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Founded in 1976, Kanopy Dance Company has been under the artistic direction of Cleary and Thurrell since 1995. Kanopy is a resident company of Overture Center for the Arts.

Our day-to-day human experience can be filled with limits: limits of the self, limits set by others. When we allow our senses to transcend these reigns, our body and mind can feel the visceral shift awakening to all possibility.

Artistic directors Lisa Andrea Thurrell and Robert E. Cleary recognize the importance of offering dance presentations of risk, of chance, of change with compelling choreography, performed with incisive discipline. The structure of dance conveys the very freedom the human heart longs for in life. Every performance highlights the artistic commitment of each dancer so we might remember in our own self, that the high art of discipline leads to our greatest freedom.

The Company features works by its artistic directors and local, regional, national and international choreographers; and historical dance masterworks, all linked by the desire to create thought-provoking dance that is daring, elegant, humorous and bold.

Kanopy Dance Company offers this limitlessness to its audiences of all ages with its vision to grow the remembering and the potential in each of us.



Kanopy Dance Company

329 West Mifflin Street
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 255-2211

Kanopy Dance is a resident company of Overture Center for the Arts.

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