Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Sukanya Burman
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artists: Troy Lingelbach; Music from the Sole; Sun Kim Dance Theatre
Community Partners: Chautauqua County Government; Chautauqua Region Community Foundation; Jamestown Community College; Jamestown Farmers Market; Jamestown Justice Coalition; Jamestown Pride; Jamestown Skate Products; Live CHQ; New Neighbors Coalition; Reg Lenna Center for the Arts; Robert H. Jackson Center; Wegmans; YWCA Jamestown
Audience: 1,182
Counties: Chautauqua; Monroe
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Heidi Latsky
Community Partners: Skidmore College Department of Dance; Union College Department of Theatre and Dance, Schenectady
Audience: 250
Counties: Saratoga, Schenectady
Heidi Latsky in LIVING IN THE GREY. Photo courtesy of Heidi Latsky Dance
Year: 2026-2027
DanceForce Member: Missy Pfohl Smith
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Heidi Latsky
Community Partners: Center for Disability Rights; University of Rochester Program of Dance & Movement; URMC Dept. of Health Humanities and Bioethics; URMC Dept. of Neurology & Palliative Medicine
Audience: 365
County: Monroe
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: James Lemons
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Barkha Patel
Community Partner: Lake Placid School of Dance
Audience: 59
County: Essex Continue reading Celebrating Kathak Dance in the Adirondacks→
Top photo: Barkha Patel in “ramti aave: her playful arrival” at Union College on 2-13-26. Still from video shot by Sean Junda. Bottom photo: Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company in Barkha Patel’s “zikr” at The Egg on 4-25-26. Photo by Eleanor Goldsmith
Year: 2025-2026
DanceForce Member: Kim Engel
Partnering DanceForce Member: Ivan Sygoda
Artist: Barkha Patel
Community Partners: Albany Academy; Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company; Russell Sage College Dance Program; Schenectady City School District; UAlbany; Union College Department of Theatre and Dance, Schenectady
Audience: 862
Counties: Albany, Rensselaer, Schenectady Continue reading Bringing Barkha Patel Back to the Capital Region→
Les Ballet Afrik in New York is Burning. Photo by Rob Sigler Photography
Year: 2025-2026 DanceForce Member: Sukanya Burman Partnering DanceForce Members: Margaret Kaiser, Ivan Sygoda Artists: Grace Gibbons; Star Larson; Les Ballet Afrik; MahataMmoho Collective; Sri Thina Dance Community Partners: Chautauqua Regional Youth Ballet; Jamestown Community College; Jamestown Farmers Market; Jamestown Pride; Jamestown Public Market; New Neighbors Coalition; Reg Lenna Center for the Arts; Studio Dance Conservatory, Jamestown; Torn Space Theatre; YWCA Jamestown Audience: 706 Counties: Chautauqua, Erie
