LA Dance Calendar

Call for submissions - Versatility Dance Festival
2025-09-19 00:00 - 2025-09-30 23:59 (America/Los_Angeles) | Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center, 3200 Motor Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Versatility Dance Festival showcases contemporary dance at its most refined—works selected for their artistic rigor, innovative choreography, and exceptional performance. The festival’s reputation attracts industry professionals and discerning audiences who expect nothing less than the cutting edge of contemporary dance artistry.
Be a part of this high calibre community of artists by applying to perform in the 2026 festival.
www.T2DANCE.org/VDF
Deadline: Sept 30

Saturday Cuban Salsa Grooves with Kati Hernandez
2025-09-20 13:00 - 15:10, 2025-09-27 13:00 - 15:10, 2025-10-04 13:00 - 15:10, 2025-10-11 13:00 - 15:10, 2025-10-18 13:00 - 15:10 | CA
​​*Dates: 9/13** – 9/20** – 9/27 – 10/4 – 10/11 – 10/18
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*In-Person Cost: $90 Full Course
INCLUDED in the In-Person Unlimited Package.​​​
🚨 MINIMUM 10 Preregistrations needed!
**$20 drop-ins ONLY for first two classes on 9/13 and 9/20
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*Online Cost: $15 Single Drop-ins ONLY for first two classes on 9/13 and 9/20
INCLUDED in the Online Unlimited Package.
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*Location: Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4718 W. Washington Blvd, L.A.

​​Beginner and between Beginner & Intermediate level, two classes simultaneously. For those new to casino and looking to create a strong and solid foundation, or for those with knowledge of the basic moves and ready to build that knowledge. Get it right from the start!​
*​​Intermediate level. Students should have solid knowledge of the basics: dile que no, enchufla, vacilala, el uno y dos combinations.
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nora chipaumire: Dambudzo
2025-09-25 20:00 - 22:00 | REDCAT, 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
In a powerful performance incorporating dance, sound, painting, and sculpture, nora chipaumire confronts colonial legacies in a transformed REDCAT theater. Drawing inspiration from the Shona word dambudzo, meaning trouble, as well as the ideas of Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera, this new work considers the revolutionary possibilities of performance. REDCAT becomes home to a shabini—an informal bar set up in private residences where citizens gather to debate politics and plan community action. Amidst a soundscape of barking dogs and live music, visitors will be immersed in what the four-time Bessie award winner describes as “a name, a desire, a lament, an inspiration, even a loathing—a poem—that speaks to the 1980s before the fall of communism and the end of apartheid.” Reflecting on the complex struggles of her home country, Zimbabwe, chipaumire’s work expands beyond theater into a lived experience of resistance and ritual. Refusing to be confined by category or discipline, her anti-genre performance is an insurgent act of remembering, disrupting, and dreaming forward.

On September 26, there will be a post-show Q&A with nora chipaumire, moderated by REDCAT Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Performing Arts, Katy Dammers.
Presented in English and Shona.
Please note: Dambudzo contains loud sounds and low lighting.
Dambudzo is an ambulatory piece where the audience is encouraged to move through and around the space. Limited chairs will be available for those who need them. More details about accessibility can be found on our Visit page.

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

Noche Flamenca
2025-10-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Smothers Theatre, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA, 90263, United States
Founded in 1993 by Martín Santangelo and Bessie Award–winning dancer Soledad Barrio, Noche Flamenca is celebrated worldwide for its deeply emotional, authentic flamenco performances. This performance features Searching for Goya, a bold and theatrical tribute to the Spanish painter, blending dance, music, and storytelling in a series of powerful vignettes that create a communal, spellbinding experience reflecting flamenco’s raw intensity and cultural roots. Noche Flamenca regularly performs at Lincoln Center, the Joyce Theater, and across the globe, and is equally committed to education, offering outreach programs that share flamenco’s history and spirit with communities of all backgrounds.

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca: Searching For Goya
2025-10-04 20:00 - 21:30 | The Carpenter Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, CA, 90815, United States
“Internationally recognized as one of Spain’s most respected troupes, this is Flamenco in its pure essence.” —Boston Globe
Inspired by the drawings and paintings of Francisco de Goya, Noche Flamenca’s new work takes us on a journey through the Spanish artist’s graphic imagination and his response to the political turmoil and injustices of his time. Choreographed by Artistic Director Martín Santangelo and Bessie Award-winning Principal Dancer Soledad Barrio, Searching for Goya is flamenco at its most transformative. This masterful ensemble of dancers, singers, and musicians fuse theatricality with raw emotion, pushing flamenco’s boundaries in a performance as striking as Goya’s art.

