One of the best kept secrets in the Hudson Valley. The Beltane Pageant is a performance of myth, magic, and puppetry which fuses the pomp and whimsy of a Renaissance fair with the delights of a springtime picnic gala. Don your best fairy wings and join us! TICKETS: https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/4709fb05-2ab5-4f95-86c8-295840bd782d

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)

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)

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. 

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

We will be performing excerpts of our Holiday Spectacular, Into the Light, at the Sinterklaas Festival in Rhinebeck, NY. Join us during one of four shortened 1/2 hour performances on Saturday, at 2pm, 3pm, 4pm. Performance is free & open to the public.

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 🍎🍂🎻

Opus 40: Youthscape is an interactive site-specific performance created in collaboration with The Vanaver Caravan Dance Company’s artists and . . . LEARN MORE

What happens when Tom Chapin, Guy Davis, Professor Louie & Miss Marie, Walt Michael & Co., Brenda Bufalino & Michael Sansonia, and The Vanaver Caravan come together? An incredible evening of music, song, dance, and a dynamic, heartfelt festival not to be missed!

One of the best kept secrets in the Hudson Valley. The Beltane Pageant is a performance of myth, magic, and puppetry which fuses the pomp and whimsy of a Renaissance fair with the delights of a springtime picnic gala. Don your best fairy wings and join us! TICKETS & INFO

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

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You may also watch the livestream at 4pm. The link will be posted HERE on Saturday @ 3:30PM

We will be performing excerpts of our Holiday Spectacular, Into the Light, at the Sinterklaas Festival in Rhinebeck, NY. Join us during one of four shortened 1/2 hour performances on Saturday, at 2pm, 3pm, 4pm.

Performance is free & open to the public.

Come home to your Caravan and join all the generations of The Vanaver Caravan community as we gather for an evening of good food, good drink, good music, and dancing merriment. Journey back through the decades to experience the highlights, recreations of the best dances, the most wonderful adventures, and good friends who have brought The Vanaver Caravan to life for half a century.

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Join us at the Battery Dance Festival! In celebration of The Vanaver Caravan’s 50th year anniversary of their first performance in 1972, they present excerpts from their legacy of innovative world dance and music. This retrospective showcase weaves together a percussive dance tapestry of pieces from their renowned repertoire. Featuring works inspired by American, Irish, African, French Canadian, and Balkan traditions, and a cast composed of world renowned Caravan dancers.

The Vanaver Caravan has been performing at Opus 40 since 1979. This beautiful, sacred mile long stone sculpture by Harvey Fite has been the environment for many site specific pieces over the years. This summer, choreographer/composer: Sandy Silva will be collaborating with The Vanaver Caravan, Gah-be, Debbie Lan and BLOOM, and Nina Jirka to create an interactive event with the community and the stones on August 12 at 5:30 PM. Tickets and Info

The Vanaver Caravan is honored to co-produce the Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival with our beloved alumna, Company Member, and SummerDance faculty member, Anna Librada. Join us this weekend! Every August the Flamenco Festival transforms the arts scene in the Hudson Valley to create an experience of flamenco that doesn’t exist anywhere else outside of Spain with: flamenco flash mobs, cooking classes, workshops for all ages, flamenco shows in intimate settings, high performance art in local theatres. TICKETS & INFO,

Using the arts as a catalyst for joyful community-building, Summer Wellness Festival provides support for the mental health and well-being of children, teens, and young adults in the Hudson Valley. Summer Wellness Festival will be an intimate one day event made up of various local organizations and dance studios, each dedicated to the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of youth in the hudson valley. This festival is the culminating event of SummerDance, and is co-produced by The Vanaver Caravan's Youth Company & Caravan Kids with Stone Mountain Farm, the Hudson Valley Flamenco Festival, Maya Gold Foundation, Rise Outside Collective, and more. Rain-date, August 7, 1-5pm

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Join The Vanaver Caravan Musicians on July 30th at Opus 40 for the Stockade Saturday Cabaret, featuring live music, poetry, great food, and drinks, all framed by the remarkable Catskill Mountains at sunset.

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Walkway Over the Hudson presents the Bridge Music Dance Project, a program of innovative performances choreographed to “Bridge Music” and performed by dancers from the Hudson Valley. The Bridge Music Dance Project is a collaborative event, hosted by the Walkway Friends organization, and created by Livia Vanaver, founder of the renowned Vanaver Caravan Dance troupe, with eight other choreographers and Joseph Bertolozzi, composer of “Bridge Music."

This performance is free and open to the public.

Join The Vanaver Caravan at the Morgan Library and Museum in NYC - for an audience participation performance featuring American clogging, square dancing, body percussion, modern dance, swing dance, and hoedowns set to Americana music. The exhibition Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song will be open for program attendees before and after the family program. This concert is made possible in part with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program.

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