Festival Schedule & Performances
Friday, July 24 7:30pm
The Acadia Dance Festival returns to Bar Harbor, ME - featuring performances by the acclaimed Nimbus Dance with musicians from the Bar Harbor Music Festival.
Developed over ten years of creation and collaboration, Nimbus Dance presents ANIMA, Samuel Pott's 3-part work that confronts our most primal and precarious bond: humankind's relationship with the natural world. By turns achingly evocative and visually astounding, ANIMA offers audiences an immersive, visceral experience, reflecting our disorientation and estrangement from nature, and our place within it.
Created in close collaboration with acclaimed composer Qasim Naqvi, ANIMA features immersive projections by internationally renowned artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger, and sets by Guggenheim Fellow, Nicola López.
A virtuosic chamber ensemble of musicians from the Bar Harbor Music Festival perform live at the historic 1932 Criterion Theatre.
“(ANIMA is) Nimbus in the raw: pure, sinewy, expertly executed modern dance”
— Tris McCall, Jersey City Times
The Acadia Dance Festival celebrates its 7th season of performance and arts education serving the MDI and Downeast Community. The Acadia Dance Festival is a non-profit presented by Nimbus Dance, in partnership with the 1932 Criterion Theatre, Camp Beech Cliff, and ArtWaves MDI.
At the 1932 Criterion Theatre, 35 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor
Saturday, July 25 11am
Concert Dance for the Whole Family! Join the professional dancers of Nimbus Dance at the Criterion for a thrilling experience designed for young audiences. Just 60 minutes in length, the concert features fun and jazzy dances, visual set designs, and a chance to ask dancers your very own questions! Nimbus company dancers are joined onstage by talented youth performers from Camp Beech Cliff and the Acadia Dance Festival Intensive - come cheer them on!
The Acadia Dance Festival celebrates its 7th season of performance and arts education serving the MDI and Downeast Community. The Acadia Dance Festival is a non-profit presented by Nimbus Dance, in partnership with the 1932 Criterion Theatre, Camp Beech Cliff, and ArtWaves MDI.
At the 1932 Criterion Theatre, 35 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor
Check out reviews from past Acadia Dance Festivals:
2024 festival collaboration with Bar Harbor Music Festival in the Mount Desert Islander
2022 festival from the Mount Desert Islander