Nimbus Dance Announces Thrilling Fall Season Featuring Performances, Premieres, and Major Collaborations
In 20th Season, Nimbus Establishes as a Statewide Leader in Artistic Innovation, National Touring, and Local Impact to the Jersey City Community
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9/9/2024
Jersey City, NJ — Nimbus Dance unveils its highly anticipated Fall Season, celebrating the organization’s 20th Anniversary with a dynamic lineup of performances, premieres, and community events. The Fall season draws together trademark components of Nimbus’ artistic identity, which have fueled the organization’s growth as New Jersey’s largest contemporary dance organization: collaboration with diverse choreographers and musical artists, engagement with national figures in the arts as well as Jersey City-based artists, and work that engages and entertains while also pushing artistic boundaries.
Spring 2025 will bring unprecedented new creative work for the dance company, including the world premiere of Samuel Pott’s Firebird, commissioned by and presented alongside the New Jersey Symphony at NJPAC and Count Basie Theater; and Dark Water, the third in a series of collaborations with Brooklyn composer Qasim Naqvi and featuring an interactive visual component by Guggenheim fellow Nicola López.
The State of New Jersey’s largest contemporary dance organization, Nimbus, is comprised of its renowned professional touring dance company, the Nimbus Arts Center, providing a home base for multiple arts organizations, including Segunda Quimbamba and Bridge Art Gallery, the School of Nimbus, serving over 500 youth annually with professional instruction in dance, theater, and singing, and offsite arts programming that serves thousands of Jersey City youth in the school system. Under the visionary leadership of Founding Artistic Director Samuel Pott, Nimbus has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Arts & Culture Renewal Fund, New Music USA, O’Donnell-Green Foundation, and many others.
Nimbus Dance Spring Highlights:
Nimbus Dance returns to The Bickford Theater at the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ on February 21, 2025 with a program of dances perfect for lovers of dance and music. Morris Knolls High School students will join Nimbus’ dancers in Samuel Pott’s endearingly slapstick “Roseification” set to the spunky music of Valerie Coleman. The program includes several joyful performances to music by New Jersey composer Paquito D’Rivera and iconic Jazz songstresses Nancy Wilson and Nina Simone. Nimbus rounds out the evening with the final preview performance of Pott’s modernization of “Firebird” set to classic Stravinsky score, which will premiere with the New Jersey Symphony at New Jersey Performing Arts Center just weeks later.
World Premiere Performances of Samuel Pott’s latest Collaboration with the New Jersey Symphony at NJPAC and Count Basie Theatre, March 7 – 9, 2025. Audiences will witness Samuel Pott’s innovative reimagining of The Firebird, transforming Stravinsky’s masterpiece into a modern tale of flight and freedom, drawing inspiration from the myth of Icarus, conducted by New Jersey Symphony Music Director Xian Zhang. The program also features Dark Water, the concluding work in Pott’s multi-year collaboration with composer Qasim Naqvi and visual artist Nicola López, exploring water’s profound symbolism and humanity’s connection to the natural world.
Nimbus Dance celebrates its 20th Anniversary Gala at the Nimbus Arts Center on April 5, 2025, with an evening of dance, music, and community. The event will feature thrilling performances, including highlights from Nimbus’ critically acclaimed repertoire. Attendees will enjoy an elegant evening of dining, live entertainment, and a chance to support Nimbus’ continued impact on the arts.
Nimbus Dance at the Nimbus Arts Center on May 1 – 3.
Nimbus Dance tours to Arkansas, performing at the Walton Arts Center on May 9.
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About Nimbus Dance:
Nimbus Dance bridges the gap between world-class performances and community engagement by presenting work that challenges, speaks to, and elevates the core beliefs of its diverse audience. Founded in 2005 by visionary Artistic Director Samuel Pott (former soloist with Martha Graham Dance Company) and based in Jersey City, Nimbus stands at the forefront of excellence in the arts, civic engagement, and equitable impact. With a highly physical and visually engaging aesthetic, Nimbus’ international company of dancers “split the difference between traditionalism and modernism… A Nimbus piece can pivot from ballet to Broadway to Beyoncé in a few beats.” (Tris McCall, Jersey City Times). The company performs on tour nationally and throughout the greater New Jersey/New York region, impacting more than 16,000 people annually. Recently, Nimbus performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood and is humbled by support from the National Endowment for the Arts and O’Donnell Green Music and Dance Foundation. Stay connected: @NimbusDance www.nimbusdance.org
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