Jane Franklin Dance: Niche

The Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center are proud to present the return engagement of Jane Franklin Dance. This year, chart your own journey from dance to dance in the company’s presentation of Niche at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The performance will be a mapped event that contains solo dances in unexpected, small places. Audience members choose their own viewing order and then walk from dance to dance. Each of the solos happens simultaneously and the audience member selects his or her own viewing order.

It begins with "Compartment," a dance at the main entrance, where maps will be distributed to each audience member. Each solo uses a song associated with the dancer's home town. The movement quality and intent is drawn from a past or current pet in the dancer's life. The Company will meet for a concluding dance around a large column on the third floor.

Part of the Friends’ Performance Art & Lecture Series, this interactive performance is free and open to the public.  Refreshments will be served.

About the Jane Franklin Dance Company
Jane Franklin Dance crosses disciplines in collaboration with music, media, visual artists and community participants. The Washington DC metro area company incorporates active participation in dance by people of all ages, performs outdoors, in galleries and in non-traditional sites, with the aim of making dance accessible to a wide range of audiences. Jane Franklin Dance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

About the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center
The Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to promote the Torpedo Factory Art Center as a vital part of the City of Alexandria and ultimately the greater Washington metropolitan area.  We fulfill our mission by building connections between the Center, its artists and the community. Friends programs and events are underwritten in part through operating assistance from the Alexandria Commission for the Arts.