From bold innovations of modern dance to the rich tapestry of cultural folklore and the timeless elegance of classical ballet, TPAC’s 2024-25 International Dance Series brings the rich diversity and beauty of dance direct to you from around the world in a series featuring the vibrant rhythms, dramatic stories, and unrivaled artistry of 4 world-renowned dance companies:
Martha Graham Dance Company
Ballet Folklórico de México
Paul Taylor Dance Company and
The Joffrey Ballet
Explore the Broad Spectrum of Movement and Magic from 4 World-Renowned Dance Companies
Add-on the World Premiere of New Dialect's 21 Yeses
Not included in season package. Additional purchase required.
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Martha Graham Dance Company
January 31 - February 1
The oldest dance company in the United States and the oldest integrated dance company, the MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY brings three unique works to Nashville for its 100th Anniversary. Works performed in this engagement were inspired by a variety of sources, including the American frontier with Appalachian Spring, a nod to American folk music with We the People, and techno club scenes with CAVE. The Company continues to foster Graham’s spirit of ingenuity and remains a leader by catalyzing new works with commissions that bring fresh perspectives to dance classics.
We the People - Tennessee Premiere
CAVE - Tennessee Premiere
Appalachian Spring
Ballet Folklórico de México
March 7-8
Founded by dancer and choreographer Amalia Hernández, BALLET FOLKLÓRICO DE MÉXICO brings together the music, dance, and costume of Mexican folklore from pre-Colombian civilizations to the modern era. After devoting her time to researching the folklore, music, costumes, and dance of the states that comprise Mexico as a country, and uniquely brought them to life creating performances that are a true portrait of Mexico’s beauty, diversity and rich history through music and dance. The Ballet is permanently in residence at the iconic Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and continues to perform extensively across Mexico and abroad.
Paul Taylor Dance Company
May 30-31
One of the world’s foremost dance companies, the PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY is recognized for innovating and transforming modern dance. Under the artistic direction of Michael Novak and drawing from a history of multidisciplinary collaborations, passionate expression, and thrilling athleticism, the Company is known for a vast repertory that features work from the Founder’s canon, new works created by some of today’s most engaging choreographers and established and important historical dances from the 20th and 21st centuries. Dedicated to sharing modern dance with the broadest possible audience, the Company tours annually, both domestically and internationally.
Piazzolla Caldera - Nashville Premiere
Company B - Nashville Premiere
Esplanade - 50th Anniversary
The Joffrey Ballet
June 28-29
Internationally renowned, Chicago-based ballet company, THE JOFFREY BALLET presents a unique repertoire that encompasses masterpieces of the past and cutting-edge works of today, including their Nashville Premiere of Golden Hour. Bask in the glow of this radiant mixed repertoire program of warmth and splendor, featuring Dani Rowe's Princess and the Pea, a modern re-envisioning of the classic fairy tale with music by Jim Stephenson; Cathy Marston's Heimat, a glorious symphonic poem transformed to dance and composed by Richard Wagner; and Nicolas Blanc's Under the Trees' Voices, set to Ezio Bosso's Symphony No. 2.
Princess and the Pea - Tennessee Premiere
Heimat - Tennessee Premiere
Under the Trees' Voices - Tennessee Premiere
Add-on the World Premiere of New Dialect's 21 Yeses
Not included in season package. Additional purchase required.
New Dialect's 21 Yeses
November 22-24
21 YESES is a dance of light and void, a theatrical form of sensory perception that soothes and mesmerizes as it awakens audiences into a luminous hyperdream. Taking on the tech-aesthetic of a space odyssey, New Dialect plays with hi-grade electricity, the presence of absence, and the geometries of choreography to encounter light as a sentient form of movement and darkness itself as an action, a vast stillness.
TPAC’s co-presentation of New Dialect’s 21 YESES is funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and Tennessee Arts Commission.
Header: Cathy Marston’s Heimat. Christine Rocas and Dylan Gutierrez. Photo by Todd Rosenberg.
Vignettes: Leslie Andrea Williams in Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring. Photo by Melissa Sherwood. Ballet Folklórico de México. Christina Lynch Markham, Eran Bugge, Michelle Fleet and Parisa Khobdeh in Piazzolla Caldera. Photo bv Paul B. Goode. Stefan Goncalvez of The Joffrey Ballet’s Under the Tree’s Voices. Photo by Cheryl Mann. New Dialect’s 21 Yeses. Shabaz Ujima with Lenin Fernandez and Madison Brott. Credit New Dialect.
