OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

$20 general admission

$15 ACW members

$10 students

The Arts Club Dance Committee presents:

MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet

MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet was founded in 2010 to catalyze the creation and presentation of innovative, accessible, and thoughtful contemporary ballet.

MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet, in choreography by Diana Movius, is delighted to be performing excerpts of the following two ballets.

“Rite of Spring, Crash of Fall” is based on the financial crisis of 2008 and commissioned by the Kennedy Center’s  2018  Local Dance Commissioning Project. The piece combines the iconic Rite of Spring score and storyline with anniversary of the financial collapse to probe themes of power. “Rite of Spring, Crash of Fall” is a dance-theater piece underpinned by contemporary ballet technique with sprinklings of pedestrian and everyday props drawn from offices.  The full work will premiere at the Kennedy Center October 13-14 on the 10-year anniversary of the financial collapse. 

 Called “resonant” by the Washington Post, GLACIER: A Climate Ballet is a critically-acclaimed multimedia ballet performance that turns climate change into a live emotional experience. Fresh from a tour to the Global Climate Action Summit hosted by the government of California, GLACIER unveils a world affected by climate change by placing a changing Arctic environment in front of the audience. The dancers ripple, crack and plunge,He in a poignant elegy to ice.

 A reception to meet and talk with the artists will follow the performance.

Since its inception, MOVEIUS has performed in a variety of venues in Maryland, DC, Virginia, and North Carolina, including Dance Place, Atlas Perorming Arts Center,  the GALA Theatre at Tivoli Square, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Arts Club of Washington, Montgomery College, the former American Dance Institute, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and the Booth Playhouse (in Charlotte, North Carolina). The company maintains a performance season at our home venue, the Dance Loft on 14.  Dance Loft on 14 is an innovative space 8000 square foot arts center that founder Diana Movius opened 2015 to provide rehearsal, educational, and performance space to area performing artists.   Strongly rooted in Ward 4 of Washington, DC, MOVEIUS runs Dance Loft on 14 in a way that supports DC's growing dance scene and the ongoing arts-based economic development in Ward 4.

 MOVEIUS Director Diana Movius was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina and has lived in Washington, DC since 2007. She trained with New York City Ballet legend Patricia McBride at Charlotte Ballet, and spent summers at North Carolina School of the Arts, North Carolina Dance Theater, and Ballet Chicago.  She has danced principal roles and worked with the Balanchine Trust in Balanchine’s Who Cares?, The Four Temperaments, and Stars and Stripes, and performed in Robert Moses’ elegant quintet, “These Women” with Cardinal Ballet in Stanford, California.  As a choreographer, she was recently awarded the 2018 Kennedy Center Local Dance Commissioning Project for Rite of Spring, Crash of Fall. Her works have gained momentum and visibility locally and nationally. Her critically-acclaimed GLACIER: A Climate Change Ballet is being performed at the Global Climate Summit in San Francisco in September 2018. Locally, her works have been presented by the Kennedy Center, Dance Place, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, Atlas Performing Arts Center, Sidney Harman Hall, Jack Guidone Theater, Woolley Mammoth Theater, and at the facility she founded, Dance Loft on 14. Having lived abroad in Peru and worked in Mexico and Indonesia, she especially enjoys taking ballet classes in foreign countries.