5X5 CT Contemporary Dance Festival to be held Saturday March 27

For eighteen years, the 5X5 CT Contemporary Dance Festival, named for its focus on five professional and five collegiate ensembles, has been performed on the Hoffman stage of the Bruyette Athenaeum in the Autorino Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in West Hartford, CT.

This year the ensembles have risen to and met the challenge of COVID and will be bringing their performance to the community through a prerecorded virtual performance followed by a live virtual talk back beginning on March 27 at 7 PM. For more information and tickets, visit: https://tinyurl.com/usj5x5

The 5x5 Contemporary Dance Festival brings together choreographers, performers, educators and students to study, perform and create new work. The Festival encourages an exploration of a wide spectrum of dance/movement disciplines. Artists, students and audiences share their creation and inspiration through

The Festival was created in 2003 as a response to a need expressed by greater Hartford dancers for opportunities to perform more sustained works. The 5X5 Contemporary Dance Festival provides performance opportunities for works from company repertoires, works in progress, or works prepared exclusively for this showcase.

In its 19th year, the Festival continues to celebrate the many forms and types of dance, cultural and ethnic diversity in dance, dance that pushes traditional definitions and approaches, and dance that is inclusive in opportunities for artists and audiences.

Featuring

Pilobolus

Ballet Theatre Company

Immix Dance Project

MB Dance Theater

Moxie Dance Company

New England Ballet Theatre

River Valley Dance Project

Sonia Plumb & Richard Pye

Collegiate Performers:

Central Connecticut State University: Dancentral

Eastern Connecticut State University

University of Hartford: Hartt Dance Division

University of Saint Joseph