The North Star Dance Company laid down its roots 8 years ago in November 2016 with their premier performance of original works on the North Star Theater Stage in Cordova, Alaska. The company’s founding members have all since graduated leaving behind their legacy and inspiration for our current upcoming company dancers. We currently are raising a new group of junior dancers, who we hope will commit to dance as they enter Junior and Senior High School. No performances are scheduled at this time.

The company has had the pleasure of working with acclaimed artist, Katherine Kramer, who created a piece specifically for the company in March 2017. In March 2019, these dancers had the unique opportunity to set pieces to music by the Alaskan band, The Super Saturated Sugar Strings, to collaborate with them as well as perform their work LIVE with the band. Also in the spring of 2020, the company exchanged choreography with Dance Momentum, an Anchorage based dance company. Plus, the company dancers got to learn from Okaidja Afroso, visiting guest artist from Portland, who shared his African dance and music heritage and collaborated with both Dance Momentum and the Super Saturated Sugar Strings along with our dancers!

The company staged its own production in February 2020, Incrementum, highlighting four graduating dancers.

Despite COVID, the company has managed to create and share space to work on pieces to share with the community. Performances in the winter and spring of 2021 were limited, but gladly the dancers were able to perform to the greater general public in December 2021 and March 2022.