LA Dance Calendar

Dance Camera West Honors David Roussève
2026-01-22 19:30 - 23:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, 10361 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
Four films directed by David Roussève will be screened including Bittersweet, Chili Pepper, Two Seconds After Laughter, and Pull Your Head to the Moon.
Following the Screening and Talk Back, guests are invited to step onto the stage of TRK for a one-of-a-kind Gala honoring David for his remarkable artistic vision and impact in the field of dance and dance film. Surrounded by the magic of film, guests will enjoy an intimate evening with live music, sumptuous food and bar, all on the stage that is usually reserved for performers. *Tickets are priced at $150 with pass holder discount available.
All ticket purchases support DCW’s pillar programs to Prepare: Produce and Present the best dance films in Los Angeles including DCW’s Signature VISIBILITY production fund for L.A. based dance film makers.

Dance Camera West 2026 International Film Festival
2026-01-22 19:30 - 2026-01-25 19:30 | Theatre Raymond Kabbaz, 10361 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
JANUARY 22-25, 2026 AT 3 VENUES ACROSS LOS ANGELES

Benita Bike's DanceArt at Discovery Cube Los Angeles
2026-01-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Discovery Cube LA, 11800 Foothill Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 91342, United States
On Saturday and Sunday, January 24 & 25, 2026, 1:00 pm, Benita Bike’s DanceArt will perform at Discovery Cube Los Angeles, a STEM-based children’s museum. This performance is one of a number of dance related events that are part of Discovery Cube’s Science of Dance Weekend. Discovery Cube Los Angeles is located at 11800 Foothill Blvd in Los Angeles (Sylmar). Benita Bike’s DanceArt will present excerpts from various dances interspersed with information about dance, Q&A, and a special “try-out-the-moves” session with DanceArt’s professional dancers. Museum visitors will learn how dances are made, how dancers prepare for performance, and why dancers dance!

Benita Bike's DanceArt at Discovery Cube Los Angeles
2026-01-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-01-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Discovery Cube LA, 11800 Foothill Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 91342, United States
On Saturday and Sunday, January 24 & 25, 2026, 1:00 pm, Benita Bike’s DanceArt will perform at Discovery Cube Los Angeles, 11800 Foothill Blvd, Los Angeles
The Company will present excerpts from various dances interspersed with information about dance, Q&A, and a special “try-out-the-moves” session with DanceArt’s dancers. Museum visitors will learn how dances are made, how dancers prepare for performance, and why dancers dance!

LA POPS UP, nine new shorts by SoCal Choreographers, followed by L.A. Premiere of Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber's WAITING PLACES
2026-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Colburn Zipper Hall, 200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
LA POPS UP is a groundbreaking new project spearheaded by Hysterica Productions (Kitty McNamee) and Dance Camera West showcasing the personal vision of SoCal’s most influential choreographers that highlights the extraordinary talent within this diverse dance community. This year’s program is co-curated by Trudl Zipper Dance Institute Artistic Director Janie Taylor.

WORKSHOP: Concepts, Cuts and Shirley Clarke, led by Karen Pearlman
2026-01-25 13:00 - 16:00 | The Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, United States
A 3-hour interactive workshop to develop creative ideas. Participate in a series of embodied exercises designed to catalyze concepts, images, sounds, movement motifs, structures, and rhythms for new screen dance works. Excerpts and examples of key cinematic moments from films directed and edited by Shirley Clarke will be jumping off points for exploring ideas in motion and editing as a generative art. Workshop leader Karen Pearlman will bring core principles from her recent books – ‘Cutting Rhythms: Creative Film Editing’ and ‘Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement’ – to life in a workshop designed to enhance and empower kineasthetic creativity. (space is limited)

Musical Theatre Jazz Class
2026-01-27 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-02-03 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-02-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-02-17 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!

CELEBRATING OUR PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: 20 YEARS OF LOS ANGELES BALLET
2026-01-29 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-01-30 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-01-31 19:30 - 21:30 | Bram Goldsmith Theater, 450 N Crescent Dr, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, United States
For nearly 20 years, the Los Angeles Ballet has captivated the City of Angels with its daring creativity, elegance, and breathtaking artistry. Now, LAB prepares for this milestone with a triple bill of iconic works and undaunted new beginnings, all brimming with heart and playfulness.

The evening includes Balanchine’s jazz-infused delight Rubies—an energetic reprise from LAB’s first-ever season. Hans Van Manen’s Frank Bridge Variations pairs Benjamin Britten’s lush score with an abstract expression of sensuality and, at times, explosive emotion. It is a powerful blend of classicism, spirited wit, and modern intensity.

Finally, in a moment charged with anticipation, LAB’s Artistic Director Melissa Barak unveils a world premiere, showcasing the forward-motion that continues to define the company.

Versatility Dance Festival
2026-01-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center, 3200 Motor Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90034, United States
Captivating performances from nationwide dance companies.

Now in its eighth year, Versatility Dance Festival presents a curated selection of contemporary dance companies and dance filmmakers from around the country and beyond. One night of great dance on stage and screen, providing audiences with a wonderful unique arts experience while also providing dance companies with more performance/screening and networking opportunities.
Info and line-up at www.T2DANCE.org/VDF

VULGAR
2026-01-31 19:30 - 22:00 | EVERYTHING, 500 S Victory Blvd, Burbank, CA, 91502, United States
“VULGAR” is a satirical dance theater performance that invites audiences into the social dancing culture of the 1910s while critiquing the rigid moral and gender norms of the time. “VULGAR” was inspired by an original copy of the 1914 book Modern Dancing by Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle, a seminal text that both instructed readers on proper social dance techniques and served as a moral guide, imploring proper etiquette as a way to curb one’s vulgar tendencies. The performance blends historical and contemporary movement, spoken text read from Modern Dancing, and theatrical staging to invoke a humorous yet thought-provoking commentary on societal expectations, past and present.

