Dance Place matches professional teaching artists and performing companies to DC area schools and community organizations through residencies and performances in African dance, step, ballet, hip hop, creative movement, jazz, tumbling and modern dance.
Performances
Carla & Company
Known for its high energy performances and dedication to bringing the arts to people of all ages and cultural backgrounds, Carla & Company is a troupe of professional dancers that perform contemporary modern dance focusing on uplifting social and humanitarian themes. Audience members are engaged through participatory activities and conversation.
Fee: $650 for one performance and $900 for two consecutive performances. For booking information call Valerie Branch at 202-269-1600.
Coyaba Dance Theater
Coyaba's dancers and drummers "stir the soul and get hearts pumping" (The Washington Post), through both traditional and contemporary forms of West African dance and music. The professional dance company has a mission to present dance, music and other educational programs focusing on the diverse ethnic groups of West Africa.
Fee: $650 for one performance and $900 for two consecutive performances. For booking information call 202-269-1600.
Dance Place Step Team
A thirty-minute performance by a professional youth group, featuring the rhythmic, synchronized body language of Step. The Dance Place Step team is comprised of youth ages 6 and up. The movement is precise, polyrhythmic, highly stylized and energetic. For audiences of all ages. Performance includes audience participation.
Fee: $300. For booking information call Donna Kearney at
202-269-1600.
Classes/Residencies
Our trained teachers bring their expertise to your school or community center to teach dance classes in African dance, step, ballet, hip hop, creative movement, jazz and modern dance.
Fees:
1-hour workshop: $75 (African dance with drummers $150)
Continuous Classes: $65/class
Teaching residencies have been held at the following schools and community-based organizations throughout the greater metropolitan area such as:
Bennet Babies
Browne Jr. High School
Center City Public Charter School
Brightwood Campus Center City Public Charter School
Shaw Campus Center City Public Charter School
Trinidad Campus Center City Public Charter School
Capitol Hill Campus Children's National Medical Center
DC Preparatory Public Charter School: Lower Campus
DC Preparatory Public Charter School: Upper Campus
Ferebee Hope Public Charter School
Girl Scouts of the National Region
Hope Community Public Charter School
John Eaton Elementary School
Kenilworth Elementary School
Luke C. Moore Academy
Maya Angelou Public Charter School: Evans campus
Maya Angelou Public Charter School: Shaw campus
Options Public Charter School
Oyster Adams Bilingual @ Adams
SAIL Public Charter School
Sankofa Home School Cooperative
St. Coletta of Greater Washington
Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School
Thurgood Marshall Elementary School
Tree of Life Public Charter School
Village Academy
WEDJ (William E. Door Jr. School of the Performing Arts) Public Charter School
For scheduling call: Shannon Quinn at 202-269-1600 ext. 17