OUR MISSION

HARPER CONTINUUM DANCE THEATRE IS COMMITTED TO CREATING ARTFUL DANCE PERFORMANCES WHILE EXPANDING DANCE TO A BROADER AUDIENCE.

HARPER CONTINUUM DANCE THEATRE UNITES MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY BY BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER AND EMBRACING THEM BEYOND THE STAGE AND THROUGH SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCES.

Harper Continuum Dance Theatre is a modern dance company founded by Heather Harper in 2008, becoming a registered 501(c)3 in 2017. Harper Continuum Dance Theatre works are an amalgamation of movement styles. The company's repertoire includes interdisciplinary collaborations, nontraditional approaches to dance, and site-specific performances.

A color photo of Terrell Spence posed in a stone archway bent forward in an asymmetrical shape.

As we breathe

STRIKING FIGURES…

A Collection of dances about women

A color photo of four women embracing one another while crouched in a squatting position. Each woman is wearing a cream color slip dress matching their skin tone. This photo is on a stage with blue reflecting light on the black floor.
A color image of four women and one man positioned in a line from kneeling to standing in a small pool of water. The women are a fair complexion and the man is medium complexion and everyone is wearing shades of black or gray clothing .

playing the wild card

The high project

A very colorful image of a dancer hanging upside down from a wooden beam in a bodysuit covered in paint. The shape of her head shows through the flexible fabric being painted with a paint brush by an older male artist in a crowd.

coalesce

A photo of eleven dancers having multiple complexions reaching in multiple directions in a tight formation all wearing white in various styles of clothing. This image is in color, but the main colors are a dark stage and the dancers.

in motion

A black woman posed in a strong, arched position balancing on a wooden bench on the ball of her right foot with her knees bent and facing up to the skyscrapers of NYC's Hudson River: sun kissed skin, & purple dress, green grass & trees, blue sky