January 2027 Season Matinee: Contemporary Ballet & Live Music

Chamber Dance Project, Washington DC’s premier contemporary ballet company with live music, returns to Arena Stage on Saturday, January 9. This January, step into an intimate performance of contemporary ballet and live music. Chamber Dance Project’s January 2027 season brings 9 exceptional dancers and our resident string quartet to Arena Stage’s Kreeger Theater on Saturday, January 9. The program features the DC premiere of Sur le Fil, a striking and elusive ballet by choreographer Penny Saunders. Evocative and cinematic, the work moves between mystery and intensity. William Moore’s Slice makes its world premiere, a new work created for Chamber Dance Project in which movement is sharp, intense, and charged. The return of Dimensions, the second movement of Moore’s Murmur, centers on a dynamic male solo. Repertoire works by founding Artistic Director and choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning, include Arranged, an austere and beautifully haunting work, and Four Men, a playful yet physically demanding ballet. Throughout the evening, musicians and dancers share the stage, responding to one another in real time. It is a defining part of the Chamber Dance Project experience—and one that makes every performance immediate, intimate, and alive. Stay after the Matinee performance for an onstage workshop.