FORRÓ IN LA W/ TRIO MIRIM
2025-08-23 20:00 - 2025-08-24 00:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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, 2025-10-11 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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Blen Blen LA
2025-09-13 20:00 - 2025-09-14 03:00, 2025-10-11 20:00 - 2025-10-12 03:00 | CA
Every 2nd Saturday Social!
Dance should be for everyone!

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.

Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca: Searching For Goya
2025-10-04 20:00 - 21:30 | The Carpenter Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach, CA, 90815, United States
“Internationally recognized as one of Spain’s most respected troupes, this is Flamenco in its pure essence.” —Boston Globe
Inspired by the drawings and paintings of Francisco de Goya, Noche Flamenca’s new work takes us on a journey through the Spanish artist’s graphic imagination and his response to the political turmoil and injustices of his time. Choreographed by Artistic Director Martín Santangelo and Bessie Award-winning Principal Dancer Soledad Barrio, Searching for Goya is flamenco at its most transformative. This masterful ensemble of dancers, singers, and musicians fuse theatricality with raw emotion, pushing flamenco’s boundaries in a performance as striking as Goya’s art.

FREE Somatic Movement Workshop: Body Memory Method
2025-10-10 10:00 - 12:00 | The Effie House
Join The Sunflower Project for a FREE Body Memory Method workshop, facilitated by founder and choreographer Leah Zeiger. This event kicks off the Demand To Be Heard Festival — a weekend of gender-based survivor focussed arts workshops, gatherings, and performances.
Friday October 10th, 10am-12pm
3714 Effie Street, LA CA 90014
Sign up: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops
About the Body Memory Method: A somatic movement workshop that involves internal reflection, gentle guided movement, and conversations about the body’s ability to store memory and share knowledge. While this method was developed for survivors of sexual and relationship trauma, it is open to anyone with a body. Absolutely no experience in anything, other than being a human, required. Learn more: https://www.towardsthesun.org/body-memory-method
About The Sunflower Project: A Los Angeles based nonprofit that educates young people about healthy and abusive relationships and empowers survivors to share their story through artmaking. Learn more: http://www.towardsthesun.org/
About the Festival: Participate in three movement, writing, and theater workshops, watch the award winning documentary “Untold” with a special panel discussion, and be in the audience to witness our inaugural cohort of resident artists perform live music, dance, and theater that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Events happen throughout Los Angeles October 10th-12th, and tickets are on sale now! Explore the festival and grab your tickets here: https://www.towardsthesun.org/festival
Sign up for the workshop: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops

Jazz Rock Workshop with Robert Modestine
2025-10-11 13:00 - 14:30 | The Spot, 11119 Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood, CA, 91601, United States
✨ For the first time in LA, we welcome Robert Modestine, one of the original Jazz Rock pioneers of France ✨
From the Paris clubs of the 80s to inspiring generations of dancers worldwide, his style carries the roots, history, and soul of the culture.
🔥 Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn directly from an OG and experience Jazz Rock in its purest form 🔥

Afro Jazz/Amapiano Workshop with Darren & Willis
2025-10-11 14:30 - 16:00 | The Spot, 11119 Burbank Blvd, North Hollywood, CA, 91601, United States
✨ Afro Jazz meets Amapiano in LA ✨
All the way from France, Darren & Willis, internationally renowned dancers, choreographers, and creators, are bringing their unique vibes and energy for a workshop you don’t want to miss!
Known for blending Afro Jazz precision with the soulful grooves of Amapiano, they’ve inspired dancers across Europe and beyond.
🔥 Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn from two of the youngest most talented dancers in the world 🔥

Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final Los Angeles
2025-10-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Intuit Dome, 3930 West Century Blvd, Inglewood, CA, 90303, United States
For the first time ever, Los Angeles will host the Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final on October 11, 2025!
After World Finals in cities across the globe, the City of Angels will welcome the best international street dancers to perform in this unique one-on-one mixed-style dance battle, where you – the audience – decide who takes home the coveted title.
Buy your tickets now now for the most electrifying street dance event of the year or watch the livestream on Red Bull TV on October 11th at 9PM PDT.
Subscribe to Red Bull Dance on YouTube and follow @redbulldance on Instagram & TikTok for more Red Bull Dance Your Style content.

How it works
Red Bull Dance Your Style – where you decide who wins.

What is it?
1v1 street dance freestyle bracket competition.

The twist?
Competitors have NO idea what song will play for their round(s). It’s all surprise tracks!

What’s in it for me?
In this competition, the CROWD is the judge, YOU get to decide who wins it all.

