This annual dance festival returns to the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts for its sixth year, and continues to present a thrilling range of aesthetics and artistry.  From post-modern athleticism to seasoned theatricality, these artists offer choreographic works that are sophisticated, witty, wonderfully intelligent and revealing.

Scheduled to perform in two separate programs over two nights are artists from across the nation, including dance companies from Philadelphia, Portland, Houston, Chicago, New York City and an international company from Italy.

Saturday, January 7 at 8pm

* Houston Met Dance Company, Light Before Sound by Jason Parsons

* The DASH Ensemble, If We Were by Gregory Dolbashian

* Adam Barruch Dance, folie à deux by Adam Barruch

* CorbinDances, Shady by Patrick Corbin

* BalletX, Silt by Alex Ketley

* Gallim Dance, Wonderland by Andrea Miller

* Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, IFE/My Heart by Ronald K. Brown

Sunday, January 8 at 7pm

* Brian Brooks Moving Company, Descent by Brian Brooks

* Spellbound Dance, Lost for Words by Mauro Astolfi

* Northwest Dance Project, A Short History of Walking by André Mesquita

* DanceWorks Chicago, My Witness by Gina Patterson

* Morphoses

* Pam Tanowitz Dance, Femina by Pam Tanowitz

* Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, The Legend of Ten by Lar Lubovitch