LA Dance Calendar

Musical Theatre Jazz Class
2025-12-23 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-16 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-09 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-12-02 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-11-25 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-11-18 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | TIMELESS Studios, 5466 E La Palma Ave, Anaheim, CA, 92807, United States
Weekly open level Musical Theatre Jazz class by Nicole Craft at TIMELESS studios on Tuesdays!

Kathak Classes
2025-12-20 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-13 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-29 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-22 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Agoura Hills and Thousand Oaks
Seasoned performing artist and Kathak Guru Sona Lewis will be teaching Kathak at government institutions in Agoura Hills and Thousand Oaks from Nov 8 through Dec 20, every Saturday. Email at sonalewis1@gmail.com for additional information.

Blen Blen LA
2025-12-13 20:00 - 2025-12-14 03:00 | CA
Every 2nd Saturday Social!
Dance should be for everyone!

A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
2025-12-13 20:00 - 21:30 | The Carpenter Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, CA, 90815, United States
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham returns with captivating choreography from the company’s founder alongside a new co-commissioned piece by dancer and choreographer Jermaine Spivey. Witness emotionally stirring performances from one of contemporary dance’s leading companies. This evening’s repertoire includes Jermaine Spivey’s In the act of undoing, co-commissioned by the Carpenter Center, plusThe Gettin‘ and Dearest Home.

BODYTRAFFIC: WINTER
2025-12-13 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-12 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Bram Goldsmith Theater, 450 N Crescent Dr, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, United States
Four powerhouse works. One unforgettable evening.
This eclectic program showcases BODYTRAFFIC’s dazzling versatility with four distinct pieces that celebrate bold style, storytelling, and movement.
Flyland by David Middendorp is a heart-tugging duet blending animation, projection, and choreography to stunning effect. Cayetano Soto’s Schachmatt (Checkmate!) turns a giant chessboard into a theatrical playground, drawing inspiration from Pedro Almodóvar’s cinematic flair and Bob Fosse’s choreographic swagger.
The return of Juel D. Lane’s pulsating Incense Burning on a Saturday Morning: The Maestro is a dynamic tribute to LA painter Ernie Barnes, with vivid projections that bring his iconic artwork to life on stage. Plus, Jordyn Santiago’s Coalescence, vibrant, affirming love letter to femininity, queerness, and community.

Countertechnique with Ariel
2025-12-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
Pop-Up Countertechnique Class to finish out the year!
Thursday, December 11th – 11:00am – 12:30pm
$17 or pay what you can
Location: Stomping Ground LA

Foothills Dancemakers in Concert
2025-12-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-12-06 20:00 - 22:00 | ARC Pasadena, 1158 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91106, United States
Foothills Dancemakers, founded in 2019 as a vibrant consortium of modern dance companies in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains, announces their fourth concert in December. Benita Bike’s DanceArt, Pennington Dance Group, Nancy Evans Dance Theatre and Lineage Dance will present a joint concert Saturday, December 6th at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, December 7th at 7 p.m. at A ROOM TO CREATE in Pasadena, California.
The goal of the Foothills Dancemakers is to work together to support and bring visibility to concert modern dance in the foothills of the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys. The directors of the four companies – Benita Bike, John Pennington, Nancy Evans Doede and Hilary Thomas – represent over 150 years of combined experience producing dance work for the stage. Through this collaboration, the Foothills Dancemakers promotes a variety of invigorating dance activities serving its community and encourage joint projects by area dancemakers.

Hot Ballroom DanceSport Challenge
2025-12-06 00:00 - 2025-12-07 23:59 | Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles, 6101 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90045, United States
Description Join us for the Hot Ballroom DanceSport Challenge, an exciting two-day amateur ballroom dance competition held December 6–7, 2025! Sponsored by Dance It Up and USA Dance Los Angeles County Chapter #4031, this event welcomes dancers of all ages and levels to compete in Rhythm, Smooth, Standard, and Latin styles. Highlights include WDSF-sanctioned Open Junior II and Senior II–IV events, showcasing top amateur talent from across the country. With breathtaking performances, inspiring moments, and the joy of dance at its heart, this event promises a weekend to remember. Whether you’re dancing or cheering from the crowd, we can’t wait to see you there!
Ticket Info: Purchase Tickets: https://form.jotform.com/252157673479166

CalArts Winter Dance: James "Cricket" Colter, Micaela Taylor, sam wentz
2025-12-05 20:00 - 21:30 | REDCAT, 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
CalArts Dance presents new work by faculty and guest choreographers, performed by the students of the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance. Highlighting an eclectic array of visions, vernaculars, and kinetic identities, Winter Dance features new dances by a cross-section of Los Angeles-based choreographers.

Please note: CalArts Winter Dance may contain mature content, including adult themes and subject matter.

Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff

Belly Dance Classes North Hollywood
2025-12-03 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-11-26 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-11-19 18:30 - 20:30 | CA
Jill Collins, Director of Los Angeles’s premier Belly Dance and International Styles Dance Company, Sahlala Dancers teaches 2 open level belly dance classes: Belly Dance Basic Technique and SharQuí: The Belly Dance Workout. Learn Arabic rhythms and various technique stylization in the Basics Class, stay for a cardio workout and dance conditioning/deep stretch in the SharQuí Workout. Free parking and hip scarf provided. For info on pricing/schedule/location visit https://www.sahlaladancers.com/classes

NOW 2025: Week Three - Lu Coy, jeremy de’jon guyton, Luna Izpisua Rodriguez
2025-11-22 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-11-21 20:00 - 21:30, 2025-11-20 20:00 - 21:30 | REDCAT, 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The 22nd annual New Original Works concludes with a program of works by Lu Coy, jeremy de’jon guyton, and Luna Izpisua Rodriguez.
BUY A FESTIVAL PASS! SEE ALL 9 WORKS FOR $50!

