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JDC dancers perform Scoop (2024) in Misako Ballet’s Ballet Bouquet at the Jim Rouse Theatre, in Columbia, MD. Learn more about this event and purchase tickets here >>> Ballet Bouquet
Janusphere presents Adaptations and The Program at the HCC Dance Showcase! These works were recently premiered at Ballet on the Beach festival, Assateague Island, MD and MEN IN DANCE Festival, Seattle, WA. Find tickets and more information about the HCC Dance Showcase by clicking on the image below.
Janusphere presents Adaptations and The Program at the HCC Dance Showcase! These works were recently premiered at Ballet on the Beach festival, Assateague Island, MD and MEN IN DANCE Festival, Seattle, WA. Find tickets and more information about the HCC Dance Showcase by clicking on the image below.
JDC director Darion Smith’s new work, The Program, has been selected to premiere at the MEN IN DANCE Festival in Seattle, WA on October 4-6. The Program is an intergenerational dance theater work that explores the physical/emotional aesthetics of maleness, the male figure, while addressing societal forces and landscapes that have shaped generations of men.
More information on this event coming soon!
JDC director Darion Smith premieres new dance works, Adaptation and Scoop, inspired by the coastal bays of Maryland. The Ballet on the Beach Dance Festival will take place on Assateague Island. More information about the festival including free ticket reservations can be found here.
July 6, 6:30pm Oregon Contemporary
8371 N. Interstate Ave
Portland, OR 97217
6:30 pm: Gallery 1, Oregon Contemporary
Carla Bengtson in collaboration with composer Juliet Palmer, choreographer Darion Smith, and perfumer Dannielle Sergent.
Other Nations: scent-sharing ritual and performance
Other Nations enacts the voicing, sensing, signifying life worlds of other creatures while shining a light on our own animal-related modes of being. Biennial artist Carla Bengtson’s floor graphic serves as a score for a scent-sharing ritual followed by a dance performance created by choreographer Darion Smith and composer Juliet Palmer.
Check out excerpts from the Other Nations:video 2024 below.
Choreographer Darion Smith and composer Juliet Palmer invite ground squirrel, coyote and rattlesnake to flow through the human body as movement and vocalization. Moving then sounding, the singers responded to three choreographic sketches by Darion Smith. Unaware of the animals they were channeling, their voices betray an intuitive, embodied connection to the more-than-human. Dancing between traffic, grass, concrete, and water, Smith underscores the illusory separation between human and more-than-human beings, nature and culture.
Janusphere performs BACHTANZ at the HCC Dance Showcase on November 10th and 11th at 7pm.
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Janusphere Dance Company (JDC) brings two works to the Koresh Artist Showcase in Philadelphia, PA. The JDC dancers will perform By Chance (2009) and BACHTANZ (premiere), from director and resident choreographer, Darion Smith. Performances will be held at the David Cooper Black Box Theater on September 30th at 6pm and 8pm and October 1st at 6pm. The David Cooper Black Box Theater is located at 2002 Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia, PA 19103.
Find out more and get tickets for the Koresh Artist Showcase.
JDC performs By Chance (2009) at the Salem Arts Festival in the Old Town Hall in Salem, MA.
Photo by Rachel Neville
JDC director, Darion Smith’s work Enclosure, created for the Howard Community College Dance Company, will finally have its premiere Thursday, March 30th at 7pm. Additional performances will follow on Friday, March 31st at 2pm & 7pm, and Saturday, April 1st at 7pm. All performances will be held in the Studio Theatre located in the Horowitz Performing Arts Center. Enclosure was originally scheduled to premiere in March 2020. The COVID 19 Pandemic forced the postponement of the work until now. Enclosure explores the experience of observation by observing the lives and interactions of others who are bound by their fishbowl existence. The work features original music composed by University of Oregon, Dance Department Head, Christian Cherry.
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Janusphere Dance Company performs 34,448,930 and counting... at Baltimore Theatre Project for Peabody Dance! Festival.
Photo by Paul Wegner
Janusphere will premiere Codes and Letters at the Howard Community College Dance Showcase on Friday and Saturday, November 18 & 19 at 7PM.
Conceived and choreographed by Darion Smith, Codes and Letters is set in a dystopian world, where the aftermath of previous generations has impacted those in the future. The ritual dance, which is also a prayer, creates a winding path of gestural movement patterns and emotional states. As it passes through each phase, it gets closer to reaching its destination.
Janusphere will premiere Codes and Letters at the Howard Community College Dance Showcase on Friday and Saturday, November 18 & 19 at 7PM.
Conceived and choreographed by Darion Smith, Codes and Letters is set in a dystopian world, where the aftermath of previous generations has impacted those in the future. The ritual dance, which is also a prayer, creates a winding path of gestural movement patterns and emotional states. As it passes through each phase, it gets closer to reaching its destination.
