Kanopy Dance Company

The Next Generation: Kanopy2 & Academy Showcase

Banner text reads: Kanopy Dance The Next Generation of dance. A young woman dances in a red dress against a tan background.

Saturday, May 18

2pm & 5pm

Reception following the 5pm performance

Promenade Hall

Age Recommendation

All ages

Running Time

90 minutes

Tickets (reserved seating): $40
Groups of 4 or more: $35
Ages 18 & under: $20
Students: $20

Performances of iconic modern dance works plus original choreography by Kanopy Dance Academy students & Kanopy 2, Kanopy's studio company.

Watch the next generation of dancers and choreographers in Kanopy Academy and Kanopy 2, our pre-professional training program, ignite the stage with new ideas and expressions—and original choreography and costuming developed and built by the dancers themselves.

The Next Generation is a special opportunity for members of our pre-professional company, Kanopy 2 (along with Academy students), to perform iconic works by Kanopy’s co-artistic directors, Robert E. Cleary and Lisa Thurrell, who have earned national acclaim for their dancing and choreography.

Kanopy 2 offers a pre-professional training program open to exceptional students of dance by audition. Serious dancers are introduced to an intense vocabulary of classic and modern forms and study with national luminaries shaping the future of modern contemporary dance.

Bring a Group! Purchase 4 or more standard price tickets and get a discount. Discount automatically applied when you check out.

Upcoming Kanopy Dance Events

  • December 4 - December 7

    Dance, Family Friendly, Kanopy Dance Winter Fantasia: Reimagined

    Promenade Hall

    Kanopy lights up the stage for the holidays with “Winter Fantasia: Reimagined,” a dazzling dance celebration showcasing a mosaic of cultural traditions.

    Multiple Showtimes
  • February 27

    Friday

    Classical Music, Kanopy Dance, Music, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Masterworks III - Regeneration with Kanopy Dance Company

    Capitol Theater

    Universal rhythms explored through music and movement—weaving together themes of transformation and the endless cycle of renewal.

    7:30 PM
  • April 16 - April 19

    Dance, Family Friendly, Kanopy Dance Divine Mythologies

    Promenade Hall

    Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble and Kanopy Dance collaborate on a rare remarkable performance of Anna Sokolow’s epic “Odes," a luminous, searing vision of humanity, unsparing in its demands for intense physical concentration and dramatic depth.

    Multiple Showtimes
  • May 16

    Saturday

    Dance, Family Friendly, Kanopy Dance The Next Generation of Dance

    Promenade Hall

    Watch the next generation of dancers and choreographers in Kanopy’s pre-professional training program, Kanopy 2 and the Kanopy Academy, ignite the stage with new ideas, new expressions and even original choreography and costuming developed and built by the dancers themselves.

    Multiple Showtimes