Dance Alive National Ballet presents “Love in the Swamp”!

Press release from Dance Alive National Ballet

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day more than Love, and Dance Alive National Ballet (DANB) gives you love in abundance! 

WHAT: LOVE IN THE SWAMP
WHEN: February 10, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
TICKETS: https://performingarts.ufl.edu/events/love-in-the-swamp/
Purchase in person at the Phillips Center box office or by phone (352.392.2787 or 800.905.2787)

A fun and fantastic show, it sets the mood with the DANB dancers in Gator “orange and blue” dancing exuberantly down the aisles. Brian Chung’s magnificent work of love, Touch Me Closer (a work that received three standing ovations at the Association of Arts Professionals in NY), will be joined by a new work by DANB’s Jose Ramos that will touch your heart with its passion and tenderness.

Resident choreographer Judy Skinner’s ode to Paynes Prairie, Another Time…Another Place, with poetry by Lola Haskins and images from Matheson History Museum, follows. Dancers and poets do indeed take you back to another time, when ladies wore white dresses and children played with sticks and tumblebugs–a simpler time that had its own stresses and joys.

Assistant Artistic Director Andre Valladon then performs his signature solo Los Hermanos to UF professor Welson Tremura’s throbbing guitar and vocals. The sensuality, rhythm, and expressive power in this piece by Artistic Director Kim Tuttle takes over the stage. Valladon and Tremura… masters of their art form.

The finale… a joyous celebration… L’Amour. This work has been an audience (AND dancer) favorite for over 20 years – toured from Costa Rica to the Midwest and beyond. Assistant Artistic Director Andre Valladon once again takes the stage in control of this highly entertaining work – spectacular dance showcasing the effortless physicality, technical prowess, expressive power, and humor of the dancers. Watch an excerpt from L’Amour here.

You will be transported!

Family friendly.