LA Dance Calendar

Performa Choreographic Incubator
2025-03-31 12:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | LA Dance Project, 2245 East Washington Blvd., LOS ANGELES, CA, 90021, United States
Performa is a laboratory for brave new dance in LA! This 5 week container is a practical option for dance-makers who want space, time, and fresh perspectives to create something powerfully their own.
Drop-in weekly to practice editing skills and develop your creative vision in a structured environment free from mirrors, music, or predetermined technique. Examine liveness, where information emanates from in a dance, and how choreographic structure becomes a potent source for meaning-making.
Gain support and guidance in an inspiring, rigorous, low-stakes environment that is all about community. Embrace your curiosities, focus independently, and adapt collaboratively with a forward-looking approach. Make your own work now.
What you get:
• 12.5 hrs of movement research
• 8 hrs of pure individual creation
• Guided sensory warm-up
• Digital resources
• Professional photo session and process documentation
All movement styles and mobilities are encouraged!
Details:
Monday, Mar. 31, 12:00 – 2:30pm
Sunday, April 06, 12:00 – 2:30pm
Monday, April 14, 12:00 – 2:30pm
Monday, April 21, 12:00 – 2:30pm
Monday, April 28, 12:00 – 2:30pm
Price:
Single Session — $34
5-session Bundle (save $21) — $149
4-session Bundle (save $10) — $126
Observation Seating — $9
Led by multidisciplinary artist Adam Kerbel (Cannonball, Terra Nova, NYLA-FreshTracks).

J&F Dance Classes
2025-03-14 18:00 - 20:00 | CA
Hola comunidad! We are very excited to be offering classes on Friday, March 14th, 2025, from 6 pm to 8 pm.
This is an opportunity to share a safe and joyful space as a community. They will be held at studio 3, at Epicenter Arts + Entertainment in Torrance, CA.
Both classes are open level with a suggested donation of $8 per class, or $12 for both. However, no one will be turned away and you are more than welcome to give what you can.
There are a few spaces in the parking lot behind the studio building and street parking available at Grammercy Ave. or down Craverns Ave.
Please fill out our RSVP form, link in our bios, to sign up for class.
We are so excited to see you there, looking forward to moving together!
Instagrams: @jacquelineescamillaa & @fabian_zuniga_

Benita Bike's DanceArt Performs in FREE show at LA Mission College
2025-03-12 14:00 - 15:30 | Los Angeles Mission College AMP Theater, 13356 Eldridge Ave., Los Angeles (Sylmar), CA, 91342, United States
Los Angeles Mission College’s AMP Theatre hosts Benita Bike’s DanceArt in a FREE interactive dance program on Wednesday, March 12, 2:00 pm. The Theatre is located at 13356 Eldridge Ave., Sylmar. Join members of the community, students and faculty for this unique dance event, where you’ll enjoy beautiful dancing and learn more about dance. For program information, call 818-470-5734 or see www.danceart.org.
Viewers will be engaged and inspired by this program of dance performance and discussion about the art of dance. The DanceArt Company is as skilled at introducing concert dance to those new to dance, but we also provide an enriching the experience to those who are long-time dance viewers.
The March 12th performance features excerpts from new dance “From Where I Sit,” which delves into several characters’ states of mind; “Griot Songs,” exploring three stages of womanhood; and “For Rose,” the story of loss and love after a mother’s death.

Laurie Sefton Creates at LA Dance Project
2025-02-22 20:00 - 21:45, 2025-02-21 20:00 - 21:45, 2025-02-20 20:00 - 21:45 | LA Dance Project, 2245 East Washington Blvd., LOS ANGELES, CA, 90021, United States
Laurie Sefton Creates
Laurie Sefton, an award-winning choreographer, director, and creative visionary, is a Los Angeles native and the granddaughter of a Cuban immigrant. After her acclaimed work as Choreographer and Assistant Director for Onward (featuring Isabella Rossellini and Andy Bright), Laurie returns to present the world premiere of her latest untitled creation.
This new work explores the unmoored state of society, grappling with the psychological aftershocks of the global pandemic. Connected yet divided, we strive toward individual paths, confronting the paradox of singularity amidst the bonds of community and relationships.
The evening also features repertory works by Sefton, including More Please (2014) and the critically acclaimed The Mythology of Self, which incorporates a live photographer and a visual artist who transform perceptions of the performers in real time. Much of the program is set to original compositions by Erika Poh, Bryan Curt Kostors, Sasha Matson, and Victoria Vasta.
For more information, visit www.laurieseftoncreates.com

Release CTRL+Shift w. SAMMAY
2025-02-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Pieter Performance Space, 2109 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, United States
How do we attune to the necessary movements of this paradigm-shifting time? Where does our grief live and how can radical joy be an asset to our well-being? This workshop for all bodies will offer possibilities for release, re-membering, and reconfiguration for the individual and the collective – shifting towards our innate knowing through rooted movement, somatic exercises, improvisation, and embodied relationality.
Release CTRL+Shift: Portals of Possibilities
Friday, February 21, 2025
6:30-8:30pm
Pieter Performance Space
2701 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90031
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/sp022125

Countertechnique Community Class
2025-02-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
Join me in celebrating my birthday with a $5 community class!
This will be an open level Countertechnique class where we move, groove, and fly through space.
Register in advance: Venmo $5 to @ArielTheScott
Registration page: https://arielperforms.com/feb18
Countertechnique Community Class
Tuesday February 18th
6:30-8PM
Stomping Ground LA
about countertechnique:
Countertechnique® provides tools for body and mind to deal with the demanding dance practice of the 21st century. The Countertechnique® class enables dancers to move bigger, more fluidly and more spatially, while becoming stronger and more flexible. Dancers are encouraged to be pro-active in discovering connections and solutions, to be less concerned with judging themselves and to work in a healthy way with regard to body and mind.

