Events
SummerDance Student Showcase
Join us for a Vaudeville-Style Variety Show at the historic Rosendale Theatre on August 9th! 🎉🎶 The SummerDance Student Showcase will feature eclectic performances from ballet to Afro-Caribbean Soca, Appalachian clogging, and more! Directed by Brian Lawton, this event is the grand finale of The Vanaver Caravan's SummerDance Intensive. 📅 Date: August 9th, 6:00 PM 📍 Location: Rosendale Theatre 🎟️ Tickets: Pay What You Can (Suggested Donation: $15)
SummerDance: Performance Week (Ages 9-18)
SummerDance: Performance Week culminates at a public performance at the Rosendale Theatre on the evening of August 9th. All Summer-Dancers take the skills they learned during the previous week and bring their dance to life, choreographed by the SummerDance Faculty. LEARN MORE & REGISTER
Honoring the Vanaver Caravan at Mohonk
Mohonk Consultations is delighted to honor The Vanaver Caravan Dance and Music Company for its more than 50 years of promoting peace, celebrating our shared humanity, and transforming young lives through the magic of music and dance.
Into the Light @ DIA (Detroit, MI) (Copy)
Catch one of our tour performance of Into the Light: December 27th & 28th, 2023. 2:00pm. Presented by the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI. TICKETS (FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
Into the Light @ DIA (Detroit, MI)
Catch one of our tour performance of Into the Light: December 27th & 28th, 2023. 2:00pm. Presented by the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI. TICKETS (FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC)
Into the Light @ Webutuck High School (Amenia, NY)
Catch one of our tour performance of Into the Light: December 17th, 2023. 3pm. Presented by the Amenia Town Hall, Amenia NY. This event is FREE & open to the public.
Into the Light @ Smith Center for the Arts (Geneva, NY)
Catch one of our tour performance of Into the Light: December 16th, 2023. 11am. Presented by the Smith Center for the Arts in Geneva, NY. TICKETS
CANCELLED 🎶🎄Swing Dancing with the Bear🎄🎶
THIS EVENT AS BEEN CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment this causes.
Into the Light @ The Rosendale Theatre
Catch our full Dance Institute’s hometown performances on December 9th & 10th at the Rosendale Theatre. Shows at 2pm & 4pm. Tickets & Info.
AppleFest: A Harvest Family FUNdraiser
Join The Vanaver Caravan for the inaugural AppleFest, a lively harvest gathering for the whole family! Tickets by donation. Learn more and reserve your spot today 🍎🍂🎻
🍂Aging Gracefully with the Feldenkrais Method (R)
AGING GRACEFULLY WITH THE FELDENKRAIS METHOD® | ADULT
Wednesdays | Stone Ridge | 5:00-6:00PM | Debra Waner
8 class series begins OCTOBER 4TH - ENDS NOVEMBER 29 (NO CLASS ON NOVEMBER 22)
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Learn more & register.
🍂Adult Intermediate Modern Dance
8 class series begins Sept 21, ends Nov 9 | Thursdays | 6:00-7:30pm | Adult | Timna Kligler. This class series will build and develop physical conversations around big juicy moves, improvisational decision-making, and cultivating tenderness and wildness. This is a place to sweat, spiral, fall, make decisions and change our minds, break down 'technique' and then break away from it, and most of all ask questions and more questions. Come prepared to engage with phrase-material, improvisation, and happy sweat. Drop-ins welcome! Some experience in a dance context is strongly encouraged. REGISTER NOW
Indian Contemporary Dance Workshop
ONE NIGHT ONLY! On Wed 9.27.23, 6:00-7:30, join us for a special evening of Indian Contemporary Dance with guest artist Vidushi Gupta. Explore an artform of movement inspired by Indian classical Folk dance, infused with modern elements of contemporary dance. Experience the natural rhythm of your body supported by breath, emotions, and energy centers (chakras). SIGN UP NOW.
🍂 FallDance Classes (New Paltz & Stone Ridge)
We have ALL NEW class offerings this season, for ages 2-adult. Please familiarize yourself with the new schedule, class times, ages, and locations. LEARN MORE & REGISTER
Opus 40: YouthScape
Opus 40: Youthscape is an interactive site-specific performance created in collaboration with The Vanaver Caravan Dance Company’s artists and . . . LEARN MORE
Shakti Caravan Earthday Benefit at Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center
Join us on Earth Day as we honor communities around the globe that envision and work towards a more beautiful, whole, and healthy world. This event celebrates the Caravan's ongoing cultural exchange and school enrichment programming in Auroville, India. Auroville is a community innovator in solar energy, reforestation, mudbrick building, sustainable farming, probiotics, water purification, village action, handicrafts and design—a global community in the heart of Tamil Nadu, India, in search of a more conscious lifestyle. Live music, dance, light refreshments and more! TICKETS HERE
"Into the Light" Premiere
Join us for the first ever Virtual Presentation of our holiday extravaganza . . .Into the Light: A Tale of Hope. Sunday December 20th, 2020 | 6:30-7:00 PM, Holiday Zoom Gathering | 7:00 - 8:00 PM, Into the Light Premiere on Vimeo/Youtube.
FallDance: Series Two
Welcome to FallDance Series 2, 2020. This semester the focus for the majority of the classes will be Into the Light, our annual holiday celebration. This year will be a special virtual performance created by students who choose to participate.
#GivingTuesday Social DisDANCE Party!
Join us on Zoom on Tuesday May 5th for our Giving Tuesday Social DisDANCE Party!
#VirtualBeltane
#VirtualBELTANE Dance Challenge: We can't meet in person this Beltane, but our revels have not ended! This Friday, May 1st, we challenge you to dress up in your most Beltane-inspired outfit and post your own springtime offering of dance, song, music, art, story-telling, poetry or photography. Tag @VanaverCaravan and use hashtag #VirtualBeltane.
Dancers in our Youth co and Thursday Classes: read more for choreography specifications.