26th Annual Arizona Dance Festival 2025

Desert Dance Theatre will present the 26th Annual Arizona Dance Festival 2025 at Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) Studio on September 18-20, 2025 at Thursday-Saturday at 7:00pm-10:00pm. On Friday, September 19th at 6:00pm-6:30pm, special interactive performances will occur in the TCA East Breezeway. Featured groups include: Reconnect to Africa (Congolese Dance) and Step’s Junk Funk (Interdisciplinary Dance and Percussion). This portion of the evening is FREE to the PUBLIC. The Arizona Dance Festival will feature over 40 different dance artists and companies, showcasing an eclectic variety of choreography and dance performances from around the state of Arizona and out of state. This unique setting will give audiences a taste of what is happening in Arizona's dance scene. It is a perfect platform for dance companies to get exposure, promote their work, and to connect with others in the dance community and the general public. Each evening performance will showcase different dance artists including emerging artists as well as professional companies from all genres and styles of dance. A post-performance “Q & A” will be facilitated by the Arizona Dance Coalition directly after the show. The “Q & A” will allow the audience to engage in lively conversation with the artistic directors and choreographers for insights in the creation of their dance works. “This project is partially funded by a City of Tempe - Community Arts Grant.” “This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, an agency of the State of Arizona.” Featured Dance Artists and Companies: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 - Line-up (Alphabetical Order) ABCD Bollywood Connect-Dance & Arts Foundation (Chandler, AZ) - Semi-classical Bharatanatyam Fusion Anandha Ray / Renee Davis / Absoluta (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) - Modern Erika Alexxandrya and Maddie Coury (Chandler/Mesa, AZ) - Contemporary Desert Dance Theatre/Step’s Junk Funk (Tempe/Mesa, AZ) - Interdisciplinary Modern & Percussion HAG Dance Company (Queen Creek, AZ) - Contemporary Human Nature Dance Theatre (Flagstaff, AZ) - Modern Jazz Spectrum Dance Company (Lake Forest, CA) - Classical Jaz NicoleOlson|MovementChaos (Phoenix, AZ) - Modern Sanskaar Nritya Dance Academy (Chandler, AZ) - Bharatanatyam from India Sedona Dance Project (Sedona, AZ) - Modern Scottsdale Community College Dance Program (Scottsdale, AZ) - Contemporary Shane O'Hara * Solo Dance (Williamsburg, VA) - Modern Sharqia Dance Theater (Phoenix, AZ) - Middle Eastern Wight Noise Dance Company (Peoria, AZ) - Modern FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 - Line-up (Alphabetical Order) AnthroArts Collective (Phoenix, AZ) - Contemporary Archana Alagiri (Chandler, AZ) - Bharatanatyam from India Astarte Belly Dance Troupe (Gilbert, AZ) - Belly Dance Bodies Contemporary Company (Mesa, AZ) - Contemporary Chaos Theory Dance (Tucson, AZ) - Modern Desert Dance Theatre (Tempe, AZ) - Modern Grace Crain and Koby Slavin - Collaboration - Modern Dance & Bass Clarinet Hoorvash Dance Company (Paradise Valley, AZ) - Classical and Modern Persian Jenefer Miller /J.A.M. And Company (Phoenix, AZ) - Tap Dance Lenora Noire (Phoenix, AZ) - Belly Dance Ollin Yoliztli Dance Academy (Phoenix, AZ) - Mexican Folklorico Osiris Dance Ensemble (Waddell, AZ) - Belly Dance Paradise Valley Community College Dance Program (Phoenix, AZ) - Modern Shahrzad Mazoury, Raha Yaghoubi, Navid Mohammadpour (Mesa, AZ) - Iranian Dance & Music Shanaleigh Mejia / Reconnecting to Africa (Tempe, AZ) - African/Congolese Step’s Junk Funk (Mesa, AZ) - Interdisciplinary Modern & Percussion SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 - Line-up (Alphabetical Order) Alexa King (Chandler, AZ) - Fusion Belly Dance AlignDance Theatre (Scottsdale, AZ) - Fusion - Jazz Dance with Classical Piano Caitlin Rose & Company (Tempe, AZ) - Classical Jazz CaZo Dance Theatre (Mesa, AZ) - Modern Chaos Theory Dance (Tucson, AZ) - Modern ClasscalFusionDance (Peoria, AZ) - Contemporary Desert Dance Theatre (Tempe, AZ) - Modern Dimensions Dance Alliance (Glendale, AZ) - Contemporary 520 Dance Company (Tucson, AZ) - Contemporary Hoorvash Dance Company (Paradise Valley, AZ) - Classical and Modern Persian KDC Performing Arts (Tempe, AZ) - Fusion of Bharatanatyam and Kathak MAC & Company (Chandler, AZ) - Aerial, Modern Movement Source Dance Company (Phoenix, AZ) - Modern Nevada Repertory Dance Theater (Las Vegas, NV) - Modern Pooja Raghunath (Tempe, AZ) - Kuchipudi from India Shahrazad Dance Company (Phoenix, AZ) - Belly Dance Sonali Chatterjee and Sudha Tonduru (Phoenix, AZ) - Fusion of Odissi and Bharatnatyam Valkyrie Yao (New York, NY) - Multidisciplinary INFO: http://www.desertdancetheatre.org/.

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