Gravity-defying dance, eye-opening collaboration and heartwarming reunion will mark Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s 49th season, Lineage.

The season kicks off with Wynton Works, a salute to jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, performed on the Victoria Theatre Saturday,...

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Associate Artistic Director Crystal Michelle Perkins accepted a position this week as an Assistant Professor of Dance at The Ohio State University.

Perkins, who lectured at OSU during the 2016-17 season, will continue her duties as DCDC...

Last weekend, April 7 & 8, DCDC Dancers Qarrianne Blayr & Countess V. Winfrey performed as guest artists in Howard University's spring dance concert, titled "Unjust."

 Qarrianne, an alumnus of Howard U, was thrilled to be back onstage at her alma mater, this time ar...

The second work in the company’s 2016-17 Story-Tellers season, DCDC dancers will use movement to translate Charles Tazewell’s words, telling the story of a child who enters heaven and offers a gift to the Christ child that transforms the meaning of giving and sacrifice...

Body Talk, the opening performance of the Bessie Award-winning Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s (DCDC) 2016-17 season, will explore the role of celebrated African-American playwrights as the Griot (pronounced GREE-o) of African-American culture.

An original work chor...