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✨MEET OUR NEWEST CHOREOGRAPHER✨

Welcome our newest KODA Contemporary Ballet Choreographer setting a solo piece for our upcoming premiere performance; The Opening Act. Premiering at the MATCH in downtown Houston August 8th at 7pm! Ticket link in bio. If you would like to know more about any of our extremely talented choreographers/dancers head over to our website at kodacontemporaryballet.com

ANDREA DAWN SHELLEY
Andrea Dawn Shelley, a native of Miami, Florida,received her classical ballet training predominantly from Magdalena Maury and Magda G. Auñon. She studied dance at the University of South Florida under Gretchen Ward Warren and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance Education from Florida International University. Andrea has danced with Southern Ballet Theatre, Maximum Dance Company, Miami Contemporary Dance Company, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, State Street Balletand iMEE. She is a Co-Founding Director of iMEE Dance Company, est. 2009. As a choreographer, Shelley has created original works commissioned by dance companies and festivals such as: iMEE, Ballet Florida, Miami Contemporary Dance Company, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, State Street Ballet, Ad Deum Dance Company, The Dance Gallery Festival / Level UP, palcoscenico danza, METdance, Island Moving Co., the black box INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL THEATRE & DANCE, Festival Ballet Providence, Bellingham Repertory Dance, 16th Annual Mid-Atlantic Choreographic Showcase, Houston Contemporary Dance Company and Vitacca Ballet. Her choreographic works have been presented throughout the United States, Mexico and Europe.

Fun Fact: Andrea is an animal advocate for the release and rehabilitation of cetaceans in captivity. “Don’t buy a ticket!” taken in Houston, Texas by @adshelley

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concept / design Jose Delgado

#sunriseshoot #calendarshoot
#miamibeach #16thstreet #throwback #pointeshoesandchiffon #ballet taken in Miami Beach, Florida by @adshelley

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project design / concept Jose Delgado

#sunriseshoot #calendarshoot
#miamibeach #16thstreet #throwback #pointeshoesandchiffon #ballet taken in Miami Beach, Florida by @adshelley

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project concept / design Jose Delgado

#sunriseshoot #calendarshoot
#miamibeach #16thstreet #throwback #alma #sol #silohuettes #pointeshoesandchiffon #ballet taken in Miami Beach, Florida by @adshelley

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🅜🅞🅥🅔 🅦🅘🅣🅗 ⓂⒺ
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𝙰𝚍𝚟 𝙱 𝙰 𝙻 𝙻 𝙴 𝚃 10-11:30
Institute of Contemporary Dance HTX
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Foto courtesy of Leslie Artis

#ballet #wednesdayballet @icdancehtx #movewithme #openclass #houstoncontemporarydancecompany
#icdancehtx #houdance #houstontx taken in Institute of Contemporary Dance in Houston by @adshelley

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SMITHWORKS OPENING NIGHT // Thank you Houston!

Opening night was a “celebration of Houston-grown talent making waves across the global stage.
Curated under the visionary guidance of Artistic Director Kelly Ann Vitacca, SMITHWORKS pays homage to one of Houston’s brightest artistic exports—Garrett Smith.” ~ Houston Style Magazine

We loved sharing the evening with our friends, sponsors, colleagues, and fellow Houston companies + artists. Thank you to everyone that joined us!

Don’t miss tonight’s final performance of SMITHWORKS at 7:30pm at the Hobby Center.

Artists of @vitaccaballet
Images: @lynnlanephotography
#celebration #houstondance #houstonartscene #dance #texasart #ballet by @adshelley

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“Statuesque HCDC dancer Avery Moore shone in this solemn and dramatic work highlighting the stigma-enforced silence surrounding pregnancy loss. Dressed initially in an austere high-collared frock occasionally used to envelop her face, her character’s pain, shame and quiet defiance are palpable. Flanked by a trio of dancers Shelley’s program notes name “the eternals,” — unseen, present and “too precious to forget” — Moore transitions to a black slip dress. She draws fleeting strength and comfort from these eternals, yet her arms, anguish and isolation seem to subtly reference Pavlova’s Dying Swan.

Moore and dancer Dwain Travis, an effectively menacing, robed “antagonist,” pass through and around a single, mobile set piece — a framed pair of white pocket doors designed by Ryan McGettigan. They occasionally move in uncomfortable silence between musical selections which range from Francois Chopin to Bach to Phillip Glass. Shelley has expertly woven prerecorded music with an exquisite live performance by violinist Elise Haukenes, who completed her Master of Music at Rice University and now plays with The Phoenix Symphony. Haukenes is also a trained dancer and it shows in her haunting interactions with Moore on stage. A recitation of the 1934 poem “Immortality” by Clare Harner interjects the comforting reminder that the deceased live on in the natural world around us but, as Shelley chooses to recloak and literally close the door on Moore, she suggests women are forced still to take this comfort, along with their suffering, in silence.” - Nichelle Suzanne Strzepek

April 18, 2025 - Dance Source Houston / “Commanding the Stage: Women Choreographers Lead in HCDC’s “Resolve”

📷Amitava Sakar, courtesy of Houston Contemporary Dance Company

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‘Forget Me Not’

Avery Moore
accompanied by
Dwain Travis as the antagonist

Dominic Askew
Tamia Bradford
Dylan Croy as the eternals

featuring
Elise Haukenes, Violinist

“Things unseen are eternal. Though gone, your presence remains, too precious to forget.” taken in Hobby Center For The Performing Arts by @adshelley

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‘Forget Me Not’ continued…

Avery Moore
accompanied by
Dwain Travis as the antagonist

Dominic Askew
Tamia Bradford
Dylan Croy as the eternals

featuring
Elise Haukenes, Violinist

“Things unseen are eternal. Though gone, your presence remains, too precious to forget.”

R E S O L V E
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@houstoncontemporary
Hobby Center, Zilkha Hall taken in Hobby Center For The Performing Arts by @adshelley

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‘Forget Me Not’ - April 12, 2025
#continued #reimagined #extension #restage #forgetmenot #aportraitofgrief #support #whatcouldhavebeen
#miscarriageawareness #shatteringthetaboo
#adschoreography #dancetheatre #houstoncontemporarydancecompany by @adshelley

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indecision, desire, acceptance

#herandshe #MelanieandLotte
#adschoreography #dancetheatre
#iMEEDanceCompany #iMEEalltheway

Fotos Roi LeMay - iMEE by @adshelley

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“I felt that my body had been taken away from me because there were all these people surrounding me, expressing their opinions. My body wasn’t mine, I had to regain it back.”

Miscarriage is often stigmatized and considered to be taboo. Many women avoid open discussion of their loss.
Predominant emotions in women after miscarriage are self-blame, shame and guilt. Breaking the silence and shattering the taboo surrounding pregnancy loss is paramount.

#forgetmenot #aportraitofgrief
#miscarriageawareness #shatteringthetaboo
#adschoreography #dancetheatre #houstoncontemporarydancecompany

Fotos Lynn Lane - courtesy of Houston Contemporary Dance Company taken in Zilkha Hall, Hobby Center by @adshelley

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AUGUST 18, 2023

TOKI has died.
She has surrendered.
We have failed her.

#captivitykills #endceteceancaptivity #riplolita #riptokitae by @adshelley

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