The Midwest RADFest is hosted and supported by Southwest Michigan's oldest professional dance company, Wellspring-Cori Terry and Dancers. The festival is a juried event held in downtown Kalamazoo with most events scheduled at the Epic Center. The festival features the best in modern, post-modern, and contemporary dance from all over the world. RADFest offers emerging, professional, and experimental artists the opportunity to present their work without financial commitment; while including opportunities for professional development, master classes, lectures, discussion panels, and networking events.
RADFest 2025 will present live stage performance, installation and alternative space works, a Screendance film series, master classes, workshops, a mediated discussion group, youth showcase, and several different networking opportunities for artists and patrons. Selected artists receive a presenting stipend and opportunity to apply for lodging assistance. All artists receive promotional and media coverage. Additionally, RADFest offers audience development events; open rehearsals, Q and A sessions, open lectures, and interactive performances.
Schedule of Events:
08:00 am - 09:00 am: AM Morning Movement - Julie Marie Muskat: Yoga Fusion - Judy Jolliffe Theater
09:15 am - 10:30 am: Master Class 2 - Elijah Alhadji Gibson: Jazz-Contemporary fusion - Judy Jolliffe Theater
09:15 am - 10:30 am: Master Class 3 - Storm Stokes: Explorative - Videodance Ballet Kalamazoo
10:45 am - 12:00 pm: Master Class 4 - Jacob and Jen: Contact Improvisation and Spontaneous Composition - Judy Jolliffe Theater
10:45 am - 12:00 pm: Master Class 5 - Improvisation with Halie Bahr Ballet Kalamazoo
10:30 am: Art Detectives and Wellspring Creative Movement partnership Kalamazoo Institute of Art
12:30 pm - 02:00 pm: Lunch and Learn - Vulnerability is Your Friend: CoCreating Robots with Dancers w- Stephanie Miracle and collaborators - Kalamazoo Pubic Library- Central
03:15 pm: Dance Film Screening - KP Cinemas
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm: Community Dance JAM w-Live Music - Kalamazoo Institute of Art
05:00 pm: Short Works Live Performance Series III - Cori Terry Theatre
06:15 pm: Networking Social Hour - Black Arts and Cultural Center
07:00 pm: Short Works Live Performance Series IV - Cori Terry Theatre
08:15 pm: Alternative Space program - Stephanie Miracle - Judy Jolliffe Theater
09:00 pm: Encore Short Works Live Performance - Cori Terry Theatre
10:15 pm: After-Glow Reception - The Epic Center
