CityDance Ensemble
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CityDance Ensemble is "Washington's preeminent modern dance company (the Washington Times)." Comprised of four divisions, CityDance is based in Washington, D.C. and North Bethesda, Maryland. CityDance is a contemporary repertory dance company, an outreach education organization teaching or performing for over 25,000 students annually, directs the CityDance Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, and the CityDance Center at Mt. Vernon Square in downtown Washington, DC and has established the pioneering dance on camera division, CityDance FilmWORKS.
CityDance Ensemble, the dance company, performs dances by choreographers from around the world. The company has a signature series, the Legacy Series, which recontructs great and significant works of modern dance from the first 100 years of modern's history. Among current works in the repertory is "Dust Bowl Ballads," by the late Sophie Maslow. "Dust Bowl Ballads" is set to the music of Woody Guthrie and was made by Maslow to reflect upon the American Experience during the 1930s dust bowl which swept through many parts of the American midwest, causing the dust bowl migration made famous by John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath."
CityDance is in partnership with many of the Washington areas leading arts organizations, including the Music Center at Strathmore, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Shakespeare Theater Company and the Levine School of Music. These partnerships expand the opportunities for dance in the Washington area, and for collaborations between music and dance.