Lu Coy
Becoming the Moon
Lu Coy (Music Performer Composer MFA 18) crafts an opera that illuminates the Florentine Codex’s account of Tecciztecatl—a gender-expansive Mexica moon deity. Blending original poetry with translation of the 16th-century Nahuatl manuscript, this performance unfolds through song, animation, storytelling, and movement. Guiding audiences through transcestral memory, Coy conjures a retelling that connects to their own lived experiences of the ache and radiance of transfeminine rebirth. Excavating queer narratives from colonial materials, Coy combines experimental electronic music with virtuosic vocal performance and pre-Columbian instrumentation in an examination of the beauty found under the cover of darkness.

jeremy de’jon guyton
notes on building a foundation, 1963
Blending lyrical text, fluid movement, and nostalgic audio-visual elements drawn from his own family archive, this poetic autofiction by jeremy de’jon guyton is a meditation on legacy, displacement, and the urgent desire for sanctuary. notes on building a foundation, 1963 brings audiences into a survival bunker where memory, movement, and myth converge as Q.S. excavates ancestral artifacts from their family’s flight Westward in 1963 and stories passed down over three generations. As Los Angeles fires, both literal and political, force new waves of migration, this interdisciplinary dance performance asks: How do we preserve what matters when the world around us is burning? This timely performance dares to reimagine survival through the unrelenting search for home.

Luna Izpisua Rodriguez
Open House
At the foreclosure sale of a beachfront home in Southern California, a realtor masked in plastic surgery feeds the desperation of ownership. Two first-time buyers grip each other in the primary closet, lost in the fantasy of a real estate flipper. Neighbors walk around nervously—who will be next? Visitors test the way their bodies sink into the shiny staging sofa, unaware that a coyote is nursing her young in the guest room. The ghosts of California’s keepers and takers slip out through the cracks in the drywall. Yet no matter what befalls, no one relinquishes the desperate belief that this land can be possessed. Directed by Luna Izpisua Rodriguez (Art and Theater Directing MFA 24), Open House is a meditation on erosion, both geological and psychic—on how losing land can feel like losing self.

NOW 2025: Week Three will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Please note: Becoming the Moon and notes on building a foundation, 1963 contain loud sounds; Open House contains nudity and mature content.
Becoming the Moon was made possible in part by a Foundation for the Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff

VULGAR
2025-11-15 20:00 - 22:00 | EVERYTHING, 500 S Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA, 91502, United States
Tickets are on sale for VULGAR, a new immersive dance theater experience coming to Burbank on Friday and Saturday, 11/14 and 15, choreographed and produced by Stephanie Mizrahi.

“VULGAR” is a satirical work that invites audiences into the social dancing culture of the 1910s while critiquing the rigid moral and gender norms of the time. Enjoy food, drinks, pre-show live music, and a comedic night-out of dance and theater!

Ticket link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vulgar-tickets-1703736133639...

Discounted tickets for professional artists and students are available!

NOW 2025: Week Two - Gabriela Burdsall; Orin Calcagne and Jenson Titus; Divya Victor, Carolyn Chen, AMOC*
2025-11-15 20:00 - 21:30 | REDCAT, 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
The 22nd annual New Original Works continues with a program of works by Gabriela Burdsall; Orin Calcagne and Jenson Titus; and Divya Victor, Carolyn Chen, AMOC*.
BUY A FESTIVAL PASS! SEE ALL 9 WORKS FOR $50!

Gabriela Burdsall
MENEO
Gabriela Burdsall presents the body as a fluid canvas for identity, resistance, and celebration in this solo dance performance. The artist takes up el meneo, a movement rooted in Caribbean social dances, in conversation with la clave, the core syncopated rhythm of Cuban music, in a dynamic interplay between rhythm, body, and cultural heritage. MENEO presents dance as a fleeting monument that questions power and its political symbols. As Burdsall’s body meanders and sways, she moves between trance-like states of ecstasy and introspection. Her raw physical presence becomes a vessel for primal energy, as the pulse viscerally binds her to history.

Orin Calcagne and Jenson Titus
Mommy
Mommy is a comedy-horror play about a family plagued by their mother’s mental illness. When Daddy announces that he will be moving his homosexual lover into the family home, an already unstable Mommy is pushed past her limit and descends into emotional chaos, dragging the rest of her family down with her. In this surreal family farce, the artists utilize their clowning backgrounds to bring humor to painful circumstances. A live foley soundscape and musical score composed and performed by Cleo Henman bring further texture to this absurd melodrama. Mommy ultimately uses comedy to dissect relationship dynamics and traditional norms in an exploration of what makes society sick.

Divya Victor, Carolyn Chen, AMOC*
Thresholds
In Thresholds, composer Carolyn Chen presents a musical adaptation of poems from Divya Victor’s books KITH and CURB, which explore immigrant experiences of everyday life amidst racist violence in the United States. Reading selections live, Victor traces an arc of arrival, assimilation, and loss as immigrants move through the paperwork of visas and citizenship, mythic underpinnings of air travel, diasporic memories of homeland, and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The music responds to the expressivity of Victor’s text with notated compositions and improvised materials developed for an ensemble integrating Western and Carnatic music assembled by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*).

NOW 2025: Week Two will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Please note: Mommy contains mature content, loud sounds, gunshot sounds, and mentions of suicide and self-harm.

* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & the CalArts faculty and staff
