Spring Festival of Dance
Program B

Produced by Patricia Seto-Weiss

Lindemann Performing Arts Center
144 Angell Street
Providence RI 02906

May 3, 2PM
May 3, 8PM

This year’s Spring Festival of Dance will be held for the very first time in the Main Hall of the Lindemann Performing Arts Center on May 1st and May 3rd. The Festival will feature two distinct programs.

Program B (May 3 at 2pm and 8pm) will showcase student performers in a diverse lineup choreographed by guest artists, TAPS faculty, and Brown student Billie Miro Breskin ’25. The program opens with a new work by Anya Cloud and Makisig Akin conceived with the Lindemann Performing Arts Center in mind. Paul Singh’s acclaimed Just Your Ambition, premiered at Brown in 2023, will be one of the highlights on the bill. TAPS faculty Ali Kenner Brodsky presents a new work for students in the Intermediate Dance course. Patricia Seto-Weiss again joins forces with intermedia artist John Crawford (University of California, Irvine) for a ballet piece immersed in projection, with music performed by members of the Brown University Orchestra.

All performances will include Lamentation Variations, an evocative work inspired by Martha Graham’s iconic 1930 solo, Lamentation. This ongoing variations project, originally created in remembrance of 9/11, continues to explore grief, resilience, and expression through movement. Brown University students will present three new variations, created under the project’s signature creative conditions, choreographed by Laila Franklin, Heidi Henderson, and Patricia Seto-Weiss.