"Keep it Moving" celebrates Temple Professor Emerita Merián Soto’s choreographic work and pedagogy in 14 videos of works created and/or performed by students and alumni of Temple University’s Department of Dance during her tenure from 1999-2024. These include choreographic explorations with salsa and other popular forms, reconstructions from early repertoire developed in New York City in the '80s and '90s, works created for and with students, and works from the Branch Dance and Modes! series.

Opening reception: 
Friday, January 17 from 6-8 p.m. 
With performances by Leslie Bush, Leslie Elkins, Enya Kalia Jordan, and Rachel Repinz at 7:30 p.m. 

This event is supported by the Temple University General Activities Fund.

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Jan 16 6 PM 
Film Screening, Tracing Sacred Steps: A Cinematic Experience
Blending dance, theater, and figure skating, Tracing Sacred Steps is a film version of Deneane Richburg/Brownbody's signature on-ice work choreographed in 2022. Film directed by Aidan Un and Deneane Richburg, with music by Alex Shaw. 

Location: Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery @ Tyler School of Art & Architecture
    This is a FREE event.

Jan 21 2 PM     
Performance: The Backyard / Before we got there, works by Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock.  

Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock perform their improvised work The Backyard, creating a hyper-conscious inhabiting of time, space, and relationship—a radical invitation for intimacy and embodiment.  Beau Hancock’s Before we got there delves into shedding, stripping, and showing up. Part of Keep it moving: 25 years of creative research at Temple University Department of Dance 

Jan 21 6 PM
Film Screening: Refractions. Video works by Soto alumni, curated by Leslie Bush.   
Part of Keep it Moving: 25 years of creative research at Temple University Department of Dance 

Location: Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery @ Tyler School of Art & Architecture
    These are FREE events.

Jan 22 6PM     
Performance:  Memorias para siempre
Works by Christina Castro-Tauser, Jennifer Morley, Caitlin Quinn Pottinger and Ciera Woods. Part of Keep it moving: 25 years of creative research at Temple University Department of Dance 

Location: Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery @ Tyler School of Art & Architecture
    This is a FREE event.

Jan 23 2PM      
Performance:  After YES: Practice Project  
A work by Meghan Fredrick. 
After YES, an experiment in improvisational dance, is pushed to its minimalist and durational extremes, implicating the attention and commitment of both dancers and audience. Come for the whole 60 minutes or pass through. Part of Keep it moving: 25 years of creative research at Temple University Department of Dance 

Location: Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery @ Tyler School of Art & Architecture
    This is a FREE event.

Jan 24 7 PM     
Retirement Gathering: Gifts for Merián: Celebrating the teachings of Merián Soto at Temple University Department of Dance 
Location: Conwell Dance Theater
This is a FREE event.

Jan 25 2-4 PM 
Performance: The Practice of Peace, improvisational performance by Soto’s former students
Merián Soto Exhibition Closing Reception
Keep it moving: 25 years of creative research at Temple University Department of Dance 

Location: Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery @ Tyler School of Art & Architecture 
This is a FREE event.