Castle Hill Presents the 13th Annual Provincetown Dance Festival

Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill is excited to announce the 13th Annual Provincetown Dance Festival. The performances will take place on June 22nd and 23rd at the Provincetown Theater at 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown at 7:30pm. The 2018 line-up includes seven dance companies or solo artists who celebrate the broad landscape of today's national dance scene. Performances will include classical Indian, tap, ballet, hip-hop and contemporary.

This year's festival is dedicated to the memory of Samuel A. Miller, who for many decades was one of New England's most influential forces in dance. Among his many accomplishments, Miller served as Director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and Executive Director of both the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He founded the National Dance Project and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. Miller spent some of nearly every summer on the Outer Cape

The festival includes new artists representing the leading edge in contemporary dance. This includes three works by some of today's next generation of contemporary dance creators, including a duet by Gisela Creus and Danielle Davidson, a work by Pavement Dance, and a work by the dynamic solo artist, Dion Pratt. Returning this year is audience favorite CaseClosed!, a youth oriented dance troupe Directed by Sokeo Ros. Ros mentors and collaborates to realize works that fuse his Cambodian cultural roots with hip-hop and contemporary dance.

This year the new dance company, City Ballet Boston will perform as part of its introduction to the New England dance community. Orlando Hernandes, a tap artist from Providence, RI will also be joining the festival for the first time this year. Also new to the festival is classical Indian artist from Boston, Mouli Pal. Along with being a supremely accomplished classical artist, Pal performs works with a unique contemporary perspective on the great legacy of classical Indian dance.

"This year is special in many ways. I am very excited that we will be introducing five artists in Provincetown for the first time," said festival Artistic Director, Adam Miller. Tickets can be purchased at www.provincetowntheater.org and more information can be found at www.castlehill.org/events-1.