It’s the fifth annual Motion State Dance Festival! This dazzling array of performances, dance films and artist/audience interactions presents the latest in contemporary dance and movement-based art. The Festival gathers local and national, emerging and established dance artists to share their boundary-pushing creative explorations with a growing Rhode Island dance audience in four different evening programs.

Featuring live performances from Molly Lieber (NY) & Eleanor Smith (NY), Lacina Coulibaly (CT), and Kathy Westwater (NY) & Lance Gries (NY/RI), and the return of our Small Moves, Big Picture evening, featuring short dances on a tiny stage by Makisig Akin (Berlin) & Anya Cloud (CO), Alex Davis (MA), Barbie Diewald & Meredith Bove (MA), Daniel McCusker (MA), NANO (RI), and Jessica Pearson & April Brown (RI).

The fifth-anniversary festival also includes dance films from around the world, post-show talks and parties, and classes with the artists to round out the five-day extravaganza.