FREE Somatic Movement Workshop: Body Memory Method
2025-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | The Effie House
Join The Sunflower Project for a FREE Body Memory Method workshop, facilitated by founder and choreographer Leah Zeiger. This event kicks off the Demand To Be Heard Festival — a weekend of gender-based survivor focussed arts workshops, gatherings, and performances.
Friday October 10th, 10am-12pm
3714 Effie Street, LA CA 90014
Sign up: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops
About the Body Memory Method: A somatic movement workshop that involves internal reflection, gentle guided movement, and conversations about the body’s ability to store memory and share knowledge. While this method was developed for survivors of sexual and relationship trauma, it is open to anyone with a body. Absolutely no experience in anything, other than being a human, required. Learn more: https://www.towardsthesun.org/body-memory-method
About The Sunflower Project: A Los Angeles based nonprofit that educates young people about healthy and abusive relationships and empowers survivors to share their story through artmaking. Learn more: http://www.towardsthesun.org/
About the Festival: Participate in three movement, writing, and theater workshops, watch the award winning documentary “Untold” with a special panel discussion, and be in the audience to witness our inaugural cohort of resident artists perform live music, dance, and theater that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Events happen throughout Los Angeles October 10th-12th, and tickets are on sale now! Explore the festival and grab your tickets here: https://www.towardsthesun.org/festival
Sign up for the workshop: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops

Jazz Rock Workshop with Robert Modestine
2025-10-11 13:00 - 14:30 | The Spot, 11119 Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood, CA, 91601, United States
✨ For the first time in LA, we welcome Robert Modestine, one of the original Jazz Rock pioneers of France ✨
From the Paris clubs of the 80s to inspiring generations of dancers worldwide, his style carries the roots, history, and soul of the culture.
🔥 Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn directly from an OG and experience Jazz Rock in its purest form 🔥

Afro Jazz/Amapiano Workshop with Darren & Willis
2025-10-11 14:30 - 16:00 | The Spot, 11119 Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood, CA, 91601, United States
✨ Afro Jazz meets Amapiano in LA ✨
All the way from France, Darren & Willis, internationally renowned dancers, choreographers, and creators, are bringing their unique vibes and energy for a workshop you don’t want to miss!
Known for blending Afro Jazz precision with the soulful grooves of Amapiano, they’ve inspired dancers across Europe and beyond.
🔥 Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from two of the youngest most talented dancers in the world 🔥

Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final Los Angeles
2025-10-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Intuit Dome, 3930 West Century Blvd, Inglewood, CA, 90303, United States
For the first time ever, Los Angeles will host the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final on October 11, 2025!
After World Finals in cities across the globe, the City of Angels will welcome the best international street dancers to perform in this unique one-on-one mixed-style dance battle, where you – the audience – decide who takes home the coveted title.
Buy your tickets now now for the most electrifying street dance event of the year or watch the livestream on Red Bull TV on October 11th at 9PM PDT.
Subscribe to Red Bull Dance on YouTube and follow @redbulldance on Instagram & TikTok for more Red Bull Dance Your Style content.

How it works
Red Bull Dance Your Style – where you decide who wins.

What is it?
1v1 street dance freestyle bracket competition.

The twist?
Competitors have NO idea what song will play for their round(s). It’s all surprise tracks!

What’s in it for me?
In this competition, the CROWD is the judge, YOU get to decide who wins it all.

Bodies in Play / Work in Process
2025-10-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Pieter Performance Space, 2109 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, United States
SAVE THE DATE: October 11, 7:30 @pieterperformancespace
Bodies in Play / Work in Process (BiP / WiP) is our choreographic research series dedicated to identifying and practicing choreographic methods rooted in shared ownership, consent, and play.
BiP/WiP II featuring work by @celinesauquillodavis @tiffanysweat @dzzphases @darby_epperson @cristinamariaflorez_ @krumpmasterkrump @andrew.pearson.la @saydjane @iamrachelwhiting

Brazilian Partner dance, Forró dance workshop and party
2025-10-11 19:30 - 2025-10-12 00:30 | Tropico De Nopal Gallery Art-Space, 1665 Beverly Blvd, Los angeles, CA, 90026, United States
🎶 Forró Night @ Trópico de Nopal 🌴
Saturday, October 11 | Los Angeles
Join us for a beautiful evening of music, dance, and community at the most charming patio in LA – @tropicodenopal! 💃🏽🕺🏽
🎧 Music by:
✨@yukicito – spinning his signature remixes & Forró favorites
✨ reyes– special vinyl set to keep you dancing all night
🕢 7:30 PM Special Forró Workshop with RafaWilker
🎉 8:30 PM – Party starts!
Cover:
$20 – Workshop + Party
$15 – Party only (after 8:30 PM)
📍 Trópico de Nopal
1665 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Let’s dance under the stars and celebrate the rhythm of Brazil! 🇧🇷✨
Free parking next to the venue.
#brasil #forró #braziliandance #brazilianmusic #la #latindance #dtla

