LA Dance Calendar

¿Con Qué se Come?
2026-04-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2026-04-18 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Glorya Kaufman Hall, Room 200, UCLA, 120 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90077, United States
Queer Chicanx Dance Theater – Reimagining the quinceañera as ritual, exclusion, and belonging through abstraction and memory.
World Arts & Cultures/Dance presents ¿Con Qué Se Come? as part of UCLA’s MFA Upstarts Series 2026. Choreographed and directed by Gilberto Martinez Martinez. 10 performers in this evening-length dance theater work investigating the cultural, religious, and social strutted embedded within the quinceañera tradition and take into consideration, their impact on queer Chicanx subjectivity. The performance draws from its emotional and ceremonial logics: processions, preparation, spectacle, communal celebration, and expectation, to construct an abstracted world of ritual and transformation. Movement is developed through gestural research, familial ritual practices, Catholic iconography, collective improvisation, and social dance vernaculars that echo the celebratory aesthetics of a quinceañera. ¿Con Qué Se Come? asks What does it mean to celebrate when the celebration was not meant for us?

Musical Theatre Jazz Class
2026-04-21 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-04-28 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-05-05 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-05-12 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-05-19 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-05-26 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-06-02 18:30 - 20:00, 2026-06-09 18:30 - 20:00 and 8 more dates | 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!

45th Anniversary Celebration Show
2026-04-25 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Lineage Performing Arts Center, 920 Mountain St., Pasadena, CA, 91104, United States
Benita Bike’s DanceArt celebrates its 45th season of dance April 25 & 26 at the lovely Lineage Performing Arts Center, 920 E. Mountain Steet in Pasadena, California. Among the multitude of dance expressions in Southern California, Benita Bike’s DanceArt holds a special place as a company working in the modern dance style/state-of-mind. The Company strives to create expressive movement that fills the space architecturally with line and design. This 45th Anniversary show will feature concert works created between 2017 and 2026.

DANCING WITH BOB: RAUSCHENBERG, BROWN & CUNNINGHAM ONSTAGE
2026-05-07 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-08 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-05-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Bram Goldsmith Theater, 450 N Crescent Dr, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, United States
Witness another side of Robert Rauschenberg in Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown & Cunningham Onstage, a tribute marking the centennial of this American iconoclast. Rauschenberg is known for his visual art and sculptures, but he was also an avid cross-disciplinary collaborator—most frequently with choreographic legends Trisha Brown and Merce Cunningham. Together, these three figures revolutionized dance, sound, and visual art.
Trisha Brown Dance Company and Merce Cunningham Trust join forces, presenting Brown’s Set and Reset, hailed by the New York Times as “unmistakably Miss Brown at her most tantalizing.” Accompanied by Laurie Anderson’s bewitching electronic score, the choreography ripples with hypnotic, fluid energy.
Dive into Cunningham’s rarely seen comedic piece Travelogue, created with John Cage and Rauschenberg in 1977. This vaudevillian pièce de résistance showcases dancers in playful, absurd exchanges—deadpan yet brilliantly expressive.
Join us for this exhilarating retrospective on three artists whose synergy redefined creative expression.

Blen Blen LA
2026-05-09 20:00 - 2026-05-10 03:00, 2026-06-13 20:00 - 2026-06-14 03:00, 2026-07-11 20:00 - 2026-07-12 03:00, 2026-08-08 20:00 - 2026-08-09 03:00 | CA
Every 2nd Saturday Social!
Dance should be for everyone!

BODYTRAFFIC SUMMER
2026-06-04 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-06-05 19:30 - 21:30, 2026-06-06 14:00 - 16:00 | Bram Goldsmith Theater, 450 N Crescent Dr, Beverly Hills, CA, 90210, United States
Ma Maison
with Live Music by Preservation Hall Jazz Band
“Vibrant New Orleans-style jazz and brilliant contemporary ballet” (L.A. Times) take the stage with an unforgettable evening featuring a landmark work by BODYTRAFFIC Creative Partner and choreographic icon Trey McIntyre.
In Ma Maison, McIntyre pays tribute to the vibrant life-and-death rituals of New Orleans, with BODYTRAFFIC’s dancers moving in communion with the electrifying live sounds of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Performed with musicians on stage and featuring intricate, newly reconstructed costumes, this rare restaging is both a remembrance and a celebration of a vibrant jazz tradition.
Through McIntyre’s signature blend of cinematic flair and musicality, this program showcases BODYTRAFFIC’s technical virtuosity, emotional depth, and sleek style.
