Sunday Series by loveDANCEmore
Introducing our presenting artists for Sunday Series!
Alexandra Barbier
Rae Luebbert
Constance Anderson
You can read more about each artist below, or visit our website.
$20 suggested per ticket with reduced or free ticket options. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Please RSVP here to Sunday Series and purchase tickets in advance.
Originally from Louisiana, Alexandra Barbier currently resides in Illinois where she is an assistant professor of dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She creates multi-layered performance works that examine personal and familial histories, formative memories, identities, relationships, and the zeitgeists in which these develop. In 2022, Alexandra was selected as NCCAkron’s Community Commissioning Residency Artist. Her works have been presented in New York through Movement Research at the Judson Church; in Utah at the Marriott Center for Dance (University of Utah), Salt Lake Performance Art Festival, The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, Sunset (formerly Commonwealth) Studios, Red Butte Garden, The City Library’s 12 Minutes Max, loveDANCEmore’s Sunday Series; in Louisiana at the Shaw Center for the Arts’ Manship Theatre, the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge’s Shell Gallery; in Ohio for University of Akron’s Rethinking Race Symposium; and in Illinois at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), and the Virginia Theatre. She has presented research, lecture-demonstrations, and papers at the International Association of Blacks in Dance conference, Collegium for African Diaspora Dance, and Popular Culture Association conference. Her visual art has been exhibited through the Champaign Urbana BIPOC Artist Collective’s exhibit for the 2024 Boneyard Arts Festival.
Photo by Natalie Fiol
Rae Luebbert (she/they) is a movement artist, dance educator, experimental filmmaker, and community organizer. As a Resident Artist with loveDANCEmore, Rae facilitates Monday Movement Lab, a creative incubator space for experimental dance work, and curates the Noori Screendance Festival to uplift independent dance films. Rae organizes and produces the annual Queer Spectra Arts Festival, which creates an interdisciplinary space centered around queer identity. Rae and local musician Amelia Diehl facilitate and direct Shoreline Swell, an cross-disciplinary project that brings together writers, dancers, and musicians to make new works about Great Salt Lake. In 2025, in collaboration with Emily Ames (dancer) and Amelia Diehl, Rae debuted "a long side: a queer double portrait", an evening-length dance show that was performed in Salt Lake City and Washington, DC. Rooted in melding live performance and filmed dance, "a long side: a queer double portrait" explores the elasticity of time and space and embraces the expansiveness of queerness.
Photo by Hailey Mae
Constance Anderson is a choreographer, filmmaker, Theatrical Intimacy Education Practitioner, and performer. She has presented at festivals nationally and internationally in Greece, Thailand, and Spain.
In 2019, Anderson founded her company, Sock Opera Dance, to explore the relationship between dance choreography and its venue. She combines philosophy and movement, reframing the proscenium theatre as a site for site-specific choreography and repurposing non-traditional spaces for film, theatre, and dance installations.
In Salt Lake City, she has shown work in the Salt Lake Film Festival and participated as a featured choreographer in Repertory Dance Company's choreographic competition Regalia and the choreographic intensive Playground. She has served as a choreographer for several productions at the University of Utah's Theatre Department. Outside of her university teachings, Anderson has taught technique for Repertory Dance Theatre and Dance Class for Humans.
Anderson previously created work in the Midwest, forming an artist's collective and vying for all artists to have a platform. She choreographed for the Wisconsin University System's Theatre and Dance departments, creating original work and setting repertory choreography for Li Chiao-Ping Dance, for whom she professionally performed and toured. She believes in making bold visual, musical, and spatial choices that span multiple mediums to create focused experimental choreography. While her artistic perspective boldly crosses mediums, movement remains at the heart of all her creative decision-making.
She crafts compositional systems and collaborative frameworks that create dynamic collaborative environments. Within these spaces, bodies and ideas clash, merge, and reshape into something unpredictable. The process itself becomes performance.
@sock.opera.dance.company
sockoperadance.com
Photo by Carley Conder