Our mission is to enrich, educate and inspire communities through innovative contemporary-modern dance.
Sonia Plumb Dance Company reaches beyond the arts community with a diverse repertoire that often reflects upon larger societal issues through performances, classes, workshops, community outreach, arts integration residencies and collaborations with musicians and composers, artists and actors, puppeteers, poets, and educators.
It is our vision to provide audiences from all cultures, age groups, abilities, and income levels throughout the Northeast, and beyond, with opportunities to learn how to dance, watch dance, appreciate dance and/or incorporate dance in their lives.
For more than 30 years, thousands have enjoyed our dance. Combining dance artistry with stunning visuals, vivid choreography, and compelling storytelling, from stages to classrooms to parks to libraries, we inspire and ignite.
History
Officially became a 501(c)3
1991
International Special Olympics, New Haven, CT (1995), Dance Now, Cheney Hall, Manchester, CT (1994), Fill Your Plate, Cheney Hall, Manchester, CT (1993), New Dance/New Haven, New Haven, CT (1991, 1992, 1993), A New Generation of Dance, S.U.N.Y. Purchase, NY (1992).
Premiered: Disconnected (1995), Molecular Reality (1995), Civil-Lies (1994), Bach-analia (1993), Wild Woman (1993), Chain Reaction (1992), Bustin’ (1992), Water and Air (1992), Take Two (1992), And Then There Were Two (1992), Stroke of Midnight (1992), No Meaning (1991), Triple S Roost (1991), Rhythm of the Masses (1991)
1991 – 1995
New Dance/New Haven,
CTPremiered first full length dance: The Wanderings of Odysseus
1996
Sono Arts Festival, South Norwalk, CT (1999), Connecticut Choreographers’ Showcase & Forum, Waterbury, CT (1999), International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven, CT (1996, 2000), Ted Hershey Dance and Music Marathon, Hartford, CT, White Mountain Summer Dance Festival, Paul Winter Consort, Norfolk, CT.
Premiered: Into the Wildwood (1999), Mambo Jumbo/Girls’ Night Out (1999), Denial (1998), Letting Go (1998), Frost and Field (1998), Sighing (1997)
1997 – 1999
Connecticut Dance Alliance Showcase, New London, CT, (2001), OpSail, New London, CT (2001), Ted Hershey Dance and Music Marathon, Hartford, CT.
Premiered: More Than You Know (2000),
2000 – 2002
Hiatus
2002 – 2011
Joined the Hartford Performs Roster providing arts integration and arts access programming to Hartford Public Schools. Premiered Water Wars, a full length dance dedicated to all things water. First Artist in Residence at the University of St. Joseph, West Hartford, CT.
2012
Premiered Too Close to the Light, The Moon, Bach in Space
5X5 Dance Festival, Artists for World Peace.
2013
Premiered: Privacy Settings and Fractured Light.
Launched Active Bodies/Active Minds dance classes for children on the Autism Spectrum.
2014
Premiered full-length dance The Odyssey at the University of Saint Joseph, CT and Katherine Hepburn Center, Old Saybrook, CT. Artists for World Peace
2015
Received Hartford Foundation for Public Giving’s three-year cornerstone grant, to provide apprenticeships to underserved, typically minority, high school graduates who cannot afford typical four-year degrees in dance. Premiered Fire or Ice at The Bushnell. Artists for World Peace, 5X5 Festival, Southern VT Dance Festival
2016-2017
Premiered Dance of da Vinci
WaxWorks, Brooklyn, NY (2018), Ted Hershey Dance and Music Marathon, Southern VT Dance Festival.
2018
Shared Space – Mark Morris Dance Group, Brooklyn, NY (2019), 5X5 Dance Festival, CT, Dance in the Parks/Hartford, CT, Southern VT Dance Festival, CT Science Center. Premiered Random XY.
2019
Premiered Dance of da Vinci 2.0 at the Hill-Stead Museum. Presented Duos & Trios and the digital dance “Touch.” Columns Dance and Wellness Center Festival. Virtual 5X5 Dance Festival. Penelope’s Odyssey Part 1.
2020-2021
Presented Penelope’s Odyssey - Part 1, partnered with the Wadsworth Atheneum, Capital Community College, Trinity College and UMass Amherst. Residency at MudHouse, Crete, GR. Digital Dance project with the Bushnell, Hartford, CT
2021
Premiered The Pearl, Hartford, CT. Collaborated with the Bushnell Digital Dance to create the underwater sequences for Penelope’s Odyssey
2022
Premiered Penelope’s Odyssey at Castleton University, Vermont.
Sound of Migration Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland; Performance Garage, PA; Fall Forward Dixon Place, NY; 5x5 Dance Festival.
2023
Our legal purpose is to run a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dance company. That stimulates, promotes, and develops the art of dance; educates about it; and brings it to previously neglected places and peoples. And accepts donations, public and private, to make dance programming as affordable and inclusive as can be. Our dance does not discriminate.