UCR is Dancing 2022 re-emerges once again as a showcase of new ideas and experiments in original dance making by UCR undergraduate dance majors.

André M. Zachery, Visiting Assistant Professor & Artistic Director

Dance Makers include:

Imran Afzal, Jessica Barajas, Brianna Gomez, Ami-Maxine Hill, Lindsey Humphreys, Hana Kondo-Bacon, Lillian Lewis, Jatara Newell, Xaire Patrick, and Andrea Robinson

Under the artistic direction of Visiting Assistant Professor André M. Zachery and Assistant Director Al Ellison, UCR is Dancing makes its highly anticipated return to as public-facing performance this March with original works by ten undergraduate dance majors. This production is the culmination of five quarters worth of rigorous study in dance composition, critical studies and movement practice courses offered within the Dance undergraduate curriculum. Utilizing various compositional tools including improvisation, partnering, variation, autobiography, energy, abstract movement vocabularies, and time and space, the choreographers allow for unique choreographic perspectives, and contexts to emerge. 

WARNING: This production contains mature content, profanity, and strobe effects.

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Performance Dates & Times

Thursday, Mar 3, 2022 - 8 p.m.

Friday, March 4, 2022 - 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 5, 2022 - 8 p.m.

Location

Performance Lab, ARTS 166

Ticketing
$15 General Admission

$10 non-UCR Students

$8 UCR Students

Get tickets online

University Theatre Box Office Window: Open Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00am-2:00pm (Opening Feb 3rd).
ARTS Building Ticket Office: Open one hour before each performance.
Phone Orders and Customer Service: (909) 227-4788 Monday-Friday, 10:00am-2:00pm.

PARKING:
$7.50 in Lot 1 after 6 p.m. - no fee with UCR permit. Parking can be purchased through the ParkMobile app (zone #2483). Parking is free in Lot 26 & Lot 30 after 6 p.m.

Artistic Director Bio

Visiting Assistant Professor André M. Zachery is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist of Haitian and African American descent, and is a scholar, researcher and technologist with a BFA from Ailey/Fordham University and MFA in Performance & Interactive Media Arts from CUNY/Brooklyn College. As the artistic director of Renegade Performance Group his practice, research and community engagement artistically focuses on merging choreography, technology and Black cultural practices through multimedia work. André is a 2016 New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard Fellow in Choreography, a 2019 Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Choreography, and a New York Dance & Performance Award (Bessie) nominee for Breakout Choreographer in 2021

​His works through RPG have been presented domestically and internationally, receiving support through several residencies, awards, commissions. These have included the  LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island, Dance/NYC Coronavirus Relief Fund, CUNY Dance Initiative, Performance Project Residency at University Settlement, ChoreoQuest Residency at Restoration Arts Brooklyn, 3LD Art & Technology Center, HarvestWorks and a Jerome supported Movement Research AIR. Awarded grants have been from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Harlem Stage Fund for New Work and a Slate Property SPACE Award. Commissions have come from the Brooklyn Museum, Five Myles/BRIC Biennial and Danspace Project.

RPG has earned mentions and favorable reviews from publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, Culturebot, Infinite Blogspot, Futuristically Ancient, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, the Daily News and AFROPUNK. As a technologist André has collaborated with various artists through RPG, the design team of 3LD Art & Technology Center and The Clever Agency on design installations, immersive media productions, film productions, film editing, projection mapping and performance collaborations.

André has worked on major projects across artistic mediums as a choreographer, media designer and consultant with artists such as Daniel Bernard Roumain, Cynthia Hopkins, Davalois Fearon, Dance Caribbean COLLECTIVE, Arin Maya, Rags & Ribbons, The Clever Agency, Kendra Foster, Manhattan School of Music, Burwell & Sasser and Spike Lee.

​As a scholar he has been a member of panels, led group talks, facilitated discussions and presented research on a myriad of topics including Afrofuturism, African Diaspora practices and philosophies, Black cultural aesthetics, technology in art and performance and on expanding the boundaries of art making within the community. He has been a panelist and presented his research at institutions such as Duke University, Brooklyn College, University of Virginia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. André has taught at Brooklyn College and been a guest faculty member at the dance programs of Florida State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Ohio State University, University of California Los Angeles and University of California Riverside.

COVID-19 PROTOCOLS:
Audience members must wear a mask at all times inside the Performance Lab.

Audience members will be asked to fill out an online Wellness Survey prior to coming to UCR's campus, and must show proof of clearance to be on campus before they will be allowed inside the Performance Lab.

Performers are unmasked during performances.