“I started dancing when I was seven, the music inspired a tap in my heart…”

Dawn Dippel, Revolve Dance Company, CO-FOUNDER

 Revolve Dance Company is one of 13 Dance Companies participating in Dance Houston’s Annual City-Wide Dance Festaval being held at Houston’s Wortham Center on Saturday, August 29^th.  The line of company’s will include the following companies; 8^th Edition, Barbara King Dance Company, Compania Folklorica Alegria Mexicana, Dance of Asian America, Dominic Walsh Dance Theater, Houston Ballet II, Luna Tango Productions, NobleMotion Dance, Revolve Dance Company, Sreepadam School of Arts, Uptown Dance Company, Urban Souls Dance Company and Wyld Styl.

When we sat down with Dawn Dippel, Co-founder of Revolve Dance Company to chat about their performance at the Dance Houston City-Wide Festival, we asked her to share the impact her dance training had on her academic and life training… we anticipated that her response would be something along the theme of seeing lines and movement in everything she engaged in and that words, stories and experiences in her life would somehow have a tune that accompanied the day to day excitement of being a committed dancer; Dawn’s  responses were eloquent and inspiring in a whole different manner.  Dawn now a 23 year veteran in dance at the young age of 30 shared with us that when attending the High school for Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, TX it provided her a foundation of structure and discipline she would later learn would drive her craft. Academics such as literature, and science provided her with reference points to draw from as it related story telling and the body’s physiology. Dawn’s focus when she first began to train was strictly around Jazz and Tap, in her teen years she was drawn to ballet, then is when she says her craft began to evolve into a deep love of ballet and a career.

 

“I was mesmerized with the structure and discipline ballet dancers possessed.  The lines, shapes and movement ballet dancers were able to achieve and create were magical.”

Dawn Dippel, Revolve Dance Company, CO-FOUNDER

 As a direct result of opening a dance studio in 1994 along side Amy Cain, the two inspired and accomplished dancers would add a layer to their dedication to Dance.  Dawn and Amy co-founded Revolve in 2004 where their focus and vision would lead them to create a professional company comprised of well-rounded dancers whose talents span a wide range of fields in the art of dance: from ballet to jazz, lyrical to tap and hip-hop, modern to yoga and Pilates, as well as teaching talents, choreographic talents, music editing/arrangement, and costume design. Dawn shared with us that everyone associated with Revolve is continuously seeking to deepen their knowledge and widen their expertise around dance; she strongly believes that dance is a process and is something that requires examination, flexibility and the acceptance to use a lens based on a critical eye.

 “Dance is liberating, it offers richness to my life where cultures and languages have no boundaries; where anything is possible… all I have to do is accept a challenge and with work and dedication any goal is within reach.”    

Dawn Dippel, Revolve Dance Company, CO-FOUNDER

Revolve dance company is currently working on perfecting a Jazz Contemporary piece for the City Wide Dance festival which she says is up-beat, honest and pedestrian like.  The piece was choreographed by acclaim Choreographer Wes Veldink who is known for creating art that focuses on bringing attention to the dancers’ immediate space-their bodies, and awareness to their feelings, their state of mind and their state of spirituality. Veldink focuses on a dancer’s ability to share themselves with an audience. Veldink pieces are seen and experienced through the lens of modern contemporary jazz, hip-hop and street with awareness to lyrical content. Veldink’s arrangement will certainly have a wide spread versatility and is guaranteed to speak to the masses…

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Revolve’s Contemporary piece will be executed by 12 dancers ages ranging in from 18 to 30 the training behind dancers is varied which adds yet a sensational dimension to the piece.

 “It is so exciting to see, hear and experience the practices leading up to the City-wide festival,  I see  that our focus is on track, a comfort that comes from trust of a fluid process and a dedication that allows our dancers to speak through inspired lines of movement.”

Dawn Dippel, Revolve Dance Company, CO-FOUNDER

 The inspiration dancers are able to portray to an audience through lines, movement is truly a magical event… We can’t wait to see Revolve and our other Company’s perform at the City-Wide Dance Festival as their music and dance inspires a tap in a community’s heart!