Spring arts guide: Dance highlights in the Triangle

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The 86th season will be in and around downtown Durham June 13-July 20. Details to be announced this spring.

▪ Rainbow Dance Company Spring Concert, 7:30 p.m. March 2 and 2 p.m. March 3. Cary Academy, 1500 N. Harrison Ave., Cary.

▪ “Bernstein & Robbins,” March 7-24, Fletcher Opera Theater

▪ “Monet Impressions,” April 11-14, Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

▪ “Swan Lake,” May 16-19, Raleigh Memorial Auditorium

▪ Kidd Pivot, “Revisor,” March 21-22.

▪ Batsheva Dance Company, April 2

▪ Shamel Pitts’ “Black Velvet: Architectures and Archetypes” and Bobbi Jene Smith’s “A Study on Effort,” April 24-25, Current. (Note: each program contains nudity.)

▪ “Spring Works - 20th Anniversary Celebration,” March 16. 2 and 7 p.m. Audience favorites from the last 20 years that include excerpts from “Sleeping Beauty,” “Coppélia,” “Swan Lake” and “Paquita.” Plus, new contemporary ensemble pieces by Heather Iler and choreographer Krista King Doherty. $18-$22, reserved seating.

7440 Six Forks Road, Raleigh

919-844-9799 or city-ballet.com

▪ There is a spring performance. See website for details.

▪ Camille A. Brown & Dancers, “Mr. Tol E. Rance,” March 1-2, 8 p.m. Reynolds

▪ Manual Cinema, “No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks,” March 22-23, 8 p.m. Reynolds

▪ ChoreoLab 2019, the spring concert featuring ballet, modern, African dance, jazz, and dance theater works by Duke faculty, advanced students, and alumni. April 12-13,7:30 p.m.

▪ Kristin Clotfelter/Studio C Projects, March 8-9, 15-16, 22-23, Monkey Bottom Collaborative

▪ Paideia, “Untitled,” April 18-20, The Scrap Exchange

▪ Jasmine Powell, “Approximation of a Woman,” May 17, Hayti Heritage Center

▪ A+A, “Don’t Get Any Ideas, Little Lady, June 28-30, The Fruit

▪ “Tap Dogs,” March 19-20

▪ Derek Hough Live! The Tour, April 13, 8 p.m.

▪ Carolina Youth Ballet, April 13, May 18, Fletcher Opera Theater

▪ Imagine National Dance Challenge, May 3-5, Memorial Auditorium

▪ Dance Art Studio Annual Recital, May 10-11, Fletcher

▪ See Carolina Ballet and Raleigh Dance Theatre for shows.

▪ Gaspard Louis and his company perform “Souke-shake” about the 2010 Haiti earthquake, plus the final piece in Louis’ trilogy about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Oct. 5-6, 8 p.m.

▪ After the dance company presents “Cinderella” for a benefit performance on March 2, Cary dancers will share the stage – sort of – with dancers with Project Elimu of Nairobi, Kenya. The dancers have collaborated for months. While dancers in Cary perform on stage, Kenyan dancers will dance with them on screen. Shows at 4 and 7:30 p.m.

▪ Dance Works, April 12-13

▪ David Roussève/Reality, “Halfway to Dawn.” March 2, 8 p.m. NCSU’s Stewart Theatre.

▪ Panoramic Dance Project Concert, March 21-22

▪ NCSU Dance Company Concert, April 11-12

▪ Lightwire Theater’s “Ugly Duckling,” March 24 (kids production)

▪ Lucky Plush Productions, “Rooming House,” April 6

▪ Spring Repertoire, featuring “Swan Lake Act II” and live music, March 30, 2 and 7 p.m. $15 in advance, $18 at the door

▪ Revolutionaries in the Dark at Reality Ministries Ballroom, Durham, Oct. 12

▪ SDW at Third Fridays, Durham, Nov. 16

This story was originally published February 23, 2019 at 12:00 AM.