THE 2ND ANNUAL KING CITY DANCE WEEK
Featuring Performances and Movement Workshops taught by Guest Artists

Stanton Theater 
720 Broadway Street, King City, CA 93030

Featuring:
Fuse Dance Company 
Novus Contemporary Ballet 
Santa Barbara City College Dance Company 

 Performance
Friday, February 27 @ 9:45 - 10:45 am
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Dance Week Performance Registration

Dance Workshops

Thursday February 26
Introduction to Contemporary Dance taught by Joshua D. Estrada-Romero from Fuse Dance Company 
2:00 - 2:50 pm
(all levels welcome)
Dance Week Classes Registration 

This contemporary dance class blends codified dance techniques with movement practices such as yoga, boxing, taekwondo, and calisthenics. The class challenges dancers’ strength, flexibility, musicality, memory, and coordination through dynamic, rhythmically complex movement. 

Friday, February 27
Introduction to Modern Dance taught by Meredith Ventura from Novus Contemporary Ballet 
2:00 - 2:50 pm
(all levels welcome)
Dance Week Classes Registration 

These classes will introduce foundational principles of modern dance through guided improvisation, floor work, and structured phrase work. Emphasis is placed on breath, weight, musicality, and expressive movement, helping dancers build strength, coordination, and confidence. Designed for all levels, these classes offer a supportive environment to explore.

Questions about signing up for Performance or Dance Workshops please contact 
Jeff Hindersheid at [email protected]

About Featured Guest Companies

FUSE Dance Company is a Southern California–based contemporary dance ensemble dedicated to innovative performance, artistic collaboration, and community-centered education. Founded in 2010 by Joshua D.
Estrada-Romero, FUSE presents dynamic work at festivals and venues across the region and the U.S., while offering classes and programs that foster connection, creativity, and a deeper appreciation for dance.

FUSE Dance Company

Novus Dance Project, founded by in 2017 by Meredith
Cabaniss and Wilson Vu, Novus Dance Project emerged as a bold new voice in Los Angeles that championed artistic collaboration, experimentation, and innovation. Rooted in the vibrant dance community of Southern California, the company offered a platform where emerging artists of all disciplines – dancers, choreographers, composers, musicians, visual and digital artists – could come together to create work that pushed
boundaries and defied convention. With a signature style that merges neoclassical ballet and contemporary dance, Novus continues to reflect the evolving aesthetics of a new generation of movement artists.

Novus Dance Project

 Santa Barbara City College Dance Company is a pre-
professional performance ensemble based at Santa
Barbara City College. Comprised of highly dedicated
student dancers, the company trains in a wide range of
styles—including contemporary, modern, jazz, ballet,
and culturally rooted forms—and works with faculty and
guest choreographers to create dynamic, original
repertory. Each season, the company performs
throughout the region, participates in community
outreach, and brings high-quality dance experiences to
schools and underserved audiences. Through rigorous
training and meaningful performance opportunities,
SBCC Dance Company prepares emerging artists for
transfer, professional careers, and lifelong engagement in
the arts. 

SBCC Dance Company

Biographies of Visiting Guest Artists:

Joshua D. Estrada- Romero (Director and Founder of Fuse Dance Company) began his dance training at California State University, Fullerton and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance in Fall of 2008. Joshua received his MFA in Dance from the University of California Irvine in 2017. He has performed with numerous companies in Southern  California and currently continues to perform with Tustin Dance Center as Snow King, Spanish Lead, and Arabian Lead for their Annual Nutcracker. Joshua is a certified yoga instructor through CorePower yoga and Nutritional Coach through NASM. He is a photographer focusing on capturing dance, movement and sports. Currently, Joshua shares his passion as an instructor/choreographer to all dance students at California State University Fullerton and Santa Ana College.
 
Meredith Ventura (Director and Founder of Novus Dance Company) Meredith Ventura is a choreographer, educator, and scholar whose work bridges concert dance, theater, and performance studies. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also earned her M.A. and B.F.A. in Dance (cum laude). She holds an M.F.A. in Dance from Hollins University. Ventura is the Artistic Director of Novus Contemporary Ballet, two Santa Barbara–based companies merging high-level artistry with critical inquiry and community engagement. Her choreographic works – known for their poetic intensity, theatricality, and intellectual rigor. An award-winning choreographer and dedicated educator, Ventura teaches at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara City College, and Oxnard College, fostering accessible, embodied learning through creative practice, outreach, and mentorship.
 
Tracy Ray Kofford (Artistic Director of the SBCC Dance Company.) Originally from Southern California, he began dancing at age 9 and performing in theater at 13. He holds a BFA in Dance from UC Santa Barbara and an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a full scholarship. He is a prolific choreographer whose works have been presented at prestigious venues nationally and abroad including Lincoln Center, NYU Main Stage, and Dance Loft in Switzerland. For over a decade, Kofford was a principal dancer with Jennifer Muller/The Works in NYC.
 
Fran Spector Atkins (Founder of SpectorDance and King City Dance Week) has directed venues, creative projects, festivals and dance schools for over 50 years in NYC, Cleveland, and Monterey. Some of her outstanding experiences include presenting her works at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C and at Stanford University, San Jose State University, and in Denmark, Italy, Egypt, England, Israel, the Island of Guam and Taiwan. Fran has created numerous socially relevant works and has received numerous honors. She was featured in Carmel Magazine for making “altruistic contributions to the community” and in the film Luminaries of Monterey County. She has twice presented at TEDx Monterey. SpectorDance was selected by The Arts Council for Monterey County as the Outstanding Arts Organization in Monterey County and as a national finalist for the Ovations TV award for Excellence in the Performing Arts. Fran was awarded the Florence Haspel Zeve Award for Outstanding Female Artist in Monterey serving Women, Families and the Arts.

In 2026, Fran is thrilled to be co-directing the 2nd annual King City Dance Week with Tracy Kofford. Fran envisions that King City Dance Week will continue to grow, thrive and inspire a passion for contemporary dance in King City for many years to come.

Thank you to Jeff Hinderscheid, Founder of Center Stage Theatrical, Actor, Director, Teacher, Ats Leader from King City, for all his support for King City Dance Week.

Thank you to our Major funders:
Harden Foundation
Dr. Roger D. Stewart
Arts Council for Monterey County
Monterey County Gives
Yellow Brick Road
Jonathan Lipow
George and Mimi Neisen (Mostly Arts and Youth Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County)

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