Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company Presents Summer Mix
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Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company announces Summer Mix from July 16–19, 2026 at Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 West State, MLK, Jr. St., Ithaca, NY 14850. Performances: July 16 at 2pm and 7pm, July 17 at 7pm, July 18 at 2pm and 7pm, and July 19 at 2pm. Tickets are $35 ($20 for students) and can be purchased at https://kitchentheatre.app.getcuebox.com/o/HCB2P8DT/shows/KXS6L41C.
Summer Mix, an accessible, entertaining program of dance, combines the old with the new, a visual playlist bringing together favorites from the repertory with a premiere. The mix includes joyful excerpts from the Company’s acclaimed evening-length theatrical dance Encore, which premiered at New York City’s Joyce SoHo in 2007 and has never fallen out of the repertory. Each performance will be followed by a brief conversation with the Company, offering audiences the opportunity to engage directly with the dancers and choreographer.
“The dancers can’t help but smile,” wrote The New Yorker reviewing the show. "It's great to see imaginative dancing to music like this," wrote The Village Voice. Backstage called the work "a riotous piece of razzle-dazzle entertainment."
The new work, Flashpoint, was developed during an invitation-only residency at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC during the summer or 2024. Flashpoint explores the contours of relationships, the push and pull of harmony and strife within our lives, and the lines separating intimacy from violence. The dance traces the contours of relationships, exposing moments that pivot on a dime and ignite into conflict, a metaphor for the tensions and drama playing out in our world.
Like a sultry summer storm, the program moves through darkness and sun, turbulence and clear skies, all anchored by the Company's signature blend of provocative choreography and charismatic performance: virtuosic and pedestrian movement, intimate partnering, a playful musical spirit, and vivid expression. Summer Mix has something for everyone, the program that summer calls for!
Link to trailer: https://vimeo.com/1188909360
ABOUT DANIEL GWIRTZMAN DANCE COMPANY
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, known for its optimistic ethos, was formed in 1998. Since its inception, it has demonstrated a commitment to education, operating with the philosophy and programming that everyone can join the dance. Incorporating dance and story into the film medium has been a consistent practice along with creating original programming for the stage. The repertory has earned praise for its humor, musicality, stylistic diversity, and accessibility. The Company’s acclaimed creation, Dance With Us, a free online educational resource, received leadership support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and is designed to demystify choreography and increase comfort viewing and speaking about dance. The digital resource showcases the Company’s decade-long practice working in the dance for camera genre. Lincoln Center and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presented the Company in 2023 during its 25th Anniversary season in a stand-alone program called Everybody Can Dance. In the summer of 2024, DGDC was in residence at the American Dance Festival where it developed its newest evening-length dance, Flashpoint. In 2025, the Company’s AI-themed theater/dance work e-Motion, a collaboration with playwright Saviana Stanescu, made its NYC premiere at La MaMa during the La MaMa Moves! Festival, which Culturebot reviewed as “profoundly chilling,” noting Daniel’s performance as “masterful.” Also in 2025, Framing Ménerbes, a film created by the Company in Provence, premiered in France, followed by its US premiere at the Dolby Screening Room in Manhattan. Since then, the film has screened in theaters in Upstate New York—Binghamton, Ithaca, and Rochester—and in Ann Arbor, MI and Vancouver, WA. The film will screen again in Ithaca this June 17. Other highlights include performances at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Kennedy Center, Battery Dance Festival, Fire Island Dance Festival, Bryant Park, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Jazz at Lincoln Center.
ABOUT DANIEL GWIRTZMAN
Daniel Gwirtzman begins his fourth decade as a NYC company director and choreographer in 2026. Since co-founding Artichoke Dance Company in 1995, “a welcome addition to the New York Dance scene” (The New York Times), he has choreographed and performed without pause. Reviews from Artichoke’s debut concert earned him comparisons to Mark Morris, by Elizabeth Zimmer in The Village Voice, whose company he toured internationally with over several years as a guest. An artist/scholar, Daniel Gwirtzman is deeply immersed in multiple arenas, as a producer, dancer, educator, and filmmaker known for his blend of innovative and charismatic work. Collaborations blend genres, take risks, involve communities, promote optimism, and celebrate humanity. The New Yorker and The Village Voice describe him as “a choreographer of high spirits and skill,” and “an abundantly inventive artist with a subtle defiance of gender roles.” The New York Times writes “Mr. Gwirtzman does know that in dance less can be more. He can evoke strong feelings with a few gestures.” He has been awarded commissions, residencies, and fellowships nationally and abroad. He is an Associate Professor of Dance at Ithaca College’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance and contributes nationally to the dance education field through his service as a Board Member of the National Dance Education Organization and as Chair of the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Alumni Board, his alma mater. In the spring of 2024, he was in residence at the Dora Maar Cultural Center in Provence, France where he produced the dance film Framing Ménerbes, for which he directed, choreographed, edited, and performed. A dozen participants from the region joined as performers in this feature-length film which celebrates the beauty of the body and illuminates the inspiration to produce art.
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