin Chronicle

Photos By: Brett Buchanan

The Body Speaks
An Informal Showing by teens participating in New Art Kinnections
Friday, December 8th, 7pm

Café Dance, 3307-B Hancock Drive

TAHPERD
Conference Guest Artist: Performances and Master Classes
December 1, 2006
Ft. Worth, TX

CACHE, Our Annual Fall Fundraiser
Become a not-so-hidden treasure!
November 11, 2006

6:30pm - 9:00pm
CACHE: Something hidden; To hide.
This is sure to be our most unusual, mysterious and fantastical fundraiser yet.

1700 Rabb: The elegant home of Tamara Carlisle, designed by Chris Lewis Architects and nestled among two acres above Barton Springs.
Directions: Take Barton Springs to Robert E. Lee. Follow Robert E. Lee (the Umlauf Sculpture Garden will be on your left) to the 3-way stop and then turn right on Rabb Road.

Contemporary Dance Concert
Sunday, November 5th
7:30pm
Rudder Auditorium, Texas A&M
College Station, TX

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
September 22-23, 2006

Miller Outdoor Theatre
Houston, Texas

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
And Then There Were Twelve

8:00pm Saturday & 5pm Sunday
McCullough Theatre (venue changed from State Theater due to flooding)
Between 23rd & East 25th street on Robert Dedman Drive
Austin, TX

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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