OUR MISSION

Our mission is to bring dance, design, and film to all communities as a vibrant process capable of reflecting the extraordinary nature of the human experience. 

"As artists we believe dance has the ability to transcend and reframe reality; to enlighten our minds as to what is lurking underneath the surface. Our work appears as dreamlike images that are ripe with athletic visual experiences in which fiction and reality operate synchronously. By applying abstraction to the everyday we create intense personal moments that feel altogether familiar and foreign at the same time. Nuanced gesture, velocity, abandonment, and task-based work inform our choreographic processes. Partnering and contact improvisation techniques are critical instruments of discovery and create intimate images of relationship within our performance landscapes. The shared experience of the body anchors our work deeply back to the communities in which we create. We are driven to engage our collaborators and audiences in a world that is relevant, mysterious, and absorbing."

ABOUT OGD

Orange Grove Dance (OGD) is a multimedia dance company that creates visually athletic experiences through the lenses of dance, film, and design. Under the direction of Artistic Directors Colette Krogol and Matt Reeves, Orange Grove Dance is recognized for its powerful imagery and choreography, which engages audiences in a world that is relevant, mysterious, and absorbing; a world constructed within time elusive performance landscapes in which mythopoetic tropes and reality collide.

Over the past decade, Orange Grove Dance has been produced and presented worldwide in concert stages, museums, film festivals, underground tunnels, city streets, black box theatres, public parks, botanic gardens, and high-end hotel events, ranging in location from Rauma, Finland to Brooklyn, New York to Washington, DC to Wuhan, China. Recent commissions include the Maryland Theater for the Performing Arts and Stage One, U.S. Botanic Garden, The Kennedy Center, Dance Place, Museum of Zhang Zhidong, City of Alexandria’s Waterfront Park, CulturalDC, Dupont Underground, Joe’s Movement Emporium, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.