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RED NIGHTFALL DANCE THEATRE PRESENTS

RITUALS OF LIGHT

JULY 11 &  12 | 7:00 P.M. | EAST SIDE PERFORMING ARTS

Rituals of Light marks the premiere of an original performance series that merges movement, sound, story, and style into a spellbinding live experience.
It is both a celebration of the Summer Solstice and an opening ritual into the mythic universe of CRONE — a world of feminine wisdom, elemental magic, and ancestral memory.

What to Expect

• Immersive dance theatre rooted in experimentation and storytelling

• Live music & soundscape performances

• Short films + media installations

• Couture meets ceremony: a fashion offering for the future

• A vibrant communal gathering of artists, dreamers & light-workers

About the Series

This is the first threshold in a series of offerings that will build toward a full-length immersive production and feature film exploring a regeneratively magical culture from the CRONE Universe.

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Event Details

• Date: Friday, July 11, 2025 & Saturday, July 12, 2025
• Time: 7:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
• Venue: East Side Performing Arts
• Website: https://www.rednightfallproductions.com/2025

Ticket Information

• Cost: From $33.85

Presenter Details

• Name: Red Nightfall Dance Theatre

Dorothy O'Shea Overbey founded Red Nightfall Dance Theatre in 2017 with a mission to amplify voices overlooked by traditional gatekeepers in the performing arts world. A dancer, choreographer, musician, producer, and small-business owner, Dorothy brings her multidisciplinary background to RNDT's immersive experiences and films that tell stories of transformation.

Dorothy's artistic journey spans training at Ballet Austin, piano studies under University of Texas Professor Emeritus Amanda Vick Lethco, and performance experience with ballet and contemporary companies across New York, Colorado, and California. She holds degrees in both Dance Performance and Philosophy from Southern Methodist University.

Dorothy's work increasingly explores the intersection of dance, technology, and film. In 2018, while at UT Austin, she created "Invention in Three Parts," choreographing movement captured through motion capture technology and later transformed into animated films using Unreal Engine in collaboration with students from UT's Department of Radio-Television-Film. In 2023, she choreographed and performed in a groundbreaking live version of the Virtual Reality film "Once a Glacier" at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam, where her real-time motion-captured choreography was translated into animation and projected on screen. Her film credits also include two short films, "Prelude" and "Elegy."

Inspired by New York's dynamic arts scene but committed to greater accessibility, Dorothy returned to Austin where she established RNDT as a platform that embodies the belief that “the creation of beauty is not the privilege off the pedigreed, but a birth-right to us all.”

In 2023, Dorothy left her faculty position at UT Austin's Department of Theatre and Dance to focus fully on growing Red Nightfall Dance Theatre and establishing East Side Performing Arts (ESPA) as a national performing arts center in Austin.

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