IGNITE

Bruce Wood Dance Dallas 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 

Bringing Season 16 to a rousing close, IGNITE  features three electrifying works from some of the most inventive voices in dance today. From the dreamlike elegance of Jessica Lang’s To Familiar Spaces in Dream  (Dallas premiere), to the heat and sensuality of Bruce Wood’s Zero Hour, to the genre-bending world premiere collaboration between Artistic Director/Resident Choreographer Joy Bollinger, world renowned gestural expressionist JM Rizzi, and cutting-edge projection designer Courtney Ware, this high-voltage finale is a full-body experience that fuses movement, visual art, and raw creative force. 

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. 

The Dallas premiere of 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, E. Fay Jones Conservancy, Lancaster+Associates, Inc., Communities Foundation of Texas, Texas Commission on the Arts/Cultural District Project, Carrington Coleman, Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District, and Trace Element.