Adaptations Dance Theater's annual summer residency and dance concert series
The culmination of ADT’s performance programs, Bring it Home brings together a professional cast of resident and guest dance artists to share their craft with our island home and celebrate the artistry of Maui’s own.
August 16 - 18
7PM Friday & Saturday
2PM Sunday
at the Historic ‘Iao Theater
$35 General, $25 Student/Senior. Tickets are on sale now at MauiOnstage.com/bring-it-home.
MEET THE CHOREOGRAPHERS
Hallie Hunt (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, educator and movement researcher, she has lived and worked on Maui for the past twelve years. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Adaptations Dance Theater where she also serves as a resident choreographer and a dance artist. Hallie received her early training with Western Ballet, Ballet San Jose and Lines Ballet school. She went on to study at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance.
Hallie has performed professionally with Ballet San Jose (San Jose, CA.) under Artistic Director Dennis Nahat and Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet (San Francisco, CA), CRAFT Dance Series and The Ali McKeon Dance Project (Palo Alto, CA)
She performed and toured with The Foundry (San Francisco, CA) under Artistic Directors Alex Ketley and Christian Burns. While dancing with The Foundry, Hallie completed art residencies at Ucross Art Residency in Wyoming, Santa Fe Art Residency in New Mexico and Headland Center for the Arts in Marin, California. Hallie had the pleasure to dance with Artship Dance Theater (Belgrade,Serbia) under Artistic Director Slobodan Dan Paich. While with Artship Hallie had the opportunity to teach and serve as a cultural liaison to high school art programs in Belgrade. Hallie had the honor to create a new dance work in residence at the Merwin Conservancy on Maui and she was the inaugural choreographer with ADT for the RARE residency at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center.
Hallie has performed work by choreographers William Forsythe, Jiri Kylián, Dennis Nahat, Alonzo King, Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, Robert Moses, Gregory Dawson, Ali Mckeon, Nathaniel Hunt, Amelia Couture, Sarala Dandekar, Akari Ueoka, Florian Lochner and Alice Klock of Flockworks and Mark Kanemura.
Hallie teaches at Alexander Academy of Performing Arts, Maui Academy of Performing Arts. She has enjoyed opportunities to teach at Momentum Dance Maui and Seabury Hall’s dance program. She believes in the power of dance to change lives and loves sharing movement and ideas with the youth on Maui and beyond.
Katie Whiticar (she/her) is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer from Maui, Hawai’i. Katie has performed with companies: Rebecca Lemme|Acts of Matter, Keith Johnson/Dancers, Kathleen Helm & Dancers, and Rosy Simas Danse. She earned her B.A. in Dance from California State University Long Beach as a scholarship recipient and received additional training at San Francisco Conservatory of Dance and Movement Invention Project New York. Katie has been a part of ADT since 2016 and has had the pleasure of performing in pieces choreographed by Hallie Hunt, Nathaniel Hunt, FLOCK, Ali McKeon-Pineo and others. As a choreographer, Katie produced 0.0 Series, an immersive pop-up event series in Long Beach, CA, co-choreographed Henosis, a piece set on ADT for ArT=Mixx Maui, and created Echo, a short dance film for ADT’s first SEED residency. In addition, she mentors high-school students and creates choreography for college auditions and dance competitions. She loves diving into intricate and intense choreographic processes, creating new ideas, and sharing her passion for dance with the Maui community.