Intersections (arts festival)


The cross cultural arts festival known as INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival is a music, theater and dance festival held annually in Washington, D.C..

Description

It is held on the weekends around the spring equinox. All performances are presented within the restored Atlas Performing Arts Center in D.C. The festival consists of 12 days of performing and visual arts celebrating the diversity, energy and excellence of artists and audiences from Washington, D.C. and beyond.
The subtitle for the festival is “Where Arts Merge and Cultures Meet.”
It was conceived and established in 2010 under the guidance of Jane Lang, and was curated by Mary Hall Surface, who continues to serve as the Festival Artistic Director. Major support for INTERSECTIONS is provided by the FIRE Fund of The Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, designed to promote interracial understanding and collaboration.

2010 Festival

Over 60 people, groups, and organizations performed during the first festival, held in 2010. The official list includes:

"The President's Own" US Marine Chamber Orchestra String Ensemble

Arena Stage

Arena Stage’s Voices of Now Mentor Ensemble

Capital City Symphony and the Young Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

Christylez Bacon

Tom Chapin

Adele Robey

Anastasia Robinson

Andy Fahs

Beny Blaq

BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company

Capital Jazz Project

Carlos César Rodriguez

Charles Williams

Children of the Gospel

Children's Chorus of Washington and Glorystar Children's Chorus

Chris Youstra

City Dance Ensemble

Coyaba Dance Theater

David Crowley

David Emerson Toney

DCypher Dance

Ekene Okobi

Folger Shakespeare Library

GALA Hispanic Theatre

God's Miracles Gospel Quintet

Holly Bass

Imani

James Foster, Jr.

Jason Garcia Ignacio

Jay Walkers

John Hurd



Kevin Reese

Kim Roberts

Levine School of Music

Lulu Fall

Marva Hicks

National Children's Museum

Northeast Senior Singers and the Delta Players

Og Ceol

Oran Sandel

Peter Dimuro

Peter Joshua Burroughs

Reverb

Sami Miranda

SpeakeasyDC

Step Afrika!

Steven Roberts

Sticky Mulligan

Symphony Space

Tappers with Attitude

The Extension Agents

The Joy of Motion Dance Center

Theater Alliance

Tom Teasley

Trio Grabielismo

Urban Artistry

Vertical Voices Playback Theatre

Wale Liniger

Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington Savoyards

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Word-Beat

2011 Festival

Over 50 people and groups performed during the festival in 2011. A partial list includes:

Adventure Theatre

African Continuum Theatre Company

AirBorne! DC and Zip Zap Circus USA

Arena Stage's Voices of Now Mentor Ensemble

BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company

Capital City Symphony

City at Peace DC

Collide-O-Scope Music

Coyaba Dance Theater & Urban Artistry

DCypher Dance

The Delta Players and the Northeast Senior Singers

The Dinner Party

Dissonance Dance Theatre



Pablo Grabiel

Trio Caliente

Furia Flamenca

Gibraltar

Matthew Hemerlein

Imani

The In Series

Cecilia Esquivel

Jenifer Deal

Jose Caceres

Jane Franklin Dance

Joy of Motion Dance Center

Angela Kariotis

Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble

Mosaic Harmony Community Choir & Ralph Herdon and Tradition

Nasar Abadey and Supernova

Not What You Think

New Galaxy Theatre Group

Quest

Reverb

Anastasia Robinson

Peter Burroughs

Carlos César Rodriguez

Scena Theatre

Kevin Reese

Sidwell Friends School Dance Ensemble

Silk Road Dance Company

Six Impossible Things

SpeakeasyDC

The Spilling Ink Project

Split This Rock

Step Afrika!

Sulu DC & Holly Bass Performance Projects

Theater of the First Amendment

Paige Hernandez

Vertical Voices Playback Theatre

Washington Ballet and the In Series

Word Dance Theater

Dianne Falk

Tom Teasley

2012 Festival

Over 50 people and groups were scheduled to perform during the 2012 festival. A partial list includes:
alight dance theater, DancEthos, & Glade Dance Collective

Adventure Theatre & Jazz Academy of Music

Arena Stage's Voices of Now Mentor Ensemble

Rachel Ann Cross

DC Area Playwrights’ Group

DCypher Dance

Dance Exchange's Teen Exchange & SYMAL's Youth Arts Ensemble

The Delta Players & Northeast Senior Singers with Ford's Theatre

Duke Ellington School of the Arts

Stephen Lang

Tom Teasley

Folger Poets

Tom Goss & Potomac Fever

Holloway Youth Project

Hueman Prophets

Illstyle and Peace Productions presented by Dance Place

Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour

New Galaxy Theatre Group

Not What You Think

Quest Visual Theatre

Shange Dance Productions

Sidwell Friends School Dance Ensemble

Source Festival

SpeakeasyDC

Split This Rock

National Gallery of Art & DC Youth Poetry Slam Team

Take Flight Productions

Vertical Voices & Synergy in Action Playback Theatre Companies

Young Playwrights' Theater & Holloway Youth Project

Christylez Bacon

B-Fly Entertainment

Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra

Bowen McCauley Dance

Capital City Symphony

Public Displays of Motion

Dissonance Dance Theatre

Great Noise Ensemble

Harmonious Blacksmith

The In Series

Jane Franklin Dance

Just Tap

Rorschach Theatre

Jon Spelman with Tina Chancey

Vivre Musicale & Full Circle Dance Co.

Zip Zap Circus USA / Airborne DC!

Samia Mahbub Ahmad

BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company

Charles H. Clyburn

DC Swing!

Furia Flamenca

Imani

Kennedy String Quartet

Library of Congress presents The Saiyuki Trio with Rudresh Mahanthappa

Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble

Nasar Abadey and Supernova

Reverb & Euphonism

Spilling Ink Project & Srishti Dances of India