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Coyaba Dance Theater at DanceAfrica, DC 2012. Photo © Enoch Chan
Online ticket sales close 4 hours before performance time. Remaining tickets can be purchased at the Box Office starting 1 hour before performance time. May 28 – June 2* Download the full festival schedule! The 26th annual festival celebrating the dance and music of the African Diaspora with special guests Umkhathi Theatre Works from Zimbabwe. Featuring some of the best African dance companies in the DC metropolitan area, this festival is guaranteed to inspire, invigorate, educate and entertain. Umkhathi Theatre Works is a multi-disciplinary performing arts ensemble based in the high-density suburb of Njube in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The ensemble has twenty full-time...
DANCE PLACE MOVES OUT! September 2013-February 2014 After 27 years of being the “hub of dance” for Brookland, Dance Place is ready for an expansion and a major renovation. While under construction from August 2013-February 2014, we will present performances in a variety of theaters and host daily classes at two locations on 8th St NE. We’re creating a bright future with the Moving Forward Capital Campaign, which includes: $4,000,000 for the renovation of our facility, including expanded and redesigned lobby and office spaces, a technically enhanced theater with new comfy theater chairs, expanded dressing rooms, and a new third studio...
Dance Place welcomes artists from all over the world to share their creative visions with our audiences and students. Through performances, master classes and workshops, artists from countries as close as Cuba and as far away as Indonesia have found a home away from home in the Dance Place Theater. Carla Perlo, Founding Director of Dance Place, believes strongly in the dialogue created by engaging with artists of all cultures. To quote Carla, “Dance Place’s interest in international exchange is fueled by my personal belief that we are more united by our commonalities than our differences. Prejudice exists because of...
Polinger Family Foundation makes a $400,000 gift to Dance Place! We are thrilled to announce a gift from the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation of $400,000 to support both the Dance Place Moving Forward Capital Campaign and general operations of our organization. In honor of their generous support, artists and audiences will enter the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation Lobby when we open our renovated facility in March 2014. “Our support is an endorsement of the fine work that Carla and Dance Place provide for the dance community as well as for the neighborhood.” – Lorre Polinger, Trustee The Polinger...
Artland Brookland Temporium Created and presented by Dance Place June 1 – August 26, 2012 13 weeks of free arts and cultural offerings 1,500+ visitors The Artland/Brookland project took dance and the arts out of our traditional theater and into an abandoned restaurant turned Arts Club “DP3”; transformed a former real estate office into an intimate exhibition space, the “12th Street Gallery;” and spiced up Brookland residents’ commutes with outside exhibitions and classes near the Brookland/CUA metro. The Temporiums featured arts exhibitions, poetry readings, dance performances, music concerts, art workshops, film screenings and community discussions Fridays through Sundays. Concentrated around six different themes...
VTDANCE is looking for 50 dancers of all ages, styles and experience to be a part of a FlashMOB Music Video to encourage bipartisan solutions in our government. Pay: $65 Stipend Performance/Rehearsals All performers must be available on May 8th for two hours (mid-day) in downtown DC and attend this rehearsal:Sunday, May 5 7:00pm – 9:00pm Rehearsal at Dance Exchange: 7117 Maple Ave Takoma Park, MD 20912 Dancers will learn approximately 3 minutes of choreography and have a chance during the FlashMOB to show off their individual talents! Register to participate with Meghan by emailing FlashMOBMay8@gmail.com. Please include your full name,...
Stop by Dance Place to view and purchase art by Rajan Sedalia. He recently taught visual art and graffiti to local teens through Dance Place’s Youth Program. Blending the boundaries of art, industrial design and comics, Rajan was recognized by Newsweek Who’s Next Readers’ Choice. www.artjar.com highlights a collection of projects featured during a PBS interview.
