# Intersections (arts festival)

The cross cultural arts festival known as INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival is a music, theater and dance festival held annually in Washington, D.C.

## Description

It is held on the weekends around the spring equinox. All performances are presented within the restored Atlas Performing Arts Center in D.C. The festival consists of 12 days of performing and visual arts celebrating the diversity, energy and excellence of artists and audiences from Washington, D.C. and beyond.
The subtitle for the festival is “Where Arts Merge and Cultures Meet.”
It was conceived and established in 2010 under the guidance of Jane Lang, and was curated by Mary Hall Surface, who continues to serve as the Festival Artistic Director. Major support for INTERSECTIONS is provided by the FIRE Fund of The Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, designed to promote interracial understanding and collaboration.

## 2010 Festival

Over 60 people, groups, and organizations performed during the first festival, held in 2010. The official list includes: "The President's Own" US Marine Chamber Orchestra String Ensemble Arena Stage Arena Stage’s Voices of Now Mentor Ensemble Capital City Symphony and the Young Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Christylez Bacon Tom Chapin Adele Robey Anastasia Robinson Andy Fahs Beny Blaq BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company Capital Jazz Project Carlos César Rodriguez Charles Williams Children of the Gospel Children's Chorus of Washington and Glorystar Children's Chorus Chris Youstra City Dance Ensemble Coyaba Dance Theater David Crowley David Emerson Toney
DCypher Dance Ekene Okobi Folger Shakespeare Library GALA Hispanic Theatre God's Miracles Gospel Quintet Holly Bass Imani James Foster, Jr. Jason Garcia Ignacio Jay Walkers John Hurd Kathleen Gonzales Kevin Reese Kim Roberts Levine School of Music Lulu Fall Marva Hicks National Children's Museum Northeast Senior Singers and the Delta Players Og Ceol Oran Sandel Peter Dimuro Peter Joshua Burroughs Reverb Sami Miranda SpeakeasyDC Step Afrika! Steven Roberts Sticky Mulligan Symphony Space Tappers with Attitude The Extension Agents The Joy of Motion Dance Center Theater Alliance Tom Teasley Trio Grabielismo Urban Artistry Vertical Voices Playback Theatre Wale Liniger Washington Performing Arts Society Washington Savoyards Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Word-Beat

## 2011 Festival

Over 50 people and groups performed during the festival in 2011. A partial list includes:
Adventure Theatre African Continuum Theatre Company AirBorne! DC and Zip Zap Circus USA Arena Stage's Voices of Now Mentor Ensemble BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company Capital City Symphony City at Peace DC Collide-O-Scope Music Coyaba Dance Theater & Urban Artistry DCypher Dance The Delta Players and the Northeast Senior Singers The Dinner Party Dissonance Dance Theatre Factory 449: a theatre collective Pablo Grabiel Trio Caliente Furia Flamenca Gibraltar Matthew Hemerlein Imani The In Series Cecilia Esquivel Jenifer Deal Jose Caceres Jane Franklin Dance Joy of Motion Dance Center Angela Kariotis Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble Mosaic Harmony Community Choir & Ralph Herdon and Tradition Nasar Abadey and Supernova Not What You Think New Galaxy Theatre Group Quest Reverb Anastasia Robinson Peter Burroughs Carlos César Rodriguez Scena Theatre Kevin Reese Sidwell Friends School Dance Ensemble Silk Road Dance Company Six Impossible Things SpeakeasyDC The Spilling Ink Project Split This Rock Step Afrika! Sulu DC & Holly Bass Performance Projects Theater of the First Amendment Paige Hernandez
Vertical Voices Playback Theatre Washington Ballet and the In Series Word Dance Theater Dianne Falk Tom Teasley

## 2012 Festival

Over 50 people and groups were scheduled to perform during the 2012 festival. A partial list includes: alight dance theater, DancEthos, & Glade Dance Collective Adventure Theatre & Jazz Academy of Music Arena Stage's Voices of Now Mentor Ensemble Rachel Ann Cross DC Area Playwrights’ Group DCypher Dance Dance Exchange's Teen Exchange & SYMAL's Youth Arts Ensemble The Delta Players & Northeast Senior Singers with Ford's Theatre Duke Ellington School of the Arts Stephen Lang Tom Teasley Folger Poets Tom Goss & Potomac Fever Holloway Youth Project Hueman Prophets Illstyle and Peace Productions presented by Dance Place Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour New Galaxy Theatre Group Not What You Think Quest Visual Theatre Shange Dance Productions Sidwell Friends School Dance Ensemble Source Festival
SpeakeasyDC
Split This Rock National Gallery of Art & DC Youth Poetry Slam Team Take Flight Productions Vertical Voices & Synergy in Action Playback Theatre Companies Young Playwrights' Theater & Holloway Youth Project Christylez Bacon B-Fly Entertainment Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra Bowen McCauley Dance Capital City Symphony Public Displays of Motion Dissonance Dance Theatre Great Noise Ensemble Harmonious Blacksmith The In Series Jane Franklin Dance Just Tap Rorschach Theatre Jon Spelman with Tina Chancey Vivre Musicale & Full Circle Dance Co. Zip Zap Circus USA / Airborne DC!
Samia Mahbub Ahmad BodyMoves Contemporary Dance Company Charles H. Clyburn DC Swing! Furia Flamenca Imani Kennedy String Quartet Library of Congress presents The Saiyuki Trio with Rudresh Mahanthappa Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble Nasar Abadey and Supernova Reverb & Euphonism Spilling Ink Project & Srishti Dances of India