Live Kathak Performance
2025-10-11 20:00 - 21:00 | Victory Theater, Burbank, United States
Some of the best solo artists will be performing live at Victory Theater in Burbank 8 PM, Oct 11, 2025. Tickets at LAWTF.ORG

Blen Blen LA
2025-10-11 20:00 - 2025-10-12 03:00 | CA
Every 2nd Saturday Social!
Dance should be for everyone!

Sparks: Theater Tools for Multidisciplinary Artists
2025-10-12 10:30 - 12:00 | ARC Pasadena, 1158 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91106, United States
Join The Sunflower Project for a ‘Sparks: Theater Tools for Multidisciplinary Artists’ workshop, facilitated by director, dramaturg, and creative producer Diana Wyenn. This event is part of the Demand To Be Heard Festival — a weekend of gender-based survivor focussed arts workshops, gatherings, and performances.
Sunday October 12th, 10:30am-12:00pm
A Room to Create (ARC) Studios, Pasadena CA
Sign up: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops
About the Workshop: Director, dramaturg, and creative producer Diana Wyenn will share generative theater techniques that artists across disciplines can use to uncover new insights, connections, and relationships to their work, ideas, and bodies. Through voice, gesture, and spontaneous play, participants will explore how the body holds ideas and memories—revealing creative impulses and offering practical tools they can apply to brainstorming, devising, or refining their work. Open to all; no prior experience required.
About The Sunflower Project: A Los Angeles based nonprofit that educates young people about healthy and abusive relationships and empowers survivors to share their story through artmaking. Learn more: http://www.towardsthesun.org/
About the Festival: Participate in three movement, writing, and theater workshops, watch the award winning documentary “Untold” with a special panel discussion, and be in the audience to witness our inaugural cohort of resident artists perform live music, dance, and theater that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Events happen throughout Los Angeles October 10th-12th, and tickets are on sale now! Explore the festival and grab your tickets here. Learn more: https://www.towardsthesun.org/festival
Sign up for the workshop: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops
Single workshop cost: $20
Two workshop pass: $35
Workshop donations are tax deductible!

Survivor Artist Showcase: Demand To Be Heard!
2025-10-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Wisteria Theater, 7061 Vineland Ave, North Hollywood, CA, 91605, United States
An evening of Survivor-created dance, music, and theater in Los Angeles! One night only, four world premieres!
The Sunflower Project has been supporting 4 artists in residence over the past 6 months in creating new performances that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Experience the profound, intimate, vulnerable, brave work these 4 artists have created in an evening of multi-disciplinary performances.
Tickets are limited, get yours before they sell out! Tickets at: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/dtbh-festival-resident-artist-showcase
About The Sunflower Project: A Los Angeles based nonprofit that educates young people about healthy and abusive relationships and empowers survivors to share their story through artmaking. Learn more: http://www.towardsthesun.org/
About the Festival: Participate in three movement, writing, and theater workshops, watch the award winning documentary “Untold” with a special panel discussion, and be in the audience to witness our inaugural cohort of resident artists perform live music, dance, and theater that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Events happen throughout Los Angeles October 10th-12th, and tickets are on sale now! Explore the festival and grab your tickets here: https://www.towardsthesun.org/festival

Benita Bike's DanceArt at Mission College
2025-10-14 16:00 - 17:15 | Los Angeles Mission College AMP Theater, 13356 Eldridge Ave., Los Angeles (Sylmar), CA, 91342, United States
Join students, faculty, and community members on Tuesday, October 14, 4pm for a FREE eye-opening dance performance by Benita Bike’s DanceArt at Los Angeles Mission College’s lovely AMP Theatre. See beautiful dancing and ask the questions you’ve always wanted to ask about dancers and dancing.

Musical Theatre Jazz Class
2025-10-14 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-10-21 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!