Janusphere returns to the Newport Dance Festival hosted by Island Moving Company in Newport, Ri. Unfurl (2021), is a contemporary work by Darion Smith. Click here to find more information about the Newport Dance Festival.
Janusphere returns to the Newport Dance Festival hosted by Island Moving Company in Newport, Ri. Unfurl (2021), is a contemporary work by Darion Smith. Click here to find more information about the Newport Dance Festival.
Janusphere Dance Company returns to the stage in the premiere performance of, Unfurl, a multimedia work being presented at the 2021 HCC Dance Showcase. JDC director and HCC Assistant Professor of Dance Darion Smith, collaborated with Visual Artist and HCC Assistant Professor of Audio and Video Production and Technologies, Patrick Pagano to create a stunning and immersive dance experience. Performances will be held at the Howard Community College, Horowitz Center Smith Theatre and live streamed. Follow the link below for more information and tickets.
Misako Ballet debuts En Bach by Darion Smith at the Jim Rouse Theatre.
5460 Trumpeter Road
Columbia, MD 21044
With the theme, “POWER,” The Howard Community College Dance Showcase 2019 features dance work choreographed by faculty and students/
The Dance Festival include students, alumni, faculty as well as guest artists.
Howard Community College
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
With the theme, “POWER,” The Howard Community College Dance Showcase 2019 features dance work choreographed by faculty and students/
The Dance Festival include students, alumni, faculty as well as guest artists.
Howard Community College
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21044
Darion Smith is presented with the Mark Ryder Original Choreography Award at the Howard County Council of the Arts on Friday, Sept. 13
WHERE: Maryland Youth Ballet
926 Ellsworth Dr, Silver Spring, MD 20910
WHO: Looking for 3 dancers - selection will depend on the dancer's abilities, technically and artistically.
DETAILS:
JDC is looking for a diverse cast dancers who are technically skilled, artistically mature, and open to playful explorations when rehearsing. Dancers should be able to work with props, the voice, partnering, and the floor. In the audition dancers will be asked to repeat choreography as well as improvise and partner.
A total of 30 hours of rehearsals will be spread over September, October, and November. The performances will be November 14 and 15.
Paid compensation for rehearsals and performance.
REGISTER:
To register for the audition, please submit directly or send an email januspheremail[at]gmail[dot]com (Subject: JDC Audition) with the following information:
Contact info
Bio/resume
Headshot
General availability between September - November 15
If you have a short video of you dancing, please forward a link.
There is no cost to attend the audition.
Janusphere Dance Company Artistic Director Darion Smith will be in creative residency in Eugene, OR, working on the ongoing collaboration Lizard Project/Every Word Was Once an Animal.
An intimate showing of the project will take place August 16th. The work will be developed further over the next year with more showings and interactive exhibits.
Darion Smith will participate in a week long residency at CDT, teaching and setting a work on the students in their Summer Intensive Program.
See the premiere of Darion Smith’s Leaving Now for Later, April 5th - April 7th at the Smith Theatre, located in the Horowitz Center, on the Howard Community College campus, in Columbia, Maryland.
See Janusphere Dance Company live in Seattle at On the Boards Studio 26 Saturday, October 15, 2016.
JDC premieres Object at the 2016 NW NEW WORKS FESTIVAL
SIXTEEN ORIGINAL WORKS ON TWO STAGES OVER TWO WEEKENDS
Now in its 33rd year, the NW New Works Festival presents experimental and in-progress work from Northwest artists.
The Festival provides artists with rehearsal time, an honorarium, documentation, and the opportunity to present their work on the stages of OtB. The NW New Works Festival has helped launch careers for many local performers. Artists such as Zoe Scofield, Trimpin, Paul Budraitis, Hand2Mouth, Waxie Moon, Lori Goldston, Kyle Loven, Degenerate Art Ensemble, and Sarah Rudinoff have all participated in the Festival.
WEEK 2 | 17 - 19
MAINSTAGE
Darion Smith/Janusphere Dance Company (Eugene)
Megan Murphy
David Harvey
Veronica Lee-Baik/ The Three Yells
STUDIO
Peter Donnelly
Shontina Vernon
Gary Hill
Kyle Loven
Janusphere Evolves - West Coast Premiere Performances at Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
Fri., Oct 18, 2013 7:00 PM
Janusphere Evolves - West Coast Premiere Performances at Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, CA
Janusphere Evolution Premiere Performances at PAM 2013, IATI Theater, New York, NY
Heart on a Dirty Platform Premiere Performances at 2012 PAM Festival IATI Theater, New York, NY
