LA Dance Calendar

you have form you asshole: a workshop in making with Miguel Gutierrez
2026-08-31 12:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-01 12:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-02 12:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-03 12:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-04 12:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
I think of choreography as a framework for building meaning from your personal strangeness. To me, dance is not a language but an affective mode of perception that enfolds, processes, sits alongside or possibly extends beyond language. Even before you work on an idea, you are already a proposal – a body is a proposal! In this workshop we will approach making dances/performances as opportunities for inviting complexity and building associations between seemingly unrelated movements/actions/behaviors. I want to resist the seduction of “legibility” or the supremacy of the “concept.” We will work with improvisation as a strategy for awakening complexity of thought and desire (difference is already in you, in us, and in the room). How do we welcome and shape intricacy? What is the balance between what you demand and what you allow? I approach these questions and interests from a lifetime of fascinations with queerness, political organizing and its discontents, the intra and interpersonal dynamics that govern art making processes, the clarifying and confusing forces of wanting to be seen (ambition/market/relationship to institution/love), and how to think of “abstraction” as a portal to finding other ways of surviving the brutality of the world.
To register, please write manager@miguelgutierrez.org

Musical Theatre Jazz Class
2026-09-01 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-09-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-09-15 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-09-22 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-09-29 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-10-06 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-10-13 18:30 - 20:00 | 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!

Blen Blen LA
2026-09-12 20:00 - 2026-09-13 03:00, 2026-10-10 20:00 - 2026-10-11 03:00, 2026-11-14 20:00 - 2026-11-15 03:00, 2026-12-12 20:00 - 2026-12-13 03:00 | CA
Every 2nd Saturday Social!
Dance should be for everyone!

Summer Institute
2027-01-16 09:00 - 17:00, 2027-05-22 09:00 - 17:00 | Luna Dance & Creativity, Berkeley, CA, United States
Now in its 24th year, Summer Institute (SI) is a nationally-acclaimed, year-long professional development experience centered on the art of teaching dance to children of all ages. Bringing together teaching artists and education practitioners to activate and inspire individual and collective imaginations, SI includes in-person intensives, Zoom sessions, and individualized coaching.
In-person dates: July 13-17, January 16-17, May 22
No cost for selected applicants. Application due April 30
Who should apply?
– Educators seeking to dive into creativity, child development, and learning theories and practice
– Dance teaching artists poised to take their curricula to the next level of creative rigor and inquiry
– Seasoned classroom teachers ready to infuse dance into their programs