We’ve reserved a seat for you in the Dance Place theater! Now is the time to become an essential part of Dance Place, Washington, DC’s legendary home for dance, creative youth education and community engagement! We invite you to buy a seat in our soon to be renovated theater. Your name, or the name of someone you’d like to honor, will be prominently displayed on one of our comfy new chairs. An evening at Dance Place is always an adventure as artists from all over the world share their creative vision with us. Why not become a part of that creative vision with...
Dear Dance Place Family, We’re pleased to announce that we’ve raised just over half of our $5 million goal of the Moving Forward Campaign and are in the final planning stages to begin construction this August! As many of you know, Dance Place has launched a major initiative to renovate our facility and expand our programs to create a bright future for artists, students and audiences. Plans for Dance Place’s main space will include an improved lobby, spacious dressing rooms, comfortable seating and more. Our enhanced programs will include new free outdoor performances, commissions of new choreography and an increase...
January 25, 2013 In Sarah Kaufman’s Spring Arts Preview for Dance in The Washington Post, Dance Place receives numerous mentions for upcoming performances of Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion, Idan Cohen Dance Company, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and Karen Sherman. “We’ll also get two chances to see the work of Kyle Abraham, who made a stunning local debut last year. The Ailey troupe will perform the Washington premiere of Abraham’s jazz-inspired ‘Another Night,’ while Abraham.in.Motion, as the choreographer’s small, excellent group is named, makes a separate appearance at Dance Place in April with his ‘Pavement,’ which explores urban culture.“ “More Israeli work will...
2011-2012 Please enjoy reading about Dance Place’s accomplishments and our robust, supportive programming for the 2011-2012 Season in the enclosed Annual Report. The presentation of artists and model education programs for ALL ages is more important than ever in this climate of economic distress. Hear what artists, families and children have to say about Dance Place’s role. 2010-2011 We’re pleased to share our FY11 Annual Report with you. Our thirtieth anniversary was a landmark celebration of building community through performances, commissions, educational programs and neighborhood development. We continue to make a significant impact on the field of dance locally and...
Dance Place is in search of a brand design agency to undertake a comprehensive project that will rebrand our organization in conjunction with a re-opening of our main building after renovations in March 2014. The firm selected will be charged with completing the work outlined in the following pages by late February 2014. Dance Place’s new brand will empower the organization to effectively communicate its mission to many diverse audiences through multiple channels. The firm chosen to execute this project will work closely with a small taskforce of experienced senior staff and volunteer leaders to translate the organization’s brand strategy...
Jim Abdo talks about the Monroe St Market development in Brookland and more in this New York Times article published on January 10, 2013: “On the final spot on our tour, Abdo took me to his newest, biggest project. We drove north on North Capitol Street, as if we were driving out of the District, to a shabby and decidedly unhip neighborhood called Brookland. It is a mostly older, mostly lower-middle-class neighborhood, underserved by grocery stores and restaurants and overlooked by many of the young professionals farther south in Bloomingdale or Shaw or Capitol Hill. Abdo was undeterred. He...
Dance Place’s Energizers Junior Staff program runs year-round, offering teenagers life skills workshops, arts electives and personalized job training three days a week. After school, on the weekends and during the summer, the Junior Staff are integrated within Dance Place’s operations, gaining self-confidence, vital professional experience and developing their own creative voice. In 2012, we are proud to have mentored 60 teenagers through this program, due to the major support of the DC Children and Youth Investment Corporation, Summit Fund and Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation. Check out this video recap of the 2012 Junior Staff participants:
Dance Place, a long-time cultural resident of the Brookland neighborhood, has submitted an application for a Second Stage Planned Unit Development (PUD) to construct an addition to its existing facility at 3225 8th Street, NE. The addition, which would be more modest in scale than the completely new building approved by the Commission in the first stage PUD, would not be inconsistent with the goals of the first stage PUD approval, the Comprehensive Plan, or the Zoning Regulations. The Office of Planning (OP), therefore, recommends that the application be set down for public hearing. Dance Place’s hearing is scheduled January...
