Wortham 2026/27 Season
New Dialect Dance Masterclasses
Fri & Sat, Oct 23 & 24, 2026
Diana Wortham Theatre Stage
Friday: $30 | Saturday: Free with RSVP
Friday, October 23, 2026 • 1 pm–2:30 pm
Designed for advanced and professional-level dancers (15 & up), this class offers dancers the chance to dive deeply into the collaborative creative process tools Banning uses to develop new works. Dancers will explore generating detailed movement vocabularies and partnerships together and then use these skills to research scenes from Banning’s latest work, 21 Yeses.
Saturday, October 24, 2026 • 10:45 am–12:15 pm
People of all experience levels (ages 18+) are invited to join New Dialect’s resident choreographer and artistic director, Banning Bouldin, to explore the collaborative improvisation and composition games she played with New Dialect’s dancers to create the lighting design and choreography for 21 Yeses. All abilities are welcome. No previous dance experience required.
Registration Info
- Friday: $30 | Saturday: Free with RSVP
- All sales are final—refunds, credits, and transfers are unavailable.
- A current Class Consent Form (as of July 1) must be on file before attending. Participants under 18 require written parent/guardian consent.
No taxes or fees are charged for masterclasses.
Plan Your Visit
Two masterclasses – Friday & Saturday, October 23 & 24, 2026
Advance reservations recommended. Please arrive 15-30 minutes prior to start of masterclass and check in with Class Monitors.
Friday
- Lobby opens – 12:30 pm
- Class time – 1 pm
- Duration – 90 mins
Saturday
- Lobby opens – 10:15 am
- Class time – 10:45 am
- Duration – 90 mins
See the performance: Fri & Sat, Oct 23 & 24 • 8 pm
Imagining the tech-aesthetic of a space odyssey, New Dialect’s 21 Yeses blends contemporary dance with bold lighting technologies to explore light as movement and darkness as action. Choreographer Banning Bouldin (seen in Stewart/Owen Dance+ Guests in 2026) and production designer Michael Brown (Bon Iver) take audiences into a mesmerizing interplay where motion and illumination capture and release one another in an endless distance.
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