3rd Law Dance Theater

Our vision is to build a company that is known for creating unique, original dance/theater works of extraordinary excellence, and to present them on a national stage.

3rd Law Dance/Theater creates narratively-structured, evening-length concerts and site-specific performance pieces that demonstrate our passionate belief in the power of live, in-the-moment art to transport audiences through affect and intellect in ways impossible with other art forms.

This award-winning company builds “mesmerizing” and “striking” dance performances—a vision that merges a powerful, energetic bodily idiom with a thoughtful and personal spirit. We conceive, design and present provocative, entertaining performances that engage the viewer and create a magical space for our audience, a space that transports them for the evening to a place outside of the here and now.

We are adept at addressing serious subject matter with a witty and droll style—creating a unique and exciting brand of performance: dramatic soundscapes, moving imagery, thoughtful and engaging narration, vivid and imaginative costuming and lighting. We invent athletic, gesture-based movement embodied in new, distinctive vocabularies.

The company draws on every theatrical device and scheme to entrance its audience and create that magical space, and we collaborate with electronic media, visual and theatrical artists to extend our reach. The directors have been granted the “Cutting Edge” Award of the Colorado Dance Alliance for “innovative and creative use of twenty-first century artistic and technological tools in dance.”

Every year the company is seen by thousands of audience members in settings as expansive as Denver Botanic Gardens, the Byron Theater, and the Jones Theater at Denver Center for the Performing Art, and as intimate as the Emmanuel Gallery at Auraria Campus. 3rd Law has appeared to acclaim at the National Performing Arts Convention and has collaborated with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
 
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