RUNWAY DANCE FESTIVAL
Radium Runway
Sunday, May 5
2pm-5pm
NOTE: SATURDAYS’ PERFORMANCES ARE CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN.
Free & Family Friendly
2151 Ferry Point — adjacent to Seaplane Lagoon Promenade — in Alameda Point
For hardcore dance fans, curious adventurers, and casual drifters, Runway Dance Festival presents two days of dance, music, and stories, celebrating the vitality and creativity of Bay Area dance. Discover the works of leading Bay Area companies, Tara Pilbrow Dance (Alameda), Embodiment Project (San Francisco), and Post:ballet (Berkeley). And experience performances by youth companies from four of the Bay Area’s leading dance schools: Alameda Ballet Academy/Alameda Civic Ballet, Berkeley Ballet Theater, Roco Dance, and Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble/Shawl-Anderson Dance Center.
While you're there, dine from the Locos Only Fusion Food Truck and grab drinks and snacks from the Radium Bar. You'll be delighted with impromptu performances, fun activities, and the timeless magic of Hula Hoops.
Runway Dance Festival is a part of Bay Area Dance Week, an inclusive celebration of movement and dance.
SATURDAY CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN
We regret to inform you that due to inclement weather, we won't be dancing in the rain this Saturday, May 4th. All performances for that day have been cancelled.
However, the Sunday, May 5th performance is 100% going ahead as planned! If you wish to attend the Sunday show, there's no need to change your RSVP status – simply come and enjoy an exciting, rain-free performances.
We look forward to seeing you on Sunday for an unforgettable dance experience!
SPONSORED BY:
SCHEDULE
SUNDAY, MAY 5
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Welcome - Curator Tara Pilbrow & Most-Excellent-MC Jeff Raz
Berkeley Ballet Theater
Alameda Ballet Academy
Embodiment Project
INTERMEDLEY *
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble
Alameda Ballet Academy
Post:ballet
INTERMEDLEY *
4:30pm - 5:00pm
Alameda Ballet Academy
Tara Pilbrow Dance
*WHAT is an “Intermedley?”
Let’s call it an “animated intermission!”
Expect an array of Hula Hoops, juggling, music, and improvised interludes in and around the space!
TARA PILBROW DANCE
Modern Dance
Tara Pilbrow Dance invests in the capacity of the moving body to open us to a fuller lived experience; the power of dance to build empathy, awareness and tolerance; to connect communities and combat discrimination.
Based in Alameda, California, Tara Pilbrow Dance produces live performance and film, and curates community events with the intention of weaving dance into the fabric of her community.
Tara Pilbrow Dance is a fiscally sponsored project of West End Arts District.
BREATHE
First created as a site specific work in 2020, Breathe was a visceral reaction to the pandemic and the political upheavals of that time. Now four years later we revisit the work to focus on how the body and the breath can ground us through challenges, and the many heartfelt, and sometimes ridiculous, ways we try to support each other.
Choreography: Tara Pilbrow with the Dancers
Music: Ben Juodvalkis
Performed by: Colin Epstein, Victoria Kamala Fifield, Ava Shannon, and Hannah Westbrook
Breathe was created with support from the West End Arts District, The City of Alameda, and Rhythmix Cultural Works.
Photo Credit: Power Quevedo
Hip Hop
Embodiment Project (EP) is a Bay Area Performing Arts Organization that began as a street dance theater company. We honor and express Black Social Dances and street dance forms, and draw on other dance traditions including modern dance and use choreo-poetry, documentary theater, live song, and video art to articulate and hold stories of liberation. EP has staged and toured 10 original evening-length multidisciplinary dance productions.
Our Purpose is to uplift the ancestral and primordial power of dance as an act of resistance, collective healing, and social transformation. We achieve our purpose in four ways:
Performance for the concert stage, public spaces, and film;
Dance and Culture Education for youth and adults;
Community Arts partnerships with social service and movement building organizations;
Organizational culture and governance that reflect the social transformation we seek.
The presentation of Embodiment was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
EMBODIMENT PROJECT
BELLY OF THE WHALE (excerpts)
This is a multidisciplinary street dance theatre production featuring live music, choreo poetry, and documentary theatre. Inspired by the myth of “Jonah and the Whale” and Valerie Kaur’s concept of “Revolutionary Love,” their shared assertions that love, grace, and compassion are due to all, including outsiders and those with whom we most disagree. Belly radically challenges the cultural norms of bypass and cancellation that are entrenched in today’s movement spaces.
