Audiences will delight in a feast for the eyes as four new works premiere on Yardley Hall stage. For this festival of contemporary and modern dance, the Midwest Trust Center has enlisted four choreographers to create original works for four local dance companies to perform at the world premieres.
The collaborative partners are:
RKDC is thrilled to work with Jessi Stegall:
Jessi Stegall (she/her) is a choreographer based between Chicago and Boston. She has been an artist-in-residence with DanceWorks Chicago, Boston Center for the Arts, the National Center for Choreography (Akron), Hot Crowd Dance Company, Little Fire Artist Collective, Fever Dream Dance Collective, and was featured as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2022). In 2024, she premiered her first evening-length (65 min) production, “The Theremin Vignettes,” at The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, produced by Global Arts Live. In 2025, she will be an emerging choreographer at Springboard Danse in Pittsburgh. Stegall’s approach to choreography is guided by ode-making: crafting poetic responses and love letters that honor and amplify the voices and visions that resonate through time. Her mission is to breathe new life into the echoes of the past, deepening our understanding of and connection to artistic treasures that have shaped our cultural landscape. As a dancer, Stegall has performed works by Raja Feather Kelly, Jill Johnson, Ilya Vidrin, Ali Kenner Brodsky, Mariel Pettee, and Jamila Glass. In addition to her work in dance, she holds an M.S. in Bioethics from Harvard University with a focus in Narrative Ethics, a B.S. in Expressive Art Therapy from Lesley University, and is an alumna of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.
RKDC invites you to join us for Momentum 2025, Dancing with RKDC's Winter season student showcase, at the James Armstrong Theatre in Torrance, CA! Our recitals will feature performances by our over 250 students, including Dancing with RKDC’s 4 performance groups. Show tickets go on sale on October 14 and can be purchased by visiting the James […]
