AMERICAN DANCE GUILD FESTIVAL

CITIGROUP THEATER
OCT. 21-25

The American Dance Guild (ADG) will commemorate its 70th anniversary with Celebrating the Past. Inspiring the Future. The festival will bring together more than 30 works representing a wide range of aesthetic, cultural and generational perspectives in contemporary dance.

A special focus of this year’s program is its intergenerational exchange, with invited guest companies Ballet Tech, LaGuardia Performing Arts School/Dance Department, Limón2, Murray Louis Foundation and Graham 2 joining artists from across generations.

The Festival will pay tribute to four influential artists whose lives and work left an enduring mark on American dance: Nai-Ni Chen, Paul Sanasardo, Carla Maxwell and Janet Collins. The festival will also present two special awards: a Lifetime Achievement Award to choreographer, dancer, educator and writer Pat Catterson, and the American Dance Guild Award for Dance Scholarship in Journalism and Dance History to dance historian, critic, writer and filmmaker Sally Sommer.