EVENTS.
Upcoming Events
Screendance Cultural TourApril 11
Broadway Centre Cinema | Downtown Salt Lake City, UT Irishia will premiere a new iteration of her film, Why Do I Always Survive for the Screendance Cultural Tour, a dance film festival in collaboration with the Screendance Program at the University of Utah and the Salt Lake Film Society. |
Visibility: Self ReflectionsApril 13 - 21 | 12:00pm
Downtown Bakersfield, CA Irishia will premiere her dance documentary short, F3VER, for Visibility: Self Reflections, Film Premiere and Procession presented by Dance Camera West and Kern Dance Alliance Creative Corps. The free community event includes two weekend parades with dancers, a community choir, and a mobile film screen, plus weeklong indoor screenings. |
RITM Arts & Practitioner Fellows' Spring Showcase
April 18 | 4:30pm
Yale Afro American Cultural Center | New Haven, CT Every semester, through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the RITM Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellowship helps to showcase work that engages with issues of race, indigeneity, migration, gender and sexualities, and other intersecting identities. Join us on April 18th to hear from our three amazing fellows for Spring 2024! |
‘LECTRIC EYEMay 9 -11 | 7:30 PM
Marriott Center for Dance | Salt Lake City, UT Joanna Kotze’s ‘Lectric Eye is a highly physical dance performance, using the connection between music and movement to push physical and sonic limits. ‘lectric Eye is powerful and riveting, drawing attention to the human body’s potential for persistence, resistance, and power. |
New York Public Library
May 29 - June 12
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | Harlem, NYC In the Spring of 2024, Irishia will complete a Short-Term Fellowship at New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture dedicated to supporting her proposed project, Reimagining Screendance: Reclamation of Black Aesthetics in Dance Film History. |
Joffrey South Jazz and Contemporary Intensive
June 17-28
Athens, Georgia Irishia joins as a guest instructor for the esteemed Joffrey South Jazz and Contemporary Intensive, situated on the picturesque campus of the University of Georgia in Athens. This intensive setting provides students with an intimate, supportive, and challenging training experience. Guided by the artistic direction of Colleen Barnes, students are daily challenged and equipped with the tools necessary to exceed their expectations. |
Utah Ballet Summer Intensive (UBSI) 2024
UBSI 2024
July 1 - July 14 Irishia joins as a guest artist to the prestigious Utah Ballet Summer Intensive (UBSI) 2024. Students experience the highest standard of Classical Ballet in a safe and inclusive atmosphere while supported by our renowned ballet masters and contemporary faculty, beautiful facilities, and the amazing Salt Lake City landscape. |