Current and Upcoming Company Work
MONARCH
MONARCH uses the life cycle of a monarch butterfly to explore themes of immigration, loss, transformation, longing, the beauty of life, separation, and ultimately hope. MONARCH asks us to reflect on the balance of the natural world and the anxiety and fear in today’s political climate. Where is the hope? Who do we turn to? How do we protect the most vulnerable in our community?
MONARCH is a full-length dance production featuring a cast of Keshet community members: Keshet Dance Company professional dancers, KP3 (Keshet Pre-Professional Students), adult dancers, young dancers ages 10+, and all levels and abilities who want to dance with us.
Premieres November 20-22, 2026 at Keshet Center for the Arts
Tickets $0-$40
Tickets on sale October 2026!
Photo by François Achan
Tarrion
Keshet Dance Company New Works presents: Tarrion, a collaboration between choreographer and Keshet Company Dancer Ana Lopes Aréchiga and Albuquerque-based multimedia composer Zachariah Julian. Tarrion was born from an intense two-week collaborative process during the 2025 Hear Here Festival at Keshet. Left feeling like there was more to explore, the creators expanded into a full-length standalone work.
Set on the dancers of Keshet Dance Company, Tarrion is a visceral experience, a visually and aurally exquisite evening-length contemporary dance work that explores concepts of humanity, energy, forces of nature, and the essence/experience of inconclusiveness. Tarrion magnifies opportunities to evaluate our connection in and between bodies and spaces.
Join us in our idiosyncratic world of Tarrion.
April 10-11, 2026 at Keshet Center for the Arts
Zachariah Julian and Keshet Dance Company, Photo by Daniel Ramírez
MOVEMENT FOR MERCY
New Mexico Preview, November 8-9, 2025 | Los Angeles Premiere, November 15, 2025 | Las Cruces Performance, December 7, 2025
Keshet Dance Company’s newest iteration of Movement for Mercy, a contemporary dance performance examining & re-imagining US juvenile justice systems co-created by collaborating artists inside and outside of prison walls. This production is in active repertory, and is available for touring throughout 2026 and 2027. Please contact us if you are interested in bringing Movement for Mercy to your community!
Movement for Mercy is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, support from the State of New Mexico Economic Development Departments Creative Industries Division, and in partnership with the Arts for Healing and Justice Network and Project Knucklehead.