Spring Festival of Dance

SPRING FESTIVAL OF DANCE produced by Patricia Seto WeissThe Lindemann Performing Arts Center 144 Angell Street, Providence RI 02906 This year’s Spring Festival of Dance will be held for the very first time in the Main Hall of the Lindemann Performing Arts Center on May 1st and May 3rd. The Festival will feature two distinct programs.May 1, 8PM | Program Afeaturing theMARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANYSold Out:Waitlist ProceduresFor sold-out performances, a waitlist will open one hour before each performance. Available tickets will be distributed to the waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis, no earlier than 15 minutes before the beginning of each performance. Individuals must be present to be added to the waitlist. We will seat as many people as possible while adhering to fire safety and capacity laws. We are excited to host the Martha Graham Dance Company, currently celebrating their centenary, in Program A (May 1 at 8pm). The company will present Martha Graham’s iconic Appalachian Spring, a work of optimism and determination conceived during the darkest days of World War II. The score, by Aaron Copland, will be performed by musicians from the Brown University Orchestra under the direction of Mark Seto. The evening will conclude with Jamar Roberts’s We the People to music by Rhiannon Giddens.All performances will include Lamentation Variations, an evocative work inspired by Martha Graham’s iconic 1930 solo, Lamentation. This ongoing variations project, originally created in remembrance of 9/11, continues to explore grief, resilience, and expression through movement. Brown University students will present three new variations, created under the project’s signature creative conditions, choreographed by Laila Franklin, Heidi Henderson, and Patricia Seto-Weiss.  May 3, 2PM & 8PM |Program BTickets on Sale Now: Students $7 Adults $15 65+ $12Program B will showcase student performers in a diverse lineup choreographed by guest artists, TAPS faculty, and Brown student Billie Miro Breskin ’25. The program opens with a new work by Anya Cloud and Makisig Akin conceived with the Lindemann Performing Arts Center in mind. Paul Singh’s acclaimed Just Your Ambition, premiered at Brown in 2023, will be one of the highlights on the bill. TAPS faculty Ali Kenner Brodsky presents a new work for students in the Intermediate Dance course. Patricia Seto-Weiss again joins forces with intermedia artist John Crawford (University of California, Irvine) for a ballet piece immersed in projection, with music performed by members of the Brown University Orchestra.All performances will include Lamentation Variations, an evocative work inspired by Martha Graham’s iconic 1930 solo, Lamentation. This ongoing variations project, originally created in remembrance of 9/11, continues to explore grief, resilience, and expression through movement. Brown University students will present three new variations, created under the project’s signature creative conditions, choreographed by Laila Franklin, Heidi Henderson, and Patricia Seto-Weiss.The Festival of Dance is generously supported by the Julie Adams Strandberg Fund for Dance at Brown and the Sue E. Perlmutter Fund for Dance.In collaboration with The Brown Arts Institute & The Music Department