Springdances 2026

Springdances 2026: We Also Bloom presents world premiere works that explore what it means to grow, persist, and flourish — even in the face of erasure, displacement, and silence. The dances in this program honor the enduring human impulse to take up space, put down roots, and rise. This evening features new works by guest artist Karlies Kelley, and dance faculty Daniel Burkholder, Tiffany Kadani, Dan Schuchart, and Christal Wagner.

The works spanning this evening move between the personal and the political, the historical and the deeply felt. Choreographers draw on stories of marginalized communities celebrating their right to exist, of neighborhoods razed and rebuilt through resistance, of generational trauma transformed in the body, and of individual journeys shaped by what we choose to carry — and what we leave behind. Across every work, a common pulse beats: the insistence on blooming, even in unlikely soil.