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Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance
Shannon Hummel and Cora Dance have been in artists in residency at ARGS since 2019. Cora Dance has a professional company, an apprentice company, and youth companies in Brooklyn, NY and Alleghany, VA. ARGS Dance currently has three dancers working in the Apprentice Company, who are paid to dance and perform professionally alongside the Professional Company.
The company works with all dance majors in their fall and spring residencies, and offers professional dance opportunities. In the fall, Shannon Hummel works with ARGS Dancers on the Crossroads Project; during the spring residency, the professional company teaches master classes for freshman dancers, holds open rehearsals for upperclassmen; and throughout the year the company engages ARGS dancers with showings of professional works in process.
Crossroads 2026; Photos by Jessica Allard (above) and Shannon Hummel (below)
The Crossroads Project
Led by the professional artists of Cora Dance, the Crossroads Project is a collaborative performance project as well as a method of inquiry and self-reflection on our experiences of home. The project uses visualization, journaling, reflective listening, movement improvisation, collaboratively created choreography, and storytelling to reveal strongly held feelings, beliefs, and judgments about our home communities while challenging participants to imagine their understanding of local community as a tool for creating understanding on a national basis. Predominantly centered on tweens, teens, and young adults, Crossroads uses the arts in a safe, welcoming, and joyous environment to increase cross-cultural understanding between seemingly divided communities and to break through the fear, judgment, and stereotypes that keep us from seeing one another as human beings rather than “us” and “them.”
Click here to learn more about the Crossroads Project
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The Latin Ballet of Virginia
ARGS Dance has been hosting The Latin Ballet (LBV) Extension Program since 2024. One day a week after school, LBV offers Ballet, Flamenco, and Afro-Cuban classes to ARGS dancers. This program supports rolling enrollment, drop-in, and pay-what-you-can options, and helps diversify our dancers' training for those who opt to participate. LBV also provides performance opportunities with Repertory classes, and the company often volunteers to work with ARGS for fundraising events like our annual Salsa Night.
Click here to learn more about the LBV Extension Program at ARGS
Salsa Night 2026
Photo by Caroline Beals
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Kevin LaMarr Jones & Claves Unidos
New this year, ARGS Dance is excited to host Kevin LaMarr Jones and Claves Unidos on Saturdays for Flamenco/House Dance workshops, free to ARGS Dancers. The African Roots Reunion™ community dance class with Kevin LaMarr Jones of CLAVES UNIDOS is an energetic, open-level dance experience celebrating the shared roots of African Diaspora movement traditions.
Uniting the African Diaspora through Dance! CLAVES UNIDOS, translated United Rhythms is a collective of independent artists under the artistic direction of founder, Kevin LaMarr Jones who believes that beyond the barriers of race, age, gender, religion and geography, that it is the African presence in the arts that unites the world.
Click here to visit the Claves Unidos website
Claves Unidos; Photo by Mike Keeling
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