LA Dance Calendar

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 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

Musical Theatre Jazz Class
2026-02-03 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-02-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-02-17 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-02-24 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!

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.

COMPAGNIE HERVÉ KOUBI: SOL INVICTUS
2026-02-19 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-20 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-02-21 14:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Bram Goldsmith Theater, 450 N Crescent Dr, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, United States
“The dancers … could be mistaken for gods,” raves The New Yorker. And in the hands of choreographer Hervé Koubi, they nearly are: fierce, weightless, and a step beyond human.
With their show Sol Invictus, Compagnie Hervé Koubi delivers a breathtaking baroque dreamscape. Muscular and sublime, the dancers move through light and shadow, echoing the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio and the raw physicality of street dance.
Koubi is known for his fusion of classical dance, capoeira, hip-hop, and martial arts. He draws on these influences and his French-Algerian roots to gather a collective of dancers from across the Mediterranean. They unite to explore resilience.
Named for the ancient Roman “Unconquered Sun” deity, Sol Invictus is a call for unity. “Here,” says Koubi, “sun and dance will emerge victorious.” The show’s power comes not only from movement, but also from a driving score, with music by Swedish composer Mikael Karlsson, minimalist composer Steve Reich, and digital composer Maxime Bodson.

THE UKRAINE’S GRAND KYIV BALLET PRESENTS SNOW WHITE
2026-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Wilshire Ebell Theatre, 4401 W 8th St, Los Angeles, CA, 90005, United States
Back by popular demand, the Ukraine’s Grand Kyiv Ballet returns to Los Angeles for one night with Snow White: Thursday, Feb. 26th, 7 pm at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre. The performance will be brought to life by the talented Mykola Khoma and Chihiro Tamai.

The Grand Kyiv Ballet aims to raise enough money through their performances to restore the Main Ballet Academy of Ukraine and the children’s dormitory in the wake of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Choreographers Guild
2026-02-28 12:00 - 14:30 | TMilly Studio, 5348 Cleon Ave, North Hollywood, CA, 91601, United States
🚨THIS SATURDAY🚨Do not miss this month’s CG Masterclass + Q&A series @tmillystudio from 12 – 2:30pm, featuring visionary director, choreographer, and dancer CODIE WIGGINS (@seewiggins)! Codie seamlessly blends his southern roots with a cosmopolitan flair where his work can be seen across music, advertising, and film. He’s worked with top artists such as Usher, Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake, notable brands such as Nike and Old Navy, and major films including Pitch Perfect 1 and 2, the Netflix Original Work It, and so much more!
After class, stay for an engaging talkback session with two special guest choreographers AJ Harpold (@ajhardpold) and Cassidy Ratliff (@cassidyratliff) for an in-depth conversation about their creative perspectives and experiences working as assistants and associate choreographers.
📍 TMILLY STUDIO, North Hollywood
📅 February 28 | 12:00 – 2:30PM
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💫 Access Check-in: If you are in need of accommodations, please let us know how we can support you by emailing info@choreographersguild.org.

Benita Bike's DanceArt at Manhattan Beach Library
2026-02-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Manhattan Beach Library, 1320 Highland Ave., Manhattan Beach, CA, CA, 90266, United States
Benita Bike’s DanceArt, the Los Angeles based chamber modern dance company, will present a unique program of dance at the Manhattan Beach Library on Saturday, February, 28, at 2:00 pm. This program is FREE, but registration is required: https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/15385159. This event is generously sponsored by Manhattan Beach Friends of the Library.
In this unique dance performance, audience members will not only see beautiful dancers dance, but they will also be invited to participate in audience discussions of the dances performed. The DanceArt artists are skilled at introducing concert dance to those new to concert dance, but they also provide an enriching experience to those who are long-time dance viewers.
This performance features “From Where I Sit,” where personalities reveal themselves in vignettes titled “Ascending,” “Tired of it All,” “Corruptor,” “Solace,” & “On Edge.” In addition, viewers will see “Benches,” a quartet set to driving steel drum music, and “Aspects of Me,” a series of solos and duets that include “Me and Myself,” “Me and the Branch,” “Me and Her,” and “We.”
