How Contemporary Dance Theater Turned Cincinnati Into a Modern Dance Destination - Cincinnati Magazine

How Contemporary Dance Theater Turned Cincinnati Into a Modern Dance Destination - Cincinnati Magazine

Jefferson James, founder of Contemporary Dance Theater.Photo courtesy Jan Van Dike When Contemporary Dance Theater founder Jefferson James first moved to Cincinnati with her husband in 1964, there was no real dance scene in the city. “There was sort of a society of ballet studios that developed into Cincinnati Ballet. There was one modern dance teacher at the University of Cincinnati,” says James. “But there weren’t any studios teaching modern t…

The DNA 2025 contemporary dance festival is an artistic program that has three fundamental objectives: to make the artistic community visible, to deploy the program in the territory of the Foral Community and to promote the public's approach to this discipline. It is a project that "is committed to culture, generates new opportunities for creators and strengthens the connection between dance and other fields of knowledge, as well as promotes a m…