Ignite

Bruce Wood Dance presents IGNITE

Friday, June 12 at 8:00 PM 

Saturday, June 13 at 8:00 PM 

Sunday, June 14 at 2:00 PM 

Moody Performance Hall 

Close out Season 16 with Ignite – a high-voltage collision of dance, visual art, and raw creative force. This finale isn’t just a performance. It’s a full-body experience. 

Featuring three electrifying works by some of the most inventive voices in dance today, Ignite brings together the heat of Bruce Wood’s sensual choreography, the dreamlike elegance of Jessica Lang, and a genre-bending world premiere that fuses movement, mural, and cutting-edge projection design. 

Bruce Wood’s Zero Hour is all slow burn and sharp edges. Set to the pulsing tango rhythms of Astor Piazzolla, this beloved work smolders with passion, seduction, and grounded physicality. It’s Wood at his most magnetic—visceral, refined, and unforgettable. 

Jessica Lang’s To Familiar Spaces in Dream invites you into an intimate, meditative world of memory and transformation. Hailed by The Washington Post for her “richly woven vocabulary of movement,” Lang (Resident Choreographer of Pacific Northwest Ballet) crafts a work that’s both emotionally resonant and visually spellbinding. With her signature blend of clarity, lyricism, and nuance, she builds a dreamscape where time folds in on itself and the past lingers just beneath the surface. 

The world premiere of Move is a bold, genre-defying collaboration between Artistic Director Joy Bollinger, visual artist JM Rizzi, and projection mapping artist Courtney Ware of LightWare Labs. Together, they reimagine the stage as a living canvas where choreography collides with massive murals and immersive digital art. This is dance without boundaries. 

As Dallas lights up with the energy of the FIFA World Cup, Ignite offers a different kind of electricity—one that sparks the imagination, expands what dance can be, and leaves you lit from within. 

Stick around after the show for Curtain Chats—a chance to connect with the artists and go deeper into the work. 

Approximate run time: 90 minutes, including two intermissions. 

Bruce Wood Dance Dallas programs and events are made possible in part by the following sponsors: Heritage Auctions (HA.com), City of Dallas Office of Arts+Culture, Texas Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Halperin Foundation, James Lynn Williams, Patricia Kozak, The Eugene McDermott Foundation, TACA, James Avery Artisan Jewelry, Michael Keller+Rodger Kobes, Generations of Giving Foundation, Donna Wilhelm Family Fund, Phil Clemmons+Herb Weichsel, E. Fay Jones Conservancy, Lancaster+Associates, Inc., Communities Foundation of Texas, Texas Commission on the Arts/Cultural District Project, Carrington Coleman, and Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District.