{"id":2299,"date":"2014-11-23T13:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acdt.org\/?page_id=2299"},"modified":"2019-04-08T19:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T23:47:37","slug":"about-acdt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.acdt.org\/?page_id=2299","title":{"rendered":"About ACDT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre (ACDT) is a non-profit professional dance company created in 1979<\/strong>. We believe that everyone is a dancer and through art and inspiration, the company illuminates the points of intersection that exist on both intellectual and emotional levels, and our diverse repertory reflects both traditional and experimental forms of modern dance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are celebrating 47 years of dance in Asheville.<\/strong>\u00a0The New Studio of Dance was founded in 1970. It is the school of Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, which performs regionally and abroad. The school prides itself in taking the novice dancer through the many stages of technical and artistic development to perform at a professional level in this culture and abroad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Studio of Dance<\/strong>, the official school of the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, is committed to providing a world-class dance education to students of all ages, levels and backgrounds. We provide the highest level of teaching staff and host quality artists, teachers and performers from around the world.\u00a0 Founded in 1970, The New Studio of Dance is celebrating 48 years of dance in Asheville, North Carolina. The New Studio of Dance is also used by ACDT to train future professional dancers. The Junior Company consists of a group of students in high school and middle school who are receiving world-class training and numerous performing opportunities. The members of ACDT\u2019s Junior Company play a large part in creating their own dance program and on occasion apprentice to Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre.\u00a0 Classes are taught in a series of workshops of various dance forms to train a well-rounded artist dancer, and include workshops in Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Partnering, Theater, Voice, Improvisation, Composition, and Choreography. ACDT and the New Studio of Dance produce two major dance-theatre performances, \u201cThe NutCracker and the Mouse King\u201d in December and another in May.<\/p>\n<p><!--Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre (ACDT) is a non-profit professional dance company created in 1979. We believe that everyone is a dancer and through art and inspiration, the company illuminates the points of intersection that exist on both intellectual and emotional levels, and our diverse repertory reflects both traditional and experimental forms of modern dance.\n\n<span class=\"style_2\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span>ACDT performs up to 80 times a year in Asheville, its hometown, the southeastern United States, and abroad (France, Canada, Cuba, Mexico\u2026).\u00a0 Our repertory consists of both full-length modern dance ballets geared towards more mature audiences such as\u00a0<span class=\"style_3\">Looking for Frida<\/span><span class=\"style_2\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style_3\">The Obsession of Dali<\/span><span class=\"style_2\">\u00a0as well as shows geared towards children and general audiences like\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style_3\">Puss in Boots<\/span><span class=\"style_2\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style_3\">The Legend<\/span><span class=\"style_2\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style_3\">of Chocolate<\/span><span class=\"style_2\">.\u00a0 We are the producer of several dance and performing arts festivals in Asheville: The Fringe Arts Festival, The North Carolina Dance Festival and The Men\u2019s Dance Festival to name a few, and we also invite dance companies and artists from around the world to share their talents and enrich the Asheville community.<\/span>--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre (ACDT) is a non-profit professional dance company created in 1979. We believe that everyone is a dancer and through art and inspiration, the company illuminates the points of intersection that exist on both intellectual and emotional levels, and our diverse repertory reflects both traditional and experimental forms of modern dance. 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