This “Dance in America” special features highlights from Wolf Trap’s “Face of America” initiative, which commissions new works by the country’s top choreographers and musicians, with the ultimate goal of fostering a commitment to preserve national parks.

"Face of America," an initiative of the nonprofit Wolf Trap foundation for the Performing Arts, celebrates the diversity of America's cultural and natural landscapes by commissioning new works by the country's top choreographers and musicians, with the ultimate goal of fostering a commitment to preserve national parks. This "Dance in America" special features highlights from Wolf Trap's "Face of America" commissions: Project Bandaloop at Yosemite National Park, featuring the work of choreographer Amelia Rudolph and Native-American composer Robert Mirabal; the work of jazz composer Steve Turre and choreographer Donald Byrd at Virgin Islands National Park, featuring members of Byrd's troupe at the site of an early sugar cane plantation; members of the U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swim Team performing underwater in Coral Reef National Monument; choreographer Doug Varone interpreting the songs of country music singer Patti Loveless at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park; a celebration of flight by chorographer Elizabeth Streb at Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk; and the dancers and musicians of Halau O Kekuhi at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.