Lila Dance Festival

2025 Dates Coming Soon

Join us for a day of dance on the beautiful Rochester Commons. Our lineup features an exciting array of free performances to suit every taste. For the youngest dance enthusiasts, the “Fairytales & Tutus” show invites children to dance alongside their beloved fairytale characters. The student showcase features the talents of the next generation of artists in New Hampshire and the Seacoast. Finally, our main stage performances spotlight local professional companies, emerging choreographers, the captivating tango piece by our 2024 guest artist, and other special guests. Don’t miss out on this unforgettable celebration of dance!

LILA 2022 Promo
Alejandro Figliolo 2024 Guest artist
We’re thrilled to announce that the internationally acclaimed dancer, teacher, and choreographer Alejandro Figliolo will be gracing our stage! With over two decades of experience in the art of Argentine Tango, Alejandro brings a wealth of expertise and passion to our dance festival.

Hailing from Buenos Aires, Alejandro has left an indelible mark on the global Tango community, serving as a teacher and performer at esteemed institutions such as the Escuela de Danzas Tradicionales José Hernandez and the Escuela Mundial de Tango Gabriela Elias. His dedication to preserving the rich history and tradition of Tango is evident in his work, making him a sought-after figure in the dance world.

2024 – Mainstage Artists

Yuval Cohen & Emily Wilson

Yuval Cohen & Emily Wilson

Yuval Cohen began dancing at age six, when he joined the Mehola Dance Company, specializing in folk and modern dance. From 2013-2018, Yuval studied ballet and after winning an excellence scholarship in 2017 from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, he joined the...

Millie Heckler 

Millie Heckler 

Millie Heckler is an interdisciplinary artist who merges movement, voice and original music to tell stories of rage, sensuality and forgiveness. Her practice lies in unlocking voices of the body. Through a practice of (re)opening embodied instruments—such as movement,...

Annex Contemporary Dance Company

Annex Contemporary Dance Company

Annex Contemporary Dance Company (ACDC) is the resident professional performing dance troupe of The Dance Annex Studio. Comprised of local dance professionals, ACDC is proud to engage some of the most talented dance artists in the area. Under the direction of Julie...

Northeastern Ballet Theatre

Northeastern Ballet Theatre

Nestled in the heart of New Hampshire, USA, Northeastern Ballet Theatre (NBT) is a distinguished professional ballet company with a rich legacy of world-class performances and training since its establishment in 1996. Led by the visionary founder, Edra Toth, a former...

NSquared Dance

NSquared Dance

NSquared Dance is a professional dance company located in Manchester, NH, created with the purpose of energizing audiences through movement. They strive to increase awareness of the power of dance and help foster opportunities that improve accessibility to the...

SundanceX

SundanceX

David Sun started his group, SundanceX in 2013 as a classically based company in the Greater Boston/NH area.The group has successfully performed in the Boston area as well as in Vermont, Newport RI, New Jersey, & New York City. His latest...

Tayler Demeo

Tayler Demeo

Originally from Vermont, Tayler first attended The Boston Conservatory for dance. She has continued to grow her artistic practice through the Bates Dance Festival for the last two decades, with Countertechnique since 2017 and through other modalities such as Graham,...

Susan Endrizzi

Susan Endrizzi

Susan Endrizzi received her B.F.A. in dance performance from Butler University. Her professional credits include performances with Ballet New England and Ballet Theatre of Pennsylvania. Endrizzi joined José Mateo's Ballet Theatre of Boston in 1995 where she danced...

Angela Grassie

Angela Grassie

Angela Grassie has been dancing since the age of two at Corinne’s School of Dance in Rochester, NH. She also studied ballet, pointe, and modern at Ballet New England in Portsmouth, NH. Angela was featured in Dance Spirit Magazine for winning the Future Star Award at...

Savannah Lee

Savannah Lee

Savannah Lee started her training with Atlanta Ballet under the direction of John McFall. At age fourteen, she reached the top of the pre professional division and danced corps de ballet roles with the company. Savannah was one of twelve Americans to attend The Royal...

Ashleigh Tucker Pollock

Ashleigh Tucker Pollock

Ashleigh Tucker Pollock, a Seacoast NH native, started her dance training at Ballet New England. After graduating from the dance department at SUNY Purchase, Ashleigh became a company dancer with several companies in NYC, including CorbinDances. Upon moving back to...

Meghan McCoy Seedner

Meghan McCoy Seedner

Meghan primarily trained at the Portsmouth School of Ballet, with summer training at Joffrey Ballet Theater NYC and Jose Mateo Ballet Theater in Cambridge MA. In 2010, she graduated from the University of New Hampshire with her BA in Theater and Dance. She joined the...

Kelsie Steil

Kelsie Steil

“I am sharing the darkness and lightness that derive from the most truthful human experiences”  Kelsie Steil is a freelance choreographer living in Biddeford, Maine. She earned a Bachelors Degree in Adventure Education with a Minor in Dance from Plymouth State...

Ella Roberts & Ava Girard

Ella Roberts & Ava Girard

Ella and Ava are friends and partners in choreographic mischief.  They danced together in high school and have always appreciated one another's choreographic creations--in particular, their quirkiness.  After several years' distant dreaming about collaborating on a...

Applications

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