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Discount Tickets to American Dance Festival

Tickets are on sale for Triangle performances June 16 through July 30

Dance company Pilobolus will kick off the 2016 ADF season at the Durham Performing Arts Center June 16-18. Photo by Ian Douglas
Dance company Pilobolus will kick off the 2016 ADF season at the Durham Performing Arts Center June 16-18. Photo by Ian Douglas

The American Dance Festival has been part of Myra Weise’s life for 13 years.

Weise, now the Duke University Box Office and Information Desk manager, attended the ADF School starting in 2003, when she’d take modern, West African, ballet and improvisation dance classes. She also ran the festival’s video blog in 2010 and went on to work full-time in ADF marketing and advertising. Then, in 2013, she went on tour as company manager for dance company Pilobolus, which is headlining the dance festival this summer in Durham.

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“It’s contagious, the excitement, because the passion and love for dance as an art form runs so deep,” Weise said of the festival. “It’s what makes me return year after year. Even though I haven’t taken a dance class in probably a year, that excitement never leaves you.”

Myra Weise
Myra Weise dances in a 2008 ADF class. Photo by Gregory Georges

Tickets are on sale for the American Dance Festival’s 83rd season. The modern dance festival will present 61 performances June 16 through July 30. Duke employees receive 20 percent off most ADF ticket prices, which regularly range from $10 to $62. Full-time students receive half-priced tickets to most performances by showing a DukeCard ID at the box office window one hour before show time.

Twenty-six dance companies from the U.S., France, Israel and Russia will perform in 13 different venues on Duke’s campus, in Durham and throughout the Triangle. Performances include Pilobolus’ “Shadowland,” which incorporates multiple moving screens and shares the experience of a young girl’s sensational world as she comes of age; the Paul Taylor Dance Company’s works such as “Promethean Fire,” set to three keyboard compositions by Bach; and Company Wang Ramirez’s “Borderline,” which blends contemporary and hip hop dance to explore the meaning of democracy.

Find the complete performance schedule and ticket information on the ADF website.