Get your tickets for the 2025 Motion State Dance Festival—a five-day extravaganza to celebrate the festival’s fifth anniversary!

Performances . Dance Films . Conversations . Classes

Over 14 dance artists—local and national, emerging and established—gather in Providence to share their boundary-pushing creative explorations.

With live performances from Kathy Westwater & Lance Gries (NYC), Lacina Coulibaly (CT), and Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith (NYC). Plus Makisig Akin (Berlin) & Anya Cloud (CO), Alex Davis (MA), Barbie Diewald & Meredith Bove (MA), Daniel McCusker (MA), NANO (RI), and Jessica T. Pearson & April Brown (RI).

Plus, dance films from around the world, parties, post-show talks, and classes with the artists.

Image: Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith, Body Comes Apart. Photo: Whitney Browne