ADF is pleased to host free informal showings of dance pieces in-progress in our Scripps Studio. Masking is at the discretion of the artist. Space is limited and registration is required.
This event will give Big Red Dance Project the opportunity to share with you some excerpts from two new dances. You will also get to meet seven original members of the group and six new dancers that joined the company during the pandemic.
Gerri Houlihan studied at The Juilliard School with Antony Tudor and members of the Martha Graham and Jose Limon dance companies. She performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, the Paul Sanasardo Dance Company, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. From 1991 to 1999 she directed her own company, Houlihan and Dancers, based in Miami, FL. During that time, she was on the faculty of the New World School of the Arts.
Ms. Houlihan serves on the Advisory Board for the American Dance Festival. She has been on the faculty of ADF from 1981 to 1983 and from 1987 to the present. As an international representative for ADF, she has participated in 17 international linkage programs in such countries as Korea, China, Mongolia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Estonia, Poland, and Russia. She is the recipient of ADF’s Balasaraswati/Joy Anne Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She was Co-Dean and then Dean of the ADF School from 2010 to 2015 and received her MFA from the Hollins/ADF MFA program. She recently retired from Florida State University, where she was the Pearl S. Tyner Distinguished Professor in Teaching and is now Professor Emerita. Currently, she teaches at the ADF studios in Durham and is the Artistic Director of the Big Red Dance Project.
Dancers:
Antonia Beh, Rebecca Bliss, Madeline Burgess, Jo Carpenter, Beth Desmond, Andrea Didisheim, Kaity Granda, Susan Hartley, Sue Hill, Davida Reid, Beth Seaton, Stacey Shumake & April Strickland
Mark your calendar:
Sunday, March 26, 2023
4:00 pm–5:30pm
721 Broad Street, Durham, NC
Photo by Ben McKeown Photography 