MAJOR by Ogemdi Ude
2026-02-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Bovard Auditorium, 3551 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, United States
Don’t miss the Los Angeles premiere of MAJOR, a dynamic new dance theatre performance exploring the history and carrying on the legacy of majorette dance.
In MAJOR, Brooklyn-based dance, theatre, and interdisciplinary artist and educator Ogemdi Ude mashes up majorette movement, verbatim theatre, and oral history to examine the dance form’s history and physicality, and explore how Black culture relocates, persists, and transforms over time and places.
“Exploring majorette practice is such a sweet nostalgic journey, and deeply humbling,” says Ude, who was included in Dance Magazine’s list of “25 to Watch” in 2022. She explains, “The challenge of this piece lies in reorganizing the body to dance in the ways you were born to, but have been trained out of. In MAJOR, audiences follow the intimate journey of returning to a body that you have lost.”
Accompanied by a digital archive featuring interviews with multigenerational HBCU majorettes, MAJOR is a dynamic love letter to the folks who taught the team how to be proudly Black and proudly femme.
Choreographed to a score that integrates Southern rap, horns, drumlines, melodic R&B, and soul, the exciting and original performance will be followed by a conversation with Ude and performers.

Default: Joy
2026-02-06 20:00 - 21:00, 2026-02-07 20:00 - 21:00, 2026-02-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Default: Joy is a dystopian dance-theatre work that asks a deceptively question: If everything collapses, what is your default setting?
Driven by spiraling rhythms and ecstatic motion the work unfolds as a collective search for joy. Grounded footwork, interlaced bodies, and shifting ensemble formations generate a shared terrain where vulnerability, resistance, and exhilaration coexist. Through it, joy emerges as an act of defiance.
Set as a response to what is happening in the world, Default: Joy aims to confront numbness, panic, and exhaustion, insisting on presence and collective momentum. What remains is a state of liberation forged through intensity, endurance, and shared action.

Dancing Through Prison Walls: FREEDOM TIME
2026-02-06 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-02-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-02-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Odyssey Theatre, 2055 S Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Dancing Through Prison Walls presents the West coast premiere of FREEDOM TIME, performing new dances sent from incarcerated kin in Puerto Rico, Michigan, Ohio, New York, and Palestine.
Including Mohamed Abo-Bargs, Denise Blasor, Suchi Branfman, Jay Carlon, Selina Ho, Kenji Igus, Brianna Mims, Amy Oden, Romarilyn Ralston, Terry Sakamoto, Tom Tsai, this work is “a love letter, a roadmap, and a refusal to succumb to incapacitation.” (Romarilyn Ralston, formerly incarcerated for over two decades).

Movement For Actors Workshop
2026-02-07 12:00 - 16:00 | LACAE, 11031 Camarillo St North Hollywood, CA 91602, North Hollywood, California, 91602
Recommended For: Actors and dancers at any stage who want to deepen physical awareness, expressive range, and embodied storytelling. If you want to feel more connected to your body onstage and on camera, this workshop is a great place to start. Movement for Actors creates space to explore how physicality shapes character, behavior, and storytelling. You’ll work with tools that help you open up, move with intention, and build characters from a fuller physical life. Whether you’re brand new to movement or coming in with a dance background you want to deepen, this class meets you where you are. Expect a class that’s revelatory, expressive, and—yes—genuinely fun. By the end of the workshop, you’ll walk away with: A clearer understanding of how your body supports your acting Practical movement habits for auditions, rehearsal, and scene work Greater confidence and freedom in how you physically show up as an artist This workshop is open to all levels, including dancers who want to bring more storytelling into their physical work. Early Registration Ends January 20 About the Instructor Jamie Nichols is a celebrated dancer, choreographer, and educator with over two decades leading the contemporary dance company Fast Feet. Her work is known for emotional intensity and detailed movement and has earned multiple Lester Horton Dance Awards. Jamie brings her powerful contemporary movement approach to LACAE’s Adult Workshops in Dance and Movement for Actors and is a respected curator and advocate within the Los Angeles dance community.

Gala of Love
2026-02-14 17:00 - 23:00, 2026-02-15 14:00 - 17:00 | TLC Blackbox Theater, 7915 Lindsey Ave., Reseda, Ca, 91335, United States
The special event features six professional ballet dancers performing romantic pas de deux, along with a short excerpt from the Emmy-winning documentary “Everybody Dance,” supporting the nonprofit Ballet For All Kids, which provides dance education for children with special needs.

Blen Blen LA
2026-02-14 20:00 - 2026-02-15 03:00 | CA
Every 2nd Saturday Social!
Dance should be for everyone!

Never Here
2026-02-15 15:00 - 16:30, 2026-02-15 19:00 - 20:30 | CA
Never Here – an evening of bold contemporary dance by Westside Dance Project, featuring live music and fearless, young artists.

Never Here is an evening of contemporary dance presented by Westside Dance Project, marking the company’s first season under co-directors Corwin Barnette and Troy Herring.
The performance features original choreography by Corwin Barnette, Troy Herring, Norbert De La Cruz III, Imani Frazier, Juliano Nunes, Ethan Colangelo, Akira Uchida, and Tiare Keeno, performed by a remarkable group of pre-professional dancers known for their technical strength, musicality, and expressive depth.
With themes of presence, impermanence, and connection woven throughout the evening, Never Here invites audiences into a dynamic and emotionally resonant experience. The performance is accompanied by live music and original scoring by Philip Daniel, creating an immersive dialogue between movement and sound.
Runtime: approximately 90 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.
Seating: reserved seating.