David Roussève/REALITY: Becoming Daddy AF
2025-10-17 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-10-18 20:00 - 22:00 | UCLA Nimoy Theater, 1262 Westwood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
“Roussève is one of the modern dance world’s great stage personalities.” —The Washington Post
Celebrated dance-theater artist David Roussève creates his first full-length solo performance in more than 20 years. Becoming Daddy AF is an intimate meditation on life’s purpose, created and performed by a queer African American acutely aware of the finite time he has left on the planet.
Like strands of DNA, it connects elements encoded in his body, including 600 years of genealogy (from France, Portugal Germany, Mali, Senegal, Haiti, and Cuba), a roller coaster journey with HIV, and the shattering loss of a husband of 26 years — while revisiting movement from 35 years of dance-making to explore the meaning of virtuosity for a 65-year old body. Becoming Daddy AF is the portrait of a man defying death, though he is unable to fully embrace life.

Celebrating 15 years of Brockus Project Studios and 25 years of Brockus Project Dance
2025-10-17 20:30 - 22:00, 2025-10-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-19 19:00 - 22:00 | brockus project studios, 618 B Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, United States
A 3-day celebration connecting people past and present whose lives have been impacted by the work of the Brockus Project in supporting dance in LA.
Our opening showcase on Friday features some of the residency choreographers we have fostered. The closing showcase on Sunday features a choreography competition showcase where the audience votes to select the winner of 30 hours of free studio time!
The main event is Saturday, featuring BrockusRED & friends in a short performance, followed by a party reception with a raffle/auction and tributes to the accomplishments of the Brockus Project over the years. We aim to collect 1,500 comments from individuals we have impacted and raise $15,000 to support our continued growth for the next 15 years.
BPStudios was created to provide a home base for companies that had been nomadic and rehearsing all over the city. Now they have a home where dancers meet up in the lobby and build community in a space that celebrates art and artists.
Over the years BP has held training classes, workshops with leading teachers, hosted international groups, residencies, town halls, gather hangouts, after school teen programs, in school K-12 classes, created and produced LA Dance Festival, combined auditions, dance film screenings, professional development workshops, a food bank and thrift store, foster kitten playtime, produced over a hundred showcases, performed in France, Korea and around the country, and so much more.
www.brockusprojectdance.org

Olé Los Angeles - LA Soundscapes Family Concerts
2025-10-19 11:30 - 17:00 | The Ford, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Los Angeles, CA, 90068, United States
María “La Chacha” Bermúdez, artistic director of Olé Los Angeles, invites audiences of all ages to experience lively, traditional flamenco dance while learning up close about this unique art form. With live music and dancers, the program features high-energy performances, storytelling through movement, and interactive moments that explore the improvisational Spanish dance. Come early as members of Flamenco! Santa Barbara lead family friendly activities.
Each LA Soundscapes family event features a pre-concert activity and participatory artmaking.

10am: Interactive activities and curated art-making in collaboration with LA Commons
11:30am: Performance
Best for: Ages 3–11
Attendee tip: These are daytime events and can get sunny. Don’t forget your sunscreen and sun hats! Due to the natural shift of the sun during this morning performance, as available, audience members can shift into shaded locations.

House Dance Class
2025-10-21 20:00 - 21:30 | Piyoda Flow, 2803 Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90016, United States
House dance foundations class, all levels

L.A. DANCE PROJECT: GEMS
2025-10-23 19:30 - 21:30 | Bram Goldsmith Theater, 450 N Crescent Dr, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, United States
Discover a ballet triptych by Benjamin Millepied celebrating the unity of dance, music, and visual art.
Commissioned by Van Cleef & Arpels, this trilogy of contemporary ballets—Reflections (2013), Hearts & Arrows (2014), and On the Other Side (2016)—draws inspiration from the symbolic and emotional resonance of precious stones. Each work offers a distinct world where movement, music, and design converge to reveal something luminous and intimate.
Presented together for the first time in the U.S. by the Wallis Center for the Performing Arts and L.A. Dance Project, the triptych marks the culmination of a creative journey spanning over a decade.
Reflections is a meditation on longing—sensual, sharp-edged, and fleeting. Set to David Lang’s haunting score and framed by Barbara Kruger’s bold visual language, the ballet explores the tension between presence and absence, desire and memory.
Hearts & Arrows pulses with crystalline energy, carried by the precise, layered rhythms of Philip Glass. Liam Gillick’s sculptural design of shifting light and shadow becomes a silent partner to the choreography, where emotion takes on an architectural clarity.
On the Other Side is a deeply human work—intimate, emotional, and communal. Set to a suite of piano études by Glass and enveloped by Mark Bradford’s immersive, painterly set, the ballet becomes a portrait of togetherness, tracing the bonds between individuals and the quiet strength of collective experience
