Gin Dance Company - Featured at 2015 Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival

Reston, Virginia (April 8, 2015)- Reston, Virginia based Gin Dance Company (GDC) will be a featured performer at the 2015 Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival on May 16 & 17, 2015 which will take place at the Reston Town Square Park in the Reston Town Center. This event will commemorate Sculpturer Patrick Dougherty’s newest project at Reston Town Square Park. Gin Dance Company Artistic Director Shu-Chen Cuff has created a piece, Six Degrees, that will be performed on the site of the Dougherty sculpture during the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival on May 16, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. and on May 17, 2015 at 11:00 a.m.

Just as the Dougherty sculpture is comprised of individual saplings intertwining with each other to give shape and form to an overall structure bringing a level of meaning and purpose that any one sapling could never have done on it’s own. Shu-Chen Cuff explores through her choreography of Six Degrees how we, as individuals, intertwine our lives with those around us, and they with those around them, and so on until we form a network that gives meaning, structure and purpose that any one individual could never have accomplished on their own. Shu-Chen will bring in her Gin Dance Company Dancers along with an extended cast that will transform Reston Town Square Park into a living theatrical experience not to be missed. Admission is Free.

Gin Dance Company (GDC) is a Metropolitan DC/Northern Virginia based performing arts modern dance company. GDC was founded in 2011 both to provide a professional environment for artists to learn, grow, and express themselves and to bring refreshing and vitalizing works of Artistic Director Shu-Chen Cuff to the community. GDC has performed at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Sidney Harman Hall at the Shakespeare Theatre, Atlas Center for the Performing Arts, George Mason Performing Arts Center, The Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center, Reston CenterStage, and more. Each of Shu-Chen’s works uniquely reflects her rich Asian Dance heritage and Eastern philosophy blended with Western fluidity of movement and culture. www.gindance.org