Vibrations Dance Company
History
It was 1998 when Vibrations Dance Company was established in Columbia, South Carolina by dance instructor-fitness guru Evie Belton and her business partner, T. Michael Wright.
VDC came forth from the vision to establish an ensemble—a dance collective— to explore and express the African-American aesthetic through the performance of spiritual, blues, modern, and jazz dances… Dances that reflect and exhibit African-American social, cultural and artistic existence throughout the world, especially in the United States.
The company’s wide ranging repertoire would include traditional, contemporary, experimental and avant-garde approaches/genres and encompass those dance styles, traditions, movements, and expressions of peoples from the Caribbean; African-Americans; and indigenous Africans, as well as European and European American.
VDC’s primary creative objective would be the aesthetic expression of African-American dance in its various manifestations throughout the Diaspora, as well as the African-American aesthetics’ treatment and interpretation of other cultural dance traditions.
VDC’s dancers are from diverse social, cultural and regional backgrounds, including Richland Northeast High School student, Shalaine Archie and Harvard graduate, Deborah Chan-Friday.
South Carolina’s own Terrance Henderson serves as Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer. The Newberry native-son calls upon his studies of West African dance, tap, jazz, modern and ballet to craft VDC’s imaginative and awe-inspiring works of grace, strength and beauty
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