Press Releases
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Shawn Short
Director
sshort@ngcfddt.org
202-540-8338 ext 511
Press Releases
2020.1.01 – Dissonance Dance Theatre Featured In First Book
Article: Dissonance Dance’s Shawn Short Is Ensuring His Place Within DC’s Storied Legacy of Dance
Review: 2.25.2020 – Dissonance Dance Inspired By The African American Diaspora
2020-05-5 Ngoma Director Is Featured In ADF DocuDrama Series About DDT
January 21, 2019
2019.01.21 – DC Dance Company Makes Catonsville Debut
February 13, 2019
2019.02.13 – Dancers Meet A Dramtic End in New Dark Production
October 11, 2019
2019.10.11 – Black Dancer And Choreographers Gain Visibility in New DC Festival
2019.10.11 – Fall Back In Love With Contemporary Dance At UMD
2018.1.3 Dissonance Dance Theatre Returns To New York for APAP 2018
February 12, 2018
2018.2.12 We Call Him Lenny B. Dissonance Dance Theatre Presents Lenny B An Evening of Leonard Bernstein.
February 26, 2018
2018.2.26 Stage Meets The Streets In Dissonance Dance Theatre’s ME 2018 Show
April 9, 2018
2018.4.9 St Louis Comes To Mingle With DC Contemporary Ballet
May 7, 2018
2018.5.7 DDT Dancers Promoted to Higher Positions.
August 3, 2018
2018.08.02 Building Black Ballerinas: Ngoma Invests $108k to Train Black Swans of Tomorrow
September 10, 2018
2018.09.10 Motion. Innovatively. Dissonance Dance Theatre Launches Season 12
2018.09.10 – Contemporary Ballet Comes To UMD One Weekend Run
Novmeber 30, 2018
2018.11.30 – Nutcracker Meets Gospel Music and Contemporary Dance
December 10, 2017
Review – Dissonance Dance Theatre: Habibi
Review – Dissonance Dance Theatre Habibi(PDF)
2017.12.1 East Meets West In DDTs Habibi
September 13th, 2017
2017 9 13 DDT Charting New Territory. Opens 11th Season.
2017.9.13 Nationally-Recognized DDT Comes to Annandale One-Night-Only
March 11th, 2017
2017 3 11 DDT Presents Buscando La Melodia (Looking For The Melody)
February 15, 2017
Review. DDT Presents Mahogany Strings at INTERSECTIONS
February 13th, 2017
Brazilian Choreographer Introduces Contemporary Ballet Dancers to Candomble
January 17th, 2017
Winterstep New Works New Choreographers
October 14, 2016
Review – DDT Presents Dance Noir at Jack Guidone Theater
Annual Reports
Image: Jessica Potts & Damon Foster in Gomes’s Gira.