16th Annual Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival (RAD Fest)

  • February 27 - March 3, 2025
  • Downtown Kalamazoo (Various)

    Kalamazoo, Michigan
Ticket Price $0.00-$53.65 Buy Tickets
Description

“RAD Fest puts western Michigan on the cultural map”

— Lauren Warnecke - artintercepts.org
 

TICKET INFORMATION

Tickets are available February 1st for all events. 

This year you can also reserve space at FREE events through the online box office.

We recommend that you view the schedule and plan out your RADFest experience before registering so you get the best deal. We do have multi-ticket discounts and we want you to take advantage of them. Plus, having all purchases on one transaction will likely be easier for you and for us!

Ticket prices:

  • Professional Performance Series tickets: General Admission= $32; Artist= $25; Youth/Student= $15
  • Youth Performance Series tickets: General Admission= $25; Youth/Student= $15
  • Masterclasses: $18
  • Kick-off party — FREE (Cash Bar)
  • Lunch and Learn — FREE (no lunch); $15 (includes boxed lunch)
  • Cocktail hour  — FREE (Cash Bar)
  • Afterglow – FREE (Cash Bar)
  • Screendance Premiere- $10
  • Additional Screendance Showings- FREE
  • Coffee Hour - FREE
  • Durational Artist Performance- FREE
  • Art Detectives- FREE
  • Community Dance Jam- FREE
  • Multi ticket discounts available
    • Buy 4 tickets to any performances/masterclasses and receive 5% off (applied at checkout)
    • Buy 6 tickets to any performances/masterclasses and receive 10% off (applied at checkout)
    • Buy 8 tickets to any performances/masterclasses and receive 15% off (applied at checkout)
       

Group discounts available for large groups. Please contact us for more information

For more information, including event descriptions, artist biographies and more, please visit our website

For questions about tickets, please email us or call 269.342.4354.

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

THURSDAY, FEB. 27

  • 5:30PM: RAD KICK-OFF PARTY
  • 5:30PM: INSTALLATION OPENING- Kayla Schiltgen
  • 7:00PM: MICHIGAN MADE PERFORMANCE w/pre-show experience and post show talk back

FRIDAY, FEB. 28

  • 8:00AM: AM MORNING MOVEMENT: Mindful Morning with Lynn Bowman
  • 10:30AM: MASTER CLASS 1: CONTEMPORARY DANCE... to Music of the Caribbean with Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón
  • 5:00PM: Screendance PREMIERE w/post show Producers Talk Back
  • 7:00PM: SHORT WORKS LIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES I 
  • 8:15PM: ALTERNATIVE SPACE PROGRAM with RE|dance group
  • 9:00PM: SHORT WORKS LIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES II

SATURDAY, MARCH 1

  • 8:00AM: AM MORNING MOVEMENT: Yoga Fusion with Julie Marie Muskat
  • 9:15AM: MASTER CLASS 2: Jazz/Contemporary Fusion with Elijah Alhadji Gibson
  • 9:15AM: MASTER CLASS 3: Explorative Videodance with Storm Stokes
  • 10:30AM: FAMILY ART DETECTIVES (All ages): Creative Movement with Wellspring Dance Academy
  • 10:45AM: MASTER CLASS 4: Contact Improvisation and Spontaneous Composition with Jacob & Jen
  • 10:45AM: MASTER CLASS 5: Improvisation with Halie Bahr
  • 12:30PM: LUNCH & LEARN: Vulnerability is Your Friend: Co-creating Robots with Dancers with Stephanie Miracle and collaborator
  • 2:00PM: COMMUNITY DANCE JAM
  • 3:15PM: DANCE FILM SCREENING
  • 5:00PM: SHORT WORKS LIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES III
  • 6:15PM: NETWORKING SOCIAL HOUR
  • 7:00PM: SHORT WORKS LIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES IV
  • 8:15PM: ALTERNATIVE SPACE PROGRAM with Stephanie Miracle
  • 9:00PM: SHORT WORKS LIVE ENCORE PERFORMANCE
  • 10:15PM: AFTER-GLOW RECEPTION 
     

SUNDAY, MARCH 2

  • 8:30AM: AM MORNING MOVEMENT: Countertechnique with Kelsey Paschich
  • 10:00AM: COFFEE HOUR DISCUSSION
  • 10:00AM: MASTER CLASS 6: House: Rhythms and Techniques with Snack Break Movement Arts
  • 10:00AM: MASTER CLASS 7: Contemporary Floorwork with Anna Pinault
  • 11:30AM: MASTER CLASS 8: Contemporary Jazz with Monique Haley
  • 1:00PM:  DANCE FILM SCREENING
  • 2:30PM: YOUTH PERFORMANCE I
  • 4:00PM:  DANCE FILM SCREENING
  • 4:30PM: YOUTH PERFORMANCE II

 

This event is proudly supported by:

  • The Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo
  • Discover Kalamazoo
  • The Irving S. Gilmore Foundation
  • The Kalamazoo Community Foundation
  • The Kalamazoo Cultural Center
  • The Michigan Arts and Culture Council
  • Millennium Restaurant Group
  • The National Endowment for the Arts
  • Now Kalamazoo
  • Underground Printing
  • WMUK

 

As well as by:

  • Artisan Sandwich Company
  • Biggby Coffee
  • Caffe Casa
  • Costco
  • HUB Tavern + Grill
  • KP Cinemas
  • Trader Joe's
Date & Time

Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2025

Venue Details

Downtown Kalamazoo (Various)

Kalamazoo, Michigan Downtown Kalamazoo (Various)
Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers

Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers exists to offer a unique and authentic voice in modern dance which serves to inspire, engage and educate our community.

Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers is a 501c3 nonprofit organization


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