Past Performances
Over the past five years we have commissioned over 43 brand new original dance works through our Summer shows.
Making Moves: The CoLAB
June 30th & July 1st, 2023 | PNC Arts Annex
To celebrate 5 years of DDI we invited 8 Artistic Collaborators to partner with our choreographers to create multi-disciplinary dance pieces incorporating live music, painting, set design, and spoken word.
Making Moves
June 24-25, 2022 | PNC Arts Annex
In our fourth season, we returned to the name and venue that started it all. Our annual summer performance Making Moves presented 8 brand new works by returning and new choreographers. Their vision came to life on the PNC Arts Annex stage for 3 incredible performances.
unbound
Bound:
n. / “a limitation or restriction on feeling or action.
v./ “moving forward or upward in a leaping motion”
June 4, 2021 | Dayton Masonic Center
After a 2 year hiatus from live performance, the DDI dancers and choreographers were thrilled to return to a live performance venue for our Dayton audience. 10 brand new works came together for an unforgettable performance.
Fall/winter mini series
photo by Scott Robbins
After the success of our Moving Strong virtual performance, we decided to keep the momentum going with a continuing platform for our artists: with a virtual mini series! Choreographers continue to expand the definition of what it means to create dance through film. Check out our newest videos on our Mini Series page!
For upcoming Virtual Master Classes, scroll to the bottom of this page.
Moving Strong
August 8, 2020 | Virtual Performance
“Like dancers, the people of Dayton bend without breaking. In the face of adversity, we grow stronger.”
The Dayton community faced many hardships surrounding the year 2020, but Dayton has continued to press onward with #DaytonStrong as our motto. Through Moving Strong, we hoped to inspire our community by using our art form to reflect our city’s resilience. 9 brand new dances took our virtual audience inside the dance studio as well as around Dayton as our choreographers brought their voices to life through movement and film.
View the Moving Strong promo video below!
“Moving Strong knocked me out with pride, admiration, emotion, joy — all emotions. Best thing to happen to me since COVID began.”
photos by Briana Page
Making moves
May 19, 2019 | PNC Arts Annex
Our inaugural performance, with two sold out shows at Dayton Live’s PNC Arts Annex. 19 dancers and choreographers took the stage in a new way, creating brand new works on local dancers collaborating for the first time.
““I was so inspired and impressed that Dayton’s professional dancers came together to carefully curate and choreograph a beautiful inaugural performance. The mix of movement and music was wholly entertaining and such a pleasant surprise. It was truly a breath of fresh air! I’ve been supporting the Dayton dance community for a long time, and it was so wonderful to finally see an entire performance of their own original work. I can’t wait to see more!”