Core Dance
Current Season
Core Dance's 2026-27 Season celebrates a diverse array of offerings, including Screen Dance, live performance, artist residencies, developing projects in the United States and abroad, community events, and classes.
Throughout the season, Core Dance continues its work as a leading center and laboratory for the creation, development, investigation, and dissemination of dance and movement-based art forms.
2026-27 Season Highlights
LIFT: Artist Led Artist in Residence
Core Dance's Artist Led Artist in Residence Program, LIFT, supports artists through validation, promotion, uninterrupted studio time, project support, and public discourse.
This season, Core Dance welcomes Atlanta-based artists:
Versaille Jones | July 25 - November 1
Jodie Jernigan | September 21 - December 7
Alex Spitzer | January 26 - March 20
Morning Class
Core Dance's Morning Class returns for the 2026–27 Season, offering opportunities to move, learn, and connect with a diverse group of teaching artists.
Fall instructors include Jodie Jernigan, Luciana Arias, and Kristin O'Neal, with a series of pre-season classes led by Kristin O'Neal taking place in August.
REEL Art
Throughout the season, Core Dance's REEL Art Series brings Screen Dance to Decatur Square through video and film installations presented in the storefront windows of Core Dance Studios. The 2026-27 Series will feature seven films by 12
different artists, with a special screening and conversation with filmmaker Cherie Carson in March 2027.
Participating artists include, Adam Larsen, Sue Schroeder, Lonnie Holley, Ethan Payne, Matt Arnett, Polly Motley, Molly Davies, Kate Weare, George Long, Cherie Carson, Erika Senft Miller, and Kelly Holt.
enCore Dance on Film
The 13th edition of enCore Dance on Film premieres May 1, 2027, and continues through August 31, 2027. Featuring short films by dance filmmakers from around the world, enCore Dance on Film explores the interplay between dance and the techniques of filmmaking, investigating the possibilities and boundaries of Screen Dance.
Films will screen nightly on our windows in Decatur Square from dusk until midnight.
Our 2027 Film Adjudicators
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Deane McQueen (United Kingdom)
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Christian Meyer (Germany)
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Amanda K. Miller (United States)
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Negar Tahsili (Iran)
1830EST: Artists Talk
1830EST: Artists Talk invites viewers to explore art-making practices through the lens of working artists and their creativity.
Each episode assembles multiple viewpoints through interviews, field recordings, soundscapes, and stories representing the diverse creative practitioners within the Core Dance global landscape.
This season, Core Dance Artistic Director Sue Schroeder will be joined by:
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Jeff Arnal with Dietrich Eichmann
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Lonnie Holley, Ethan Payne & Matt Arnett
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Jodie Jernigan
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Lucy Suggate & Charlie Ford
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Kate Weare
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Lisa Harris
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Cherie Carson
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Erika Senft Miller & Kelly Holt
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Versaille Jones
Developing New Work
Alongside Core Dance's public programs, the 2026–27 Season includes the continued development of new projects and films.
Access Point & echo
Sue Schroeder and Adam Larsen will continue developing and filming two full-length projects in locations across the United States.
Braiding Time, Memory and Water
Originally commissioned by Atlanta's Flux Projects during the Core Dance 2024–25 Season, Sue Schroeder's Braiding Time, Memory and Water will be realized in two European locations: the Czech Republic and Austria.
2026-27 Season Programs
1830EST: Artists Talk
Intimate Conversations with Artists about Art
1830EST: Artists Talk offers an online forum to explore art-making practices through the lens of working artists and their creativity.Each episode assembles multiple viewpoints and includes interviews, field recordings, soundscapes and stories representing the diverse creative practitioners within the Core Dance global landscape. 1830EST: Artists Talk was initiated in 2021 to cultivate community in response to the pandemic, when live experiences were not possible. The ongoing pandemic disrupted the rhythms of everyday life, prompting us to reconfigure how we connect, communicate, and work together.
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Artists in Residence
laboratory for creation, development & investigation
Core Dance initiated the Artist in Residence Spring 2023 with Israeli Artists, Maya Gelfman and Roie Avidan/Mind The Heart! Project, followed in 2023-24 Season with Nadya Zeitlan (US - Atlanta), Natalia Chylińska & Katarzyna Pastuszak (Poland) & Nicolo Giorgini & Marco Casagrande (Italy), in 2024-25 Season with Fly On A Wall (US – Atlanta), Bára Látalová (Czech Republic) and Joshua Gilyard (US – Atlanta), and in 2025-26 Season with collective Cie Pieds Perchés, Faith Fidgeon & Isa Newport, and Sarah Turquety.
Core Dance welcomes Versaille Jones, Jodie Jernigan, and Alex Spitzer for the 2026-27 Season.
REEL Art
Video Technology + Installation Art
REEL Art is a platform for original film installations - a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art - making use of the storefront windows of Core Dance’s studio building. Coupled with all aspects of the surrounding environment of the Decatur Square, passersby/the audience are affected by this ingenious visual experience. As an installation, this work is unique in its use and design for the Core Dance Studio windows.
enCore: Dance on Film
Re- Constructing the Dancing Body: Screen Dance & the ever-fluid definition of Place & Time
enCore: Dance on Film features short movies by dance filmmakers from around the world. These screenings are free and open to the public. Screened annually since 2014, enCore: Dance on Film presents a selection of fascinating independent Screen Dance productions and serves as a platform for films which picture dance exclusively for, and with, the camera.
Showcasing annually since 2014, for enCore: Dance on Film 2026, 73 submissions were received from 24 different countries with 14 final selections.
inside:out
Sharing Space in the Virtual Realm
inside:out features the programs and productions of Core Dance in the form of video installations. Screening on the Core Dance storefront windows on the Decatur Square, inside:out offers the public a glimpse inside the creative process and the resulting art work that is created from within Core Dance.
Morning Class at Core
Cultivating Community through Affordable Classes
Led by established, progressive dance artists, Morning Class is Core Dance’s offering of low-cost classes and workshops for the community. Morning Class offers the opportunity to experience an Artist/Core Dance Faculty's movement practices, investigations and histories. Classes may include somatic, improvisation, and movement technique classes. If dance experience is recommended, it is denoted on the class webpage.
