Dorrance Dance

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Dorrance Dance
Company typeDance troupe
Founded2010/2011, United States
Founder Michelle Dorrance
Headquarters
United States
Website dorrancedance.com

Dorrance Dance was founded by dancer Michelle Dorrance in late 2010/early 2011.[ citation needed ]

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Its debut performance was on a shared evening with Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards at Danspace Project, for which the company received a Bessie Award for "blasting open our notions about tap." Dorrance has since choreographed three evening-length works for the company: SOUNDspace (2012), The Blues Project (2013, a collaboration with Derick Grant, Toshi Reagon and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards), and ETM: The Initial Approach (2014, a collaboration with Nicholas Van Young). [1]

Their 2024 production of The Nutcracker received favorable reviews. [2] [3] [4] [5]

White House Controversy

In December 2023 Dorrance Dance performed a staging of The Nutcracker inside the Biden Administration White House. [6] [7] The performance was controversial, [8] but The New York Times commented that "it was shocking to see something as innocuous as The Nutcracker stir up such outrage." [9]

References

  1. ↑ Prichard, Laura Stanfield (August 3, 2024). "Dorrance Dance at Vail". The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
  2. ↑ Dinaberg, Leslie (December 13, 2024). "Dance Review | A Swinging Start to the Holiday Season: Dorrance Dance's 'The Nutcracker Suite' Brings Visions of Sugar Rum-Pa-Pa-Pum to Santa Barbara". Santa Barbara Independent .
  3. ↑ Libowitz, Steven (December 3, 2024). "Dorrance Turns 'Cracker' into a Downtown Dance Rave". Montecito Journal.
  4. ↑ Martellotti, Patricia (December 6, 2024). "More than 1,000 kids experienced Dorrance Dance's 'The Nutcracker Suite' at Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara". KEYT .
  5. ↑ Brice, Anne (December 13, 2024). "The Sugar Rum Fairy? A freewheeling, jazzy reimagination of 'The Nutcracker'". UC Berkeley News.
  6. ↑ Terry, Eva (December 15, 2023). "Video: Watch as tap dancers take over the White House in the 2023 Christmas video". Deseret News– via Yahoo News.
  7. ↑ O'Kane, Caitlin (December 14, 2023). "Jill Biden releases White House Christmas video featuring tap dancers performing "The Nutcracker". CBS News.
  8. ↑ Nava, Victor (December 14, 2023). "NYC dance company Jill Biden tapped for 'Hunter Games' Christmas video pushes 'defund the police,' prison abolition, discredited 'antiracism' activists". New York Post .
  9. ↑ Kourlas, Gia (December 15, 2023). "Who's Afraid of a Tap Dance 'Nutcracker'? Some conservative media took offense at a joy-filled holiday video shot at the White House. They're missing the point". The New York Times .


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