Baltimore’s Full Circle Dance Company is known for digging deeply into a single theme each year, bringing together diverse choreographers to explore the theme from multiple angles. In 2024, the theme is power. Full Circle’s “Season of Power” will include community workshops and performances from October 1, 2024, through February 2, 2025. 

“What we love,” said Full Circle Dance Company Artistic Director Donna L. Jacobs, “is the richness of this topic. There are so many facets of power to explore. We are interested in how power works in our daily lives, how it has shaped history, and in the transcendent power of dance to impact our communities, our artists, and our audience.” 

A highlight of the project is Jacobs’s creative collaboration with acclaimed indigo dyer and multi-disciplinary artist Kibibi Ajanku and composer/recording artist Jasmin “Jazzo” Walters. The resulting new work draws on the history of indigo, its connections to slavery, and its spiritual value within the African Diaspora and in Baltimore. An original score by Walters honors this history as well as the power of art to lift us, to connect us, and to make change. Eight dancers will perform Jacobs’s eclectic and deeply personal choreography, which blends multiple dance traditions to evoke a layered story. Ajanku’s original costume designs, each a work of art, will reflect her unique, historically and indigenously informed practice. 

Season Headline Event: 

“From the Source of Our Power”

November 3, 2024, Baltimore Museum of Art

Headlining the season is “From the Source of Our Power,” to be presented in two performances on November 3 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. New and repertoire works will explore not only physical strength and energy, but also social, political, and historical power. The show will include the premieres of all new works commissioned by Full Circle Dance Company in 2024. Collaborations with local designers and musical artists will make “From the Source of Our Power” a true celebration of Baltimore-based interdisciplinary innovation. 

Full Circle Dance Company Presents 

From the Source of Our Power

Sunday, November 3 at 2:30 pm and 6:30 pm

Baltimore Museum of Art

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore MD 21218

Tickets: $25 general, $15 students

fullcircledancecompany.org

Full Circle Dance Company was founded in 2000 by Donna L. Jacobs. From its inception, Full Circle has been committed to presenting diverse stories, tackling real-world issues, and creating technically excellent work that engages and moves a broad audience.

In addition to performing frequently throughout Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia, Full Circle has performed by invitation in Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Arizona, and Tennessee. Venues have included Baltimore Artscape Festival, Baltimore Museum of Art, Tempe Center for the Arts (AZ), Broadway Dance Center (NY), Ohio University, Wesleyan University (CT), Dance Place (Wash DC), and many others.

Since 2004, Full Circle has developed a signature method for creating and presenting work. Selecting one issue to explore deeply each year, the company commissions up to seven choreographers, inviting each to explore the issue from any angle. The resulting works—thematically united but reflecting diverse approaches and perspectives—are presented together, inviting audiences to engage with difficult challenges in new ways. Tackling such complicated issues as race, religion, body image, gender, and more, Full Circle’s yearlong choreography projects have received both local and national attention.

Full Circle Dance Company is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization (Baltimore, MD | EIN: 47-5593783).