The Company

Alaska Dance Theatre (ADT), founded in 1981, is the premier nonprofit dance organization in Alaska. It’s mission is to promote dance through performance, professional education and advocacy in Alaska and to provide a place within the dance community for local and visiting artists to expand their creative talent while nurturing discipline, confidence, fitness and the experience of movement. Believing that dance is for everyone, Alaska Dance Theatre strives to keep its programs affordable to a wide range of the population.

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Alaska Dance Theatre’s Performing Company presented its first concert, MOBIUS in 1985 with former Artistic Director, Alice Bassler Sullivan. MOBIUS takes its name from the Mobius Strip, a paper loop with a half twist invented by Mobius in 1858. Symbolizing continual movement while combining elements of geometry and architecture the name fits Alaska Dance Theatre's approach to dance.

The Company has presented works by such choreographers as Tudor, Fokine and Balanchine as well as contemporary works by Tomm Rudd, Judy Austin, Dennis Spaight, Margo Sappington, Jeffery Marc Rockland, Joan Woodbury, Robert Barnett, Shelley Freydont, John Landovsky, Tim O’Slynne, Donlin Foreman, Israel Gabriel, Brian Jeffery, Marianela Boan, Troy Powell, Gabriel Otevrel, Annie Arnoult Beserra, Amy Young, Toni Pimble and Minh Tran.

Alaska Dance Theatre presents a season at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts and an annual studio series in ADT's Alice Bassler Sullivan Studio Theatre.

Alaska Dance Theatre is proud to be the recipient of the 2005 Governor's Award for Outstanding Arts Organization.
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