Blue13 Dance Company Seeking Professional Dancers
2025-02-09 13:00 - 15:30 | CA
Come dance with a world class company committed to Access and Equity led by Artistic Director, Achinta S. McDaniel. Blue13 Dance Company seeks strong, technically versatile, and expressive dancers with incredible stage presence. Dancers of the Global Majority and those who identify as LGBTQ+ are strongly encouraged to audition. Contracts for tour dates, upcoming stage and film projects and local events including March at the LA LGBT Center. Competitive pay for rehearsals and engagements.

Benita Bike's DanceArt at Discovery Cube Los Angeles
2025-01-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-01-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Discovery Cube LA, 11800 Foothill Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 91342, United States
Part of the Science of Dance weekend held at the Discovery Cube, Dance Art will be performing excerpts from our repertory as well as holding a Q & A, and teaching a few moves from our dances.
A limited amount of free tickets are available by emailing benita@danceart.org with your name and number of guest in your party. General admission tickets can be purchased at the Discovery Cube website.

Brockus Project Studio's Open Call for Choreographers
2025-01-23 08:00 - 2025-02-21 17:00 | CA
OPEN CALL FOR CHOREOGRAPHERS!
Chosen works will perform either FEB 22nd at 8PM or FEB 23rd at 6PM
Audience will vote each night for the top work and winner will receive 30 free studio hours at Brockus Project studio!
• submit to LAdancefestival@gmail.com:
– CV
– Description of proposed work
– 2 video link either YouTube or Vimeo
– 4 photos labeled with name and photographer

OUT THERE– Open Applications
2025-01-23 00:00 - 2025-02-14 23:59 | CA
Application Due February 14, 2025 | 11:59PM
Velocity Dance Center is proud to announce a call for OUT THERE. OUT THERE is an annual, two week dance festival that bolsters West Coast movement artists for their lineage of making work that innovates our field. This festival is for artists that have the audacity, bravado, and experimental spirit, to vision their work to new scales.
OUT THERE showcases two different weekends with two different artists each weekend– a new, thirty minute work by a Seattle Artist which is made in residence at SFD+I and the Seattle premiere of an existing thirty minute work by an artist from the West Coast Region. This structure fills the need in our community for shared, regional discourse and connection to Seattle artists and touring opportunities for artists in the greater West Coast Region.
This festival is part of Velocity’s Regionally Emerging Creative Incubator and is recommended for artists who have participated in festival style shows before and are looking to build regional audiences around their work and expand their skills on the following:
Artistic mentorship: mentorship and community support to make artistically innovative projects.
Financial resources: fees to pay yourself, your collaborators, and your project expenses.
Reciprocal Relationship building: understanding your part in the larger ecology, and how to work collaboratively to connect and sustain your career within your ecosystem of artistic collaborators, local and national presenters, funders, and audiences.
Business development: how to manage projects and undertake long-term collaborations and career planning.
As Velocity, we love to throw around the word experimentalism. But what does it mean? We are interested in experimentation as a context we provide to audiences and art makers to hold new, innovative ideas that push their form into new places. Experimentation can take place in any dance form and doesn’t have a singular look to us. If you have more questions about “experimentalism” feel free to reach out to Shane (shane@velocitydancecenter.org).

NOStalgia POP by Primera Generacion Dance Collective
2024-06-29 20:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-28 20:30 - 21:30 | REDCAT, 631 W 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
With eclectic, multilingual, Latinx aesthetics, Los Angeles and Riverside-based Primera Generación Dance Collective exposes “el desmadre” (the messiness) that is their first-generation Mexican American experience. Rooted in popular Latine music, movement, and moments, their newest evening-length multimedia dance work, NOStalgia POP, pays homage and cheeky critique to the recuerdos romanticos that link Latine bodies together. A collage of ‘80s pop en Español, the “Latin Explosion” of the ‘90s, and millennial Mexican core weave together with media depictions of gente Latina. Four captivating dancers tell the story of how messy, fruitful, joyful, and painful the development of an ever-growing Latin Pop culture memory has been and the ways in which mainstream media shapes and is (re)shaped by Latine nostalgia.

Little Women Ballet: Spring Immersive Experience
2024-05-19 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-05-19 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-05-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-05-18 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-05-17 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-05-12 18:30 - 20:30, 2024-05-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-05-11 18:30 - 20:30 and 2 more dates | Heritage Square Museum, 3800 Homer St, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, United States
Adventure into this classical tale by Louisa May Alcott for a Mother’s Day Immersive Experience! Join Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy inside the beautiful Victorian houses of Los Angeles as they tell their story of growing up, love, loss, and family. Meet all the characters up close, go on an immersive walking tour, enjoy desserts and refreshments, and join the cast for Victorian dancing at the end of the evening. This will be an experience you won’t want to miss!
What to Expect:
(1) 1.5 hr immersive dance tour of Heritage Square Museum following the story of Little Women.*
(2) Complementary spring goodie bag with items to be used throughout the evening.
(3) Victorian Folk dancing with the cast of Little Women.
(3) Final dance presentation by Little Women cast in the Lincoln Ave Church.
(4) Complementary spring beverage provided by FLOAT Coffee Shop.
(5) Complementary photos with the cast at the end of the evening.
(5) Access to the Heritage Square gift shop.
*This portion of the production includes walking and going upstairs into different Victorian houses at the Heritage Square site and may be difficult for some audience members.