Bodies in Play / Work in Process
2025-10-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Pieter Performance Space, 2109 N Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90031, United States
SAVE THE DATE: October 11, 7:30 @pieterperformancespace
Bodies in Play / Work in Process (BiP / WiP) is our choreographic research series dedicated to identifying and practicing choreographic methods rooted in shared ownership, consent, and play.
BiP/WiP II featuring work by @celinesauquillodavis @tiffanysweat @dzzphases @darby_epperson @cristinamariaflorez_ @krumpmasterkrump @andrew.pearson.la @saydjane @iamrachelwhiting

Brazilian Partner dance, Forró dance workshop and party
2025-10-11 19:30 - 2025-10-12 00:30 | Tropico De Nopal Gallery Art-Space, 1665 Beverly Blvd, Los angeles, CA, 90026, United States
🎶 Forró Night @ Trópico de Nopal 🌴
Saturday, October 11 | Los Angeles
Join us for a beautiful evening of music, dance, and community at the most charming patio in LA – @tropicodenopal! 💃🏽🕺🏽
🎧 Music by:
✨@yukicito – spinning his signature remixes & Forró favorites
✨ reyes– special vinyl set to keep you dancing all night
🕢 7:30 PM Special Forró Workshop with RafaWilker
🎉 8:30 PM – Party starts!
Cover:
$20 – Workshop + Party
$15 – Party only (after 8:30 PM)
📍 Trópico de Nopal
1665 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
Let’s dance under the stars and celebrate the rhythm of Brazil! 🇧🇷✨
Free parking next to the venue.
#brasil #forró #braziliandance #brazilianmusic #la #latindance #dtla

Live Kathak Performance
2025-10-11 20:00 - 21:00 | Victory Theater, Burbank, United States
Some of the best solo artists will be performing live at Victory Theater in Burbank 8 PM, Oct 11, 2025. Tickets at LAWTF.ORG

Sparks: Theater Tools for Multidisciplinary Artists
2025-10-12 10:30 - 12:00 | ARC Pasadena, 1158 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA, 91106, United States
Join The Sunflower Project for a ‘Sparks: Theater Tools for Multidisciplinary Artists’ workshop, facilitated by director, dramaturg, and creative producer Diana Wyenn. This event is part of the Demand To Be Heard Festival — a weekend of gender-based survivor focussed arts workshops, gatherings, and performances.
Sunday October 12th, 10:30am-12:00pm
A Room to Create (ARC) Studios, Pasadena CA
Sign up: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops
About the Workshop: Director, dramaturg, and creative producer Diana Wyenn will share generative theater techniques that artists across disciplines can use to uncover new insights, connections, and relationships to their work, ideas, and bodies. Through voice, gesture, and spontaneous play, participants will explore how the body holds ideas and memories—revealing creative impulses and offering practical tools they can apply to brainstorming, devising, or refining their work. Open to all; no prior experience required.
About The Sunflower Project: A Los Angeles based nonprofit that educates young people about healthy and abusive relationships and empowers survivors to share their story through artmaking. Learn more: http://www.towardsthesun.org/
About the Festival: Participate in three movement, writing, and theater workshops, watch the award winning documentary “Untold” with a special panel discussion, and be in the audience to witness our inaugural cohort of resident artists perform live music, dance, and theater that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Events happen throughout Los Angeles October 10th-12th, and tickets are on sale now! Explore the festival and grab your tickets here. Learn more: https://www.towardsthesun.org/festival
Sign up for the workshop: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/art-workshops
Single workshop cost: $20
Two workshop pass: $35
Workshop donations are tax deductible!

Survivor Artist Showcase: Demand To Be Heard!
2025-10-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Wisteria Theater, 7061 Vineland Ave, North Hollywood, CA, 91605, United States
An evening of Survivor-created dance, music, and theater in Los Angeles! One night only, four world premieres!
The Sunflower Project has been supporting 4 artists in residence over the past 6 months in creating new performances that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Experience the profound, intimate, vulnerable, brave work these 4 artists have created in an evening of multi-disciplinary performances.
Tickets are limited, get yours before they sell out! Tickets at: https://www.towardsthesun.org/tickets/p/dtbh-festival-resident-artist-showcase
About The Sunflower Project: A Los Angeles based nonprofit that educates young people about healthy and abusive relationships and empowers survivors to share their story through artmaking. Learn more: http://www.towardsthesun.org/
About the Festival: Participate in three movement, writing, and theater workshops, watch the award winning documentary “Untold” with a special panel discussion, and be in the audience to witness our inaugural cohort of resident artists perform live music, dance, and theater that explore and celebrate their survivorship. Events happen throughout Los Angeles October 10th-12th, and tickets are on sale now! Explore the festival and grab your tickets here: https://www.towardsthesun.org/festival