Founding Artistic Director: Nicole Klaymoon
Collaborating Director/Dramaturg: Sarah Crowell and Nakachi Clark-Kasimu
Choreography: Nicole Klaymoon and Rama Mahesh Hall in collaboration with company
Music Credits: “Circlesong Six” by Bobby Mcferrin; “Native Puppy Love” (Javier Estrada Remix) by A Tribe Called Red / Pre Continental Colonization Trap - EP; “Prayer for Rain” by Black Motion, Caiiro, and Tabia; “Head” by prince; “Fick Berlin” by Persian Empire; “Testimony” by Sweet Honey and the Rock, sung by Odette Bradbury
Performers: Anastasia Ryzhova, Clarissa Dayas, Francis Anthony Cailles, Francis Aquino, Jenelle Gearlan, Leah Worthington, Mindy Ng, Rama Mahesh Hall
Photo Credit: Natalia Perez
POST:BALLET
Contemporary Ballet
Post:ballet continues to nurture creativity, cultivate plasticity, and ask the question of “what’s next” with ballet in the 21st century. Post:ballet’s collaborators are passionate about taking risks, pursuing curiosity, and creating new works that connect us with one another and with ourselves.
MAGMA
Magma is inspired by the Greek myth of Cassandra, who was able to foretell the future but was cursed to have no one believe her visions. Told through an ominous, cinematic lens, Magma is a tragically intriguing, emotionally raw performance produced by Post:ballet and choreographed by Resident Choreographer Moscelyne ParkeHarrison.
Choreography: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Music: dj.ari.b.
Performed by: Babatunji and Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
ALAMEDA BALLET ACADEMY/
ALAMEDA CIVIC BALLET
Ballet and Contemporary Dance
The Alameda Ballet Academy/Alameda Civic Ballet is committed to delivering high-quality classical dance education to our community. They nurture artistry, self-expression, grace, and musicality while fostering a passion for the art of dance.
El Lago
Waltz of the Hours from Coppélia
Quartet from La Bayadère
Drummer Boy Solo from Graduation Ball
Show Credits: Coming Soon!
Photo Credit: Natalia Perez
BERKELEY BALLET THEATER
Contemporary Ballet
Berkeley Ballet Theater is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Bay Area dancers of all backgrounds and skill levels with a safe space to ignite curiosity, integrate creativity and physicality, and cultivate a passion for movement. BBT's Studio Company invites Youth Division dancers in Levels 7, 8, and 9 to share their love of dance with the community through performances in BBT's annual programming as well as collaborations with organizations such as Berkeley Symphony, BAMPFA, and San Francisco Girls Chorus.
Nice Try
Choreography: Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Photo Credit: Natalia Perez
Modern Dance
BodyLanguage (Mill Valley) is Roco Dance’s select modern dance company, a unique conservatory-style program specializing in postmodern/release technique and partnering, training most high school dancers don’t receive until they enter college dance programs. The company has had the opportunity to collaborate with prominent Bay Area choreographers and present work at WorldWideWomen Festival, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Bay Area High School Dance Festival, Homestead Valley Music Festival, Dance Hack Day, Cali & CO Dance, and sjDANCEco ChoreoProject—for which it has received two Audience Choice Awards. Its director and alumna of the program, Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş, is dedicated to exposing the company dancers to professional environments throughout the Bay Area via performances, workshops, and community engagement in the dance field.
ROCO DANCE
Paper-Boats for my Friends
Choreographer: Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
Music: Beirut and Compiled Audio by the Dancers
Performed by: Tess Belger, Lili Cusick, Victoria Nikfar, Jillian Penrod, Veronica Mennucci
Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble/Shawl-Anderson Dance Center
Modern Dance
Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble/Shawl-Anderson Dance Center builds and supports a vital and inclusive community for movers of all ages and styles. Founded in 1958, SADC provides dance education, institutional support for artists, a performance and rehearsal venue, and partnerships with other community-based organizations. The Shawl-Anderson Youth Ensemble is a pre-professional modern dance program for ages 14-18.
Riverstone
Choreography: Lily Gee
Music: “O” by ML Buch, “Can You Hear My Heart Leave“ by ML Buch, “Dream” by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and “I’m Every Sparkly Woman” by Ana Roxanne
Performed by: Elsa Boardman, Julia Brimmer, Marley Costa McDowell, Meilin Jokela, Sophia Phillips, Chloe Rappaport Crowther, Kaiya Rodriguez, and Jane Rudenko
Dance… with a Purpose
“Radium Runway is a foundational step towards the creation of the Radium Performing Arts Center and I wanted to curate a program that would forefront the purpose of Radium; to nourish an arts ecosystem that spurs creative growth and discovery.” — Tara Pilbrow
Tara Pilbrow, VP of the Board of Radium Presents, and local dancer and choreographer has spearheaded the artistic vision for Runway Dance Festival. Embodiment Project, Post:Ballet, and Tara Pilbrow Dance are organizations that are deeply invested in their local communities, focusing not only on producing engaging work, but also on ways to root their work in their community and invite people to engage in a multitude of ways with the primordial power of dance.