Fancy Footwork

DANCEworks, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary at the Lobero, wraps its month-long residency with New York choreographer Doug Elkins and a heavenly host of past alumni this weekend (September 7-8).

Final rehearsals, open to the public, took place last week, part of the innovative collaboration between Dianne Vapnek‘s SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara and the Lobero Theatre Foundation, designed to offer notable American choreographers a four-week residency in which to create, rehearse, and premiere the new 40-minute work Kintsugi Samba on the venerable theater’s stage.

DANCEworks has already contributed to the careers of several groundbreaking dancers including Aszure Barton, Larry Keigwin, Brian Brooks, Mark Dendy, Adam Barruch, Doug Varone, Shannon Gillen, and Kate Weare.

It promises to be quite a show.