Past Performances
Over the past six years we have commissioned over 51 brand new original dance works through our Summer shows.
Unite & Ignite
June 28-29th, 2024 | PNC Arts Annex
DDI’s sixth season season performance ushered in new leadership, new community partnerships, and 8 new choreographic works by both returning and new artists. We welcomed an emerging choreographer from Wright State Dance and hosted the first ever “Find Your Groove” dance camp with Dayton Live’s Creative Academy.
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
After the success of our Moving Strong virtual performance, we decided to keep the momentum going with another platform for our artists: with a virtual mini series!
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.
“Moving Strong knocked me out with pride, admiration, emotion, joy — all emotions. Best thing to happen to me since COVID began.”
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 and 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!”