Empowered Voices - A Dance, Drum & Storytelling Summer Intensive with Tropicaleiza Dance + Drum Co
2025-08-03 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Empowered Voices
3 day
Dance, Drum, + Storytelling Intensive
AUGUST 1-3, 2025
This is an application-based intensive. Due to the immersive and personalized nature of this experience, spaces are limited. Early application is encouraged to secure your spot.
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EXPERIENCE the signature energy, uplifting spirit, and high-intensity magic of Tropicaleiza. In this 3-day soul-stirring intensive you can expect to ignite and awaken your personal rhythm and transform it into powerful unique energetic expression, through these essential action packed elements:
schedule below!
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BARRE BLAZE Strength-building, fire-starting warm-up designed to activate your power and precision.
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JSMETHOD SEQUENCES & FLOORWORK: Grounded, voluminous, and expressive phrases building fluidity, technique, and storytelling vocabulary.
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SOARING ACROSS THE FLOOR: Dynamic, musical, and expressive movement drills focused on intention and impact. Live drumming accompaniment)
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DRUMMING & PERCUSSIVE SESSIONS: Powerful, rhythm-based training to deepen the connection between dance, sound, and story. Fall in love with making noise.
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REAL LIFE STORYTELLING PRACTICE: : Collaborative, expressive storytelling that transforms personal experience into performance.
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Guided by Julie Simon + Tropicaleiza, this immersive experience will unleash your voice, amplify your rhythm, and transform your movement into a force of empowerment. This isn’t just a workshop—it’s an experience.
​Leave inspired, connected, and transformed.
DANCE DRUM EMPOWER
August 1-3, 2025
Applications Open : April 4
Application Deadline : May 15
Early Bird Deadline : June 1 $175
Regular Pricing (After June 1) : $200
At the Door (If Space Allows): $250

Blen Blen LA
2025-08-09 20:00 - 2025-08-10 03:00, 2025-09-13 20:00 - 2025-09-14 03:00 | CA
Every 2nd Saturday Social!
Dance should be for everyone!

Level Up: Build Your Artist Toolkit - Workshop + Q&A with Brian Golden
2025-08-16 10:00 - 12:00 | Pieter Performance Space, 2109 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, United States
🚨 FREE WORKSHOP ALERT 🚨
I’ll be leading a Level Up Workshop at Pieter Performance Space on Saturday, August 16 from 10am–12pm.
This is a free lecture/conversation for artists who want to take their practice to the next level. We’ll cover:
Applying to grants and residencies (including where to find them).
Writing strong bios, artist statements, and proposals.
Networking with institutions to create your own opportunities and more.
📍 Pieter Performance Space
Saturday, August 16
10:00am–12:00pm
Free to attend
Bring your questions and curiosity. Let’s learn the game together.

Contact Improv Jam & Performance
2025-08-16 16:30 - 19:30 | Pieter Performance Space, 2109 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, United States
Friday August 16th
4:30-7:30 pm
Pieter Performance Space 2791 N Broadway, Los Angeles , CA 90031
RSVP & pay 🔗 in bio
$15-30 | NOTAFLOF
All proceeds go to supporting artists.
open level, beginner friendly contact improv jam & performance by dancers in poster.
Warm up 4:30-5:15
Jam 5:20-7:10 Performance 7:15pm
Public Parking in back of building
At Pieter Performance Space

Desolation
2025-08-16 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-16 20:30 - 22:00, 2025-08-17 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-08-17 20:30 - 22:00 | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
We’re excited to share our upcoming live show, Desolation: an immersive exploration of human flaws and healing through the lens of commercial ballet. This powerful narrative is brought to life through collaborative choreography, a live on-stage DJ, and dynamic movement that touches on themes of vanity, lust, envy, anger, and transformation. Desolation invites audiences to witness the raw journey of being human.

Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet: Islands in the Sea
2025-08-16 19:00 - 21:00 | The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
The world premiere of Raiford Rogers’ Islands in the Sea, set to the music of Arvo Pärt and inspired by the William James quote, “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” The work explores the unseen forces that unite us.
The ballet features choreography set to several of Pärt’s most evocative compositions — including Fratres, Passacaglia, Pari Intervallo, Vater Unser, Spiegel im Spiegel, and Für Alina.
Glassworks, set to Philip Glass’ iconic composition of the same name, and Restless, set to music by Zbyněk Matějů, join with the company’s signature rhythmic elegance to complete the program.
Recorded specifically for this performance, the score features pianist Hui Wu, violinist Stephanie Yu, and cellist Elizabeth Wright. Large-scale projections by acclaimed visual artist Mike Nava create a rich, multi-sensory environment in which dance, music, and art converge.

