Dance

With Rooted, Ayodel Casel, tap dancer and choreographer traces the roots of her artform, building on a rich history while forging the future. We'll sum up with the Times' assessment of Casel: "She's astonishing." 

Martha Graham radically expanded the dance vocabulary, and her work has captivated audiences worldwide while influencing generations of artists. The program will open with Graham's Panorama, performed by more than 20 student dancers from the University of Iowa Dance Department. 

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo—the world's foremost all-male ballet comic ballet company—offers both homage and parody performed en travesti. The program will include works from across the company's 50 years.

The Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group's body of work draws from the spiritual and earth-bound traditions of Africa and its diaspora. Wilson's most recent work, POWER, considers how the Black Shaker communities in the early 1800s might have lived and worshipped.

Dance Gala 2023 celebrates its return to the Hancher stage with new and restaged works by faculty members and creative collaborators as well as a work by distinguished guest choreographer Aaron Samuel Davis. 

Dance Gala 2022 celebrates its return to the Hancher stage with groundbreaking choreography created by the University of Iowa Department of Dance faculty and the premiere of new work by FLOCK.

American Ballet Theatre returns to close Hancher’s 50th anniversary season with a mixed repertory program that is sure to thrill and delight everyone who experiences it.

Pilobolus—that feisty arts organism—is, like Hancher, celebrating 50 years! Turning its traditions sideway and bringing its past into the future, Pilobolus will perform a mix of signature works from the vintage and visionary to the fresh and electrifying.