Jane Franklin Dance: Farewell Athenaeum

Jane Franklin Dance and Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association at the Athenaeum Present Farewell Athenaeum

Featuring: Jane Franklin Dance:
Philip Baraoidan, Michala Conroy, Kelsey Rohr, Amy Scaringe, Kevin White with Simone Nasry, Jameel Salahuddin, Kate Walker.
Reunion performers: Reunion performers: Cait McAfee, Sandra Atkinson, Stefanie Quinones Bass, Emily Crews, Andie deVaulx, Katie Tuebner Dick, Wayles Stapor Haynes, Brianne Barrow Little,
Nellie Rainwater, Roxann Morgan Rowley, Erika Surma

Choreography: Ryan Carlough, Michala Conroy, Emily Crews,  Jane Franklin, Kelsey Rohr, Kevin White

Location:
The Athenaeum, home to Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association
201 Prince Street, Alexandria VA 22314

Performance Date/Time: Thursday May 29, 2025 @ 7:00 pm

Tickets: $23 thru May 27 (a ticket purchase supports JFD & NVFAA)
$25 starting May 28, $28 at the door

Jane Franklin Dance: Farewell Athenaeum
Jane Franklin Dance presents a farewell performance at the Athenaeum, Alexandria. Celebrate 28 years of artistic creativity with works by Jane Franklin, a Forty+ Project premier by Emily Crews, dances in response to visual art by Elsabe Johnson Dixon and Sharon Fishel, and a reunion piece featuring former JFD company members.  The evening concludes with a celebratory reception.

• Experience the real, personal journeys of the people and ecosystems in our midst in Barrier (2017) excerpts, by Jane Franklin.  Stories by a fisherman hobbyist, a bird watcher, a Park Naturalist, and a home gardener are layered with movement and sound that translate across familiar observation and memory.

• Ryan Carlough’s Together is a new work for 4 dancers to The Wilhelm Scream by English musician James Blake.

• Forty+ Project, an ongoing program of Jane Franklin Dance, celebrates the collective creativity of people past the age of 40.  For this performance JFD is happy to present movement choreographed by Emily Crews, Dance and Events Program Director at Glen Echo Park.

• Silkworm is a premier work that highlights the artistic process and materials of the exhibiting artists, Elsabe Dixon and Sharon Fishel.  The artist’s statements flow with music and sound to guide a design by Jane Franklin with movement choreographed by Michala Conroy, Kelsey Rohr, and Kevin White.