BALLET4LYFE with Adie San Diego
2025-08-19 10:00 - 11:30 | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
Int/Adv Ballet classes with Adie San Diego at Stomping Ground LA
A ballet class 4 you. An intermediate/advanced class for the practitioners, the enthusiasts, the nostalgic. Classic barre + center work with room to play, push limits, and embrace your perfectly imperfect arabesque.
Fill the form to sign up for class. $10 per class / $25 3-Class Pack
Venmo or Zelle accepted

Indigo Dance Company Presents HUSK
2025-08-23 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-08-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
HUSK – the final chapter in the HOME universe.
Husk is a 44-minute evening length work premiering August 23rd (Matinee and evening Performances) at Stomping Ground LA in Los Angeles, CA presented by Indigo Dance Company. This work is being choreographed by Dani Burd, Rik Soto, and Madi Thomas – in collaboration with our Season 2 company artists.
The Pre-show will feature 2 different pieces by guest choreographers Aisha Reddick and Ashley Tomaszewski (THREE POINT PROJECT)
There will be a brief stage/set changeover.
HUSK is the culmination of a three-year journey through grief, memory, and transformation. A homesick heart fractures time and transcends reality in this emotional recollection. An emotional recollection, where loss fractures time and transcends reality. Sunder. Oblivion. Grace.
This final chapter asks… What remains when everything falls away? When you’re at the edge of the earth…what’s left. How do we find peace at the end..with the end. How do we begin again.
And then… light. Not because it was earned or things subsided.. but because grace arrives anyway. Forgiveness without reason, beauty without logic. It’s presence, humility, peace.
Seven incredible dancers will support answering these questions, bringing their own stories and truths to this collective work of art.

FORRÓ IN LA W/ TRIO MIRIM
2025-08-23 20:00 - 2025-08-24 00:00 | Tropico De Nopal Gallery Art-Space, 1665 Beverly Blvd, Los angeles, CA, 90026, United States
🌙✨ The Hottest Night of Forró in LA – Saturday, August 23 ✨🌙
Get ready for an unforgettable evening under the stars at Tropico de Nopal’s iconic back patio, where live Forró rhythms meet warm summer night skies. 🌴💃
Special Live Guest – Trio Mirim
Forró in LA just leveled up! We’re thrilled to introduce Trio Mirim – bringing fresh energy and authentic Northeastern Brazilian grooves to the dance floor:
• Emina Shimanuki – soulful vocals + dazzling triangle
• Rafa – soaring sanfona (accordion) melodies
• Felipe – driving zabumba beats you’ll feel in your bones
This is a rare chance to dance to live Forró in LA – don’t miss it!
DJ Sets to Keep You Moving
Our resident reyes and groove curator yukicito will spin 100% Forró vibes, from vintage classics to modern anthems, all night long.
Learn, Dance, Connect
Kick off the night with our Beginner’s Forró Class (8:00–8:30 PM). No partner, no experience needed—just bring your energy (and maybe your crush 😉).
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$25 at the door
📍 Tropico De Nopal – 1665 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
🕗 Dance Class 8:00 PM | Party Until Late
🌮 Coxinha, cold drinks, beautiful people, and pure Forró magic
Let’s dance under the moonlight and make it a night we’ll never forget. ❤️🌌
#forró #forroinLA #danceunderthemoon #triomirim #brazilianvibes #baiao #xote #losangelesnightlife #globalgrooves #tropicodenopal #liveforro #communitydance #worldmusic

Into the Weirdness: A workshop with Miguel Gutierrez
2025-08-25 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-26 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-27 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-28 12:00 - 15:00, 2025-08-29 12:00 - 15:00 | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
Into the Weirdness
a workshop with Miguel Gutierrez
In this workshop we tap into “uncanny” relationships of self to other, time, environment, and space. We find ways to identify the strangeness that is always present, but so often repressed. Dance becomes a way to uncover and express desires, excess feelings, and the multiplicity we all hold. These exercises reflect approaches I use in my work, and they also serve as practices to negotiate what it is to be in a room of individuals together.
All levels of experience welcome

August 25-29, M-F, 12pm to 3pm
Stomping Ground LA
5453 Alhambra Ave, Los Angeles 90032

$80/week or $25 drop in
Spots limited. Pre-register by writing manager@miguelgutierrez.org

