UPCOMING PERFORMANCES - SEASON 2020-2021
Bagley’s Masquerade Nutcracker
December 12, 2020
Beauty for Ashes Dance Contemporary School of Dance premieres their holiday Bagley’s Masquerade Nutcracker family celebration Bagley’s Christmas. The show was choreographed by David Riddick, the founder and Executive/ Artistic Director of Beauty for Ashes Contemporary School of Dance. The performance will be held at Mary T. Christian Auditorium at Thomas Nelson on December 12, 2020 at 7 pm. Based in Louisiana, a Cajun-creole family Christmas tradition celebration takes a wild turn and creates an unpredictable fun-filled gathering. An Uncle Simone invites all the Dubois and Bagley clan to his home every year to bring in the holidays right.
Limericks of Our Souls
February 18-20 , 2021
Limerick of Our Souls, which is in collaboration between choreographers, David Riddick and Marshall Swiney. Together they created a mixed-bag dance theater assortment to include love stories, poems, and speeches. ONE is a mixed media piece dealing with love, loss, forgiveness, and conflict resolution told through the enlightening, meditative music of Alice Coltrane. The King Project is prayers of humanity labored in the continuum of race. The two collaborators explored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountain Top” speech, and “Letters from Birmingham Jail” through an improvisational structured dance theater laced in visual projections. Limericks blends compassion, empathy and respect for humanity. Limericks is a 90-minuteproduction.
Traveling Home THE BEATEN FOOT PATH OF THE SOUL
March 27, 2021
This is an evening of the dance theater that explores the human conditions through the
spoken words of David F. Riddick. It deals with the beaten foot path and external complexities that parallel to the confrontation from within the soul to a place of peace. It expresses thetransparencies of emotions one faces in life but rises to learn the truth. Thismovement explores and indulges in a fuse of African, Jazz, Contemporary Dance and Ballet.
Riddick Dance
Mary T. Christian
Bagley’s Masquerade Nutcracker
December 12, 2020
7:00-9:00pm
The American Theatre
Traveling Home
March 27, 2021
8:00-9:00 pm
Limericks of Our Souls
Piedmont Performance
February 18-20, 2021