Dancing Legacy
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  • Home
  • About
    • Overview
    • Visionaries
    • Network
    • Ensembles >
      • Dancing Legacy Ensemble
      • Fusionworks Youth Ensemble
      • DAPpers Rep
    • Partners
  • Repertory Etudes
    • About RepEtudes
    • Current Collection
    • RepEtude Portals
    • RepEtude History
  • Programs
    • Weekly Classes
    • Workshops
    • Pedagogy Preservation Project
    • Residencies
    • Fusionworks Dance Center
    • Calendar of Events
  • Gatherings
    • Mini-Fest >
      • MiniFest 2025: INHERITANCE
      • Mini-Fest 2024: PATHWAYS
    • Legacy Chats
    • Calendar of Events
  • Membership
    • About Membership
    • Member Sign-in
  • Contact

Overview

Group dancers
Student Performance
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​​Dancing Legacy shares the transformative power of dance through impactful experiences that reach across boundaries. Our programming is built upon the philosophy of our “founding mothers” Carolyn Adams and Julie Adams Strandberg, both of whom have played instrumental roles in the field of American dance since the 1960s.

Professional Performance
​One of the Adams sisters' guiding principles is honoring the importance of legacy, viewing dance as a living heritage that should be readily available for anyone to connect and engage with over time. We pass on great dance to new generations of audiences and performers, an approach that is less common in dance than in other art forms such as music and theater. Can you imagine a musician or music lover never having access to Duke Ellington, Bach, Aretha Franklin, or Johnny Cash? An actor or theater fan being denied Shakespeare, Lorraine Hansberry, or Rodgers and Hammerstein? This lack is often the case in dance, which is why Dancing Legacy’s approach is so crucial and unique. We use dance to make active connections to the past while exploring how it relates to and informs our present and future.

Professional Performance Solo
Another of the Adams sisters’ core beliefs is that the culture of the United States of America is largely unrecognized for its richness and depth. American dance holds compelling stories of the country's complexity. Dancing Legacy's activities, centered around Repertory Etudes, offer opportunities for ongoing discovery and insight into the American experience for those inside and outside of the nation.

Photo credits: Erin X. Smithers (header), Lucia Lopez (body)