LAX | Pop-Up Workshop: Flow, Power &; Partnering Visceral Movement Theory™
2025-09-05 12:30 - 17:00 | Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90032, Los Angeles, CA, 90032, United States
Rooted in visceral biomechanics and fusing athletics with post-contemporary dance and partnering, this one-time four-hour pop-up workshop plays with the rules of physics to unleash strength, adaptability, and power in movement.
Open to advanced and professional-level dancers of all genres, participants will dive into athletic phrase work and guided partnering explorations that tap the body’s action potential. By engaging joints, tendons, and fascia as dynamic levers within gravity, dancers will hone proprioception, harness momentum, and refine transitions in choreography.
Visceral Movement Theory™ (VMT) is the signature movement-partnering language of push/FOLD, developed by Artistic Director Samuel Hobbs.
Please wear clothing that covers the shoulders, hips, upper arms, and legs.
The workshop is open to all advanced and professional-levels dancers ages 18+.

Tropicaleiza Dance + Drum Co Presents : Legacy - Rooted in Story, Carried by Rhythm
2025-09-06 19:00 - 20:30 | The Box Riverside, 3635 Market St, Riverside, 92501, United States
Join us an unforgettable event celebrating the divine feminine and the rich legacy it weaves. Prepare to be swept into a world of rhythm, memory, and movement.
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Through dance, drumming, storytelling, and soul, we enter realms of memory, transformation, and joy, led by the artists of Tropicaleiza Dance + Drum Company and our radiant apprentice artists.
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This powerful evening includes:
A showing of Tropicaleiza’s newest work-in-progress
The season finale of our Apprentice Program
Our annual fundraiser supporting programs that empower women through dance, drum, + storytelling
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Expect stories that are danced, not just told. Rhythms that awaken something ancient. And a legacy that lives through you.
Leave inspired. Leave ignited.
Leave carrying the legacy forward.

Saturday Cuban Salsa Grooves with Kati Hernandez
2025-09-13 13:00 - 15:10, 2025-09-20 13:00 - 15:10, 2025-09-27 13:00 - 15:10, 2025-10-04 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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Afro-Cuban Percussion, Dance & Songs - "Guiro for Ochun" at Oricha Dance Therapy (All-levels)
2025-09-14 11:30 - 14:10 | Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4718 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90016, United States
Special Afro-Cuban dance and Afro-Cuban song & percussion workshop focusing on guiro for Ochun, oricha of the Yoruba tradition.​
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*INCLUDES:
@ 11:30 AM – 1 PM PT: Afro-Cuban dance with Kati
@ 1:10 – 2:10 PM PT: Afro-Cuban Songs & Percussion with Luca
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*In-Person Cost: $40 Full Package
$25 Single Workshop
INCLUDED in the In-Person Unlimited Package.​​​
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*Online Cost:
$20 Single Workshop
INCLUDED in the Online Unlimited Package.
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*Location: Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4718 W. Washington Blvd, L.A.

Decades of Dance in L.A.: Celebrating 20 Years of Visions and Voices and 10 Years of USC Kaufman
2025-09-18 19:00 - 21:00 | usc, Los Angeles
Celebrate 20 years of Visions and Voices and 10 years of the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance with a dazzling triple bill of companies from L.A.’s vibrant dance scene. Also celebrating two decades of exciting work, CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater and the Versa-Style Street Dance Company have performed in multiple Visions and Voices and Kaufman School events and workshops. JA Collective was founded by members of USC Kaufman’s inaugural class of 2019.
> Led by founding artistic director Ana María Alvarez since 2005, CONTRA-TIEMPO is a multilingual activist dance theater company dedicated to transforming the world through dance by building community, facilitating dialogue, and moving audiences to imagine what is possible. They will perform an excerpt from joyUS justUS, a powerful work that highlights joy as the ultimate expression of resistance.
> Started in 2018 by Jordan Johnson and Aidan Carberry when they were USC Kaufman students, JA Collective blends hip hop, theatre, and contemporary dance into a distinctive style that blurs dance and theatre, rehearsal and performance, and reality and dreams. They will perform Castling the Unknown, inspired by the events of Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky in the 1972 World Chess Championship in Reykjavik, Iceland.
> Established by Los Angeles natives and artistic directors Jackie “Miss Funk” Lopez and Leigh “Breeze-Lee” Foaad in 2005, Versa-Style Street Dance Company seeks to empower underserved and marginalized groups worldwide through the movement and culture of hip hop dance. They will perform an excerpt from Freemind Freestyle, a high–energy, improvised work that features such street dance styles as locking, popping, hip hop, and krump.

Call for submissions - Versatility Dance Festival
2025-09-19 00:00 - 2025-09-30 23:59 | 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

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.
