This year’s guest adjudicator is Matthew Farmer, a 2004 Hope graduate who is co-artistic director of RusticGroove Dance Co. and head of dance at Anderson University in Indiana. Farmer majored in theater and minored in dance at Hope, and also earned a master’s degree in dance performance/choreography at the University of Michigan.
His national and international performance credits include Peter Sparling Dance Company, Next Step Dance, LehrerDance and InTheBody; and his choreography has been produced by a number of dance companies, theaters, schools and universities across the United States and Europe.
The Dow Center dance studio is on the second floor of the Dow Center, 168 E. 13th St.; and the Knickerbocker Theater is located at 86 E. Eighth St.




