Rivers Merge Dance Festival

The Rivers Merge Dance Festival on September 25 and 26, 2015 celebrates the rising level of dance in the Lehigh Valley and the 40th anniversary of the LVAIC Dance Consortium. As part of the festival, a site-specific work by Muhlenberg dance lecturer Jessica Warchal-King called (in)visible veins: Rivers Merge will be presented at Riverside/Scott Park (where the Delaware and Lehigh rivers converge) at 6 p.m. each evening, prior to the mainstage show. The Williams Center for the Arts concert at 8 p.m. showcases the work of 9 professional Lehigh Valley-based choreographers, with a wide range of style, idiom, and perspective.

Rivers Merge Dance Festival
*Shuttle buses will be available from the Williams Center for the Arts to Scott Park and back from 5:30 – 8:15 p.m.*

Friday, Sept. 25
6 p.m. - Site-specific dance at Riverside/Scott Park in downtown Easton
8 p.m. - Williams Center for the Arts concert

Saturday, Sept. 26
6 p.m. - Site-specific dance Riverside/Scott Park in downtown Easton
8 p.m. - Williams Center for the Arts concert
9:30 p.m.- Reception honoring LVAIC Dance Consortium founders

Showcasing the talent of 10 Lehigh Valley-based choreographers:

·      Sarah Carlson, artistic director of DanceLink and adjunct faculty at Lehigh University

·      Heidi Cruz-Austin, co-artistic director of DanceSpora, and part-time lecturer at Muhlenberg College, University of the Arts, and Temple University

·      Angela Sigley Grossman, Assistant Professor of Dance at DeSales University

·      Julia Mayo, Assistant Professor of Dance at DeSales University

·      Rebecca Moyer, co-artistic director of Vada Dance Collective, dance teacher at Lehigh Valley Charter High School of the Performing Arts

·      Jeffrey Peterson, artistic director of Jeffrey Peterson Dance and Assistant Professor of Dance at Muhlenberg College

·      Carrie Rohman, Associate Professor of English at Lafayette College, and independent choreographer affiliated with Sakshi Productions 

·      Nandini Sikand, co-artistic director of Sakshi Productions and Assistant Professor of interdisciplinary film and media studies at Lafayette College

·      Trinette Singleton, co-artistic director of Repertory Dance Theatre and adjunct faculty at DeSales University

·      Jessica Warchal-King, director of The Embodiment Project and part-time lecturer at Muhlenberg College

Admission is free but tickets are required.Available through the Williams Center for the Arts ticket office: http://williamscenter.lafayette.edu/audience-info/ticketing/ and by phone at (610) 330-5009. The Rivers Merge Festival is made possible by the Choreographers on Campus initiative at Lafayette College, supported in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.