OhioDance
OhioDance is committed to secure the foothold of dance in Ohio through increasing visibility, firming viability, and elevating the position of dance in Ohio.

Festival

2027 OhioDance Festival
Dance Matters: Woven Lineages

Guest Artist Jasmine Hearn

April 30-May 2, 2027
Co-Sponsored by The Ohio State University, Department of Dance, Columbus Ohio 43210

The OhioDance Festival is an annual statewide celebration of dance through
Performance, Dance Presentations/Discussions, and Screenings.

The festival’s theme, Woven Lineages: Preserving and Expanding Dance Practices Visually and thematically, Woven Lineages draws on the metaphor of weaving — threads of the past interlacing with threads of the present to create something whole, resilient, and ever-growing. It’s an invitation to see dance not as a fixed inheritance, but as a living practice: one that each generation reshapes while still honoring where it came from.

2027 Looking to hire dancers: A Call for dance organizations, companies and schools to audition dancers at the 2027 Ohio Dance Festival
https://forms.gle/2EKLho7steh38hQH6  Deadline December 1, 2026

Jasmine Hearn, originally from Houston, TX, is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, teacher, doula, dancer, performer, and organizer. They are committed to performance as an expansive practice that includes a spectrum of dance and somatic traditions, sound design, garment design, film, and the archiving of matrilineal memories. Named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2025), Jasmine is a recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2023), a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design with Athena Kokoronis of DPA (2023), and also awarded two NY Dance and Performance Bessie Awards for Outstanding Performer (2021, 2017* with the cast of skeleton architecture). They are currently on faculty at Bennington College as part of the BFA Dance Lab. (View full bio https://ohiodance.org/festival/guest-artists/)

2027 OhioDance Festival Pre-Professional,  BA College, and Trainees Applications https://forms.gle/ngnURdSFEsCdtPit7  Deadline January 20, 2027

2027 Maggie Patton Dance Award and OhioDance Outstanding High School Senior Dance Student Award
Submission deadline  February 17, 2027

2027 Padma Chebrolu Dance Award and OhioDance Exceptional College/University Dance Student Artist Award
Submission deadline March 1, 2027

 

Support

OhioDance is a statewide organization that inclusively supports the diverse and vibrant practice of dance. OhioDance is supported through grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus Foundation, and The Ohio State University Department of Dance Dance Preservation Fund.

 

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