The 2nd King City Dance Week
featuring performances and movement workshops with visiting guest artists
Stanton Theater
720 Broadway Street
King City, CA 03030
February 26-27, 2026
featuring performances and movement workshops with visiting guest artists
Stanton Theater
720 Broadway Street
King City, CA 03030
February 26-27, 2026
Jeff Hindersheid, director and founder Center Stage Theatrical and Fran Spector Atkins, director and founder of SpectorDance presented the first King City Dance Week on February 2025 at the Stanton Theater in King City.
We are proud to present the 2nd King City Dance Week on February 26 and 27, 2026. This event will build upon last year's successful program. We will offer an adventurous, entertaining and enriching program of magical dance performances and contemporary movement workshops for high school, elementary and middle school students in King City and the surrounding areas. Tracy Kofford, director of Santa Barbara City College Dance Company will join Fran Spector Atkins as King City Dance Week's co-director!
We are proud to present the 2nd King City Dance Week on February 26 and 27, 2026. This event will build upon last year's successful program. We will offer an adventurous, entertaining and enriching program of magical dance performances and contemporary movement workshops for high school, elementary and middle school students in King City and the surrounding areas. Tracy Kofford, director of Santa Barbara City College Dance Company will join Fran Spector Atkins as King City Dance Week's co-director!
For over 30 years, SpectorDance Company has presented issue-based multidisciplinary works using a signature style that blends visual media, verbal material, and music with dance. SpectorDance works address some of today’s most pressing socio-economic topics such as climate change, gang violence and juvenile justice, agricultural history, military family sacrifice and more.
Each SpectorDance project begins with the selection of a topic about a critical social issue that affects our community. We then embark upon extensive research and seek out experts in the field to interview. Once these interviews have been collected and recorded, selected sound bites are woven in with related visual images and a music mix. Finally, dancers explore movements that physically express the concepts covered and their responses to them. In this way, we believe that our artistic practice can inform and communicate in new and powerful ways.
Every project is unique, and involves SpectorDance forging meaningful partnerships with a wide variety of outstanding non-arts organizations. Past collaborators include the United Farm Workers, Monterey Aquarium Research Institute and Rancho Cielo, an award-winning vocational training program for at-risk young adults. These partnerships enable us to delve into socially-relevant topics from firsthand perspectives, reach broader audiences, and translate facts and empirical information into a dynamic art experience. Innovative engagement programs that bring dance, artistry and education to the community are also associated with each project. Our works employ dance to inform, heal, transform, build community and inspire action.
Each SpectorDance project begins with the selection of a topic about a critical social issue that affects our community. We then embark upon extensive research and seek out experts in the field to interview. Once these interviews have been collected and recorded, selected sound bites are woven in with related visual images and a music mix. Finally, dancers explore movements that physically express the concepts covered and their responses to them. In this way, we believe that our artistic practice can inform and communicate in new and powerful ways.
Every project is unique, and involves SpectorDance forging meaningful partnerships with a wide variety of outstanding non-arts organizations. Past collaborators include the United Farm Workers, Monterey Aquarium Research Institute and Rancho Cielo, an award-winning vocational training program for at-risk young adults. These partnerships enable us to delve into socially-relevant topics from firsthand perspectives, reach broader audiences, and translate facts and empirical information into a dynamic art experience. Innovative engagement programs that bring dance, artistry and education to the community are also associated with each project. Our works employ dance to inform, heal, transform, build community and inspire action.
dancers Kelsey Forbush and Gabrial Mata, photo by Wlliam Roden
Thank you to our Major funders:
The Arts Council for Monterey County
Harden Foundation
Monterey County Gives
George and Mimi Niessen Mostly Arts and Youth Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County
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