Press

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2023-2024 Season

2022-2023 Season

In the News

10 Experience-Based Classes You Didn’t Know You Needed | District Fray | 08.03.2023

Special Presenter Initiatives 2023-2024 Grants Announced | Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation | 07.25.2023

Many Extra Only More’: Big homegrown dance wows | DC Theater Arts | 07.10.2023

10 Virtual And IRL Things To Do Around D.C. This Week | DCist | 05.30.2023

Sean Dorsey Dance, Ellsworth Kelly, and More Best Bets for May 11–17 | Washington City Paper | 05.11.2023

chitra.MOVES: TEMPLE | The Dance Enthusiast | 03.09.2023

Chitra Subramanian Creates Community Through Dance | Washington City Paper | 02.28.2023

AfterGlow: A Glowing Review | The Tower CUA’s Independent Paper | 02.16.2023

Editor’s Pick: Bambi and Molasses at Dance Place | Metro Weekly | 01.26.2023

The BlackLight Summit Celebrates the Artistry of Dance and Drag | Metro Weekly | 01.09.2023

Embracing Intimacy with Drag Artists’ Bambi + Molasses | District Fray | 01.09.2023

2021-2022 EMBARK Season

In the News

Haus Of Bambi Debuts A New Drag-Centric Cabaret Show | MetroWeekly | 05.09.2022

12 Virtual And IRL Things To Do Around D.C. This Weekend | DCist | 03.24.2022

Tariq O’Meally is lighting the way at the Clarice’s Black Light Summit | Metro Weekly | 01.28.2022

Two men hold on in Britta Joy Peterson’s ‘And Now, Hold Me’ at Dance Place | DC Metro Theatre Arts | 01.24.2022

Dance Place’s Executive Artistic Director Bids Adieu | The Georgetowner | 12.9.2021

Seattle dance artist dani tirrell’s departure leaves strong legacy, big void | The Seattle Times | 12.2.2021

Editorial Tearsheet (pg. 16-18) | Metro Weekly | 11.10.2021

Hot Picks of the Week: Dragula returns, Strathmore’s Holiday Market, SeoulSpice, and more! | Metro Weekly | 11.5.2021

Mayor Bowser Awards $12 Million to 91 Nonprofit Organizations Serving District Youth | Mayor DC | 10.29.2021

Hot Picks of the Week: Undead drag, APO celebrates country, DC Beer Fest returns | Metro Weekly | 10.28.2021

12 Virtual and IRL Things To Do in D.C. This Weekend | DCist | 10.28.2021

Editorial Tearsheet (pg. 21) | Metro Weekly | 10.21.2021

15 Virtual And IRL Things To Do In D.C. This Weekend | DCist | 9.30.2021

National Dance Day comes to Kennedy Center’s REACH Campus | The Culpeper Star-Exponent | 9.11.2021

National Dance Day at the Kennedy Center: Everything You Need to Know | Metro Weekly | 9.10.2021

5 Best Dance in Washington, D.C. | Kev’s Best | 9.9.2021

Young Life: National Dance Day comes to Kennedy Center’s REACH Campus | The Free Lance-Star | 9.8.2021

The Kennedy Center Announces 2021 National Dance Day Celebration | Broadway World | 8.19.2021

2020-2021 FORTITUDE Season

In the News

 

11 Virtual and IRL Things to Do Around D.C. This Weekend | DCist | 7.8.2021

Biden nominates ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro to serve on National Council on the Arts | KHON2 | 6.25.2021

Biden Nominates Orange County Native To Council On The Arts | The Patch | 6.25.2021

Biden Nominees for Arts Council Include Ukulele Legend Jake Shimabukuro, Apollo Theater’s Kamilah Forbes, & Indie Record Label President | Deadline | 6.24.2021

President Biden Announces 17 Key Nominations | The White House | 6.23.2021

13 Virtual And IRL Things To Do Around D.C. This Week | DCist | 6.14.2021

Dance Place Spotlights Innovative Dance Artists in its Inaugural LGBTQ Dance Festival | Metro Weekly | 6.11.2021

10 Virtual And IRL Things To Do Around D.C. This Week | DCist | 6.1.2021

Get Out There: All About Cicadas | WAMU 88.5 | 5.20.2021

PERFORMING ARTS | Georgetowner | 5.17.2021

Creating New Futures Is Reimagining the Relationship Between Artists and Presenters | Dance Magazine | 5.4.2021

Sean Dorsey Dance Performs for You ‘AT-HOME’ April 16–18 | San Francisco Bay Times | 4.12.2021

Sylvia Soumah & Coyaba Dance Theater | WETA Arts | 4.2.2021

One Year Later: Looking Back on Last March | Dance Magazine | 3.12.2021

Spotlight: S. J. Ewing & Dancers’ “Techne” | Metro Weekly | 3.5.2021

9 Virtual and IRL Things To Do Around DC This Week | DCist | 3.1.2021

FOX 5 FIELD TRIP: Dance Place in Northeast DC | Good Day DC | 3.1.2021

Spotlight: The BlackLight Summit | Metro Weekly | 2.25.2021

Spotlight: The Best of Coyaba Dance Theater | Metro Weekly | 2.12.2021

22 Ways To Celebrate Black History Month In D.C. | DCist | 2.1.21

The best things to do — virtually and in person — while social distancing in the D.C. area | The Washington Post | 12.24.20

These Washingtonians Created A Go-Go Inspired Musical To Teach Kids About Music And The Brain | DCist | 12.14.20

Charles O. Anderson’s New Black Lives Matter–Inspired Work Is Required Viewing in 2020 | Dance Magazine | 12.2.20

Make December merry and bright with local holiday arts offerings | DC Metro Theater Arts | 12.1.20

Give It Up, D.C. 2020 Giving Guide | Washington City Paper | 11.25.20

Managing the Mid-Career: What Happens After “Emerging” | Dance Magazine | 11.17.20

Weekly Arts Round Up | The Georgetowner | 11.5.20

‘What Are You?’ Dancemaking and the Hyphenated Other | Dance/USA | 10.5.20

Unions say arts organizations are using the pandemic to cut pay. Companies facing losses say they have no choice | The Washington Post | 10.31.20

As Dance Place celebrates 40 years, its fortitude is on full display | Metro Weekly | 9.30.20

8 Things to Do This Week in DC (and Beyond) | Metro Weekly | 9.18.20

Norton Introduces 11th Annual National Dance Day Resolution Ahead of Virtual Celebration, Saturday | Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton | 9.17.20

WETA Arts: September 2020 | WETA | 9.12.20

Press Releases

Krystal Collins/new growth collective | June 2021

Gaze: A Queer research and performance gathering | June 2021

DanceAfrica, DC 2021 | June 2021

ReVision dance company | Passage | 5.21.2021-5.23.2021

CLASS: The Carla Perlo Story | A panel discussion and preview of the documentary film and live performance | 5.1.2021

FORTITUDE Summer Presentations | April 2020

Exquisite Frame performance series | 4.10.2021

S. J. Ewing & Dancers | TECHNE | 3.8.2021-3.14.2021

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s BlackLight Summit | Keep the Light On Performance Series | 3.4.2021

Coyaba Dance Theater | Coyaba Celebration | 2.20.21

FORTITUDE Winter/Spring Presentations | Jan 2021

FORTITUDE Nov/Dec Presentations | Nov 2020

Oral History Project | Nov 2020

FORTITUDE Fall Presentations | Sept 2020