Jump back into the New Year with Dance Place as we announce our Winter programming. You can choose to:
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dance your way into 2023 with our adult and kids classes,
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sign up for our Creative Arts Programs,
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audition for our pre-professional Dance Place Youth Performing Company,
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and make your way to our Brookland campus to engage with artists through innovative performances and community led conversations and sharings.
Whatever you decide, be sure to mark your calendars with these upcoming Dance Place Presentation and Education Programs. This is only the beginning!
Dance Place strives to ensure a safe and healthy environment for its staff, audience, and community members. Click here for our current COVID-19 policies.
Energizers Creative Arts After School Program
Beginning January 3, 2023
Email anastasiaj@danceplace.org to learn more or to enroll
The Energizers Creative Arts After School Program is an art influenced curriculum based program for youth ages 7-12. The program helps children and preteens grow, learn, have fun, build healthy life-styles, and make new friends.
Energizers Creative Arts Teen Leadership Program
Beginning January 9, 2023
Email dacheg@danceplace.org to learn more
The Energizers Creative Arts Teen Leadership Program is a holistic art-based career readiness program for teens ages 13 to 19. The program offers a curriculum that utilizes classes, life skills, artistic expression, and hands-on job training in leadership, administration, theater craft and arts education.
Dance Place’s Youth Performing Company Auditions
Monday January 23rd from 6:30-8pm
The Dance Place Youth Performing Company is Dance Place’s resident pre-professional youth dance company for ages 13-19. The company has a multi style focus including Hip Hop, Contemporary, and the African Diaspora.
Rehearsals are on Mondays from 6:30-8pm, starting January 30, 2023. Participants must also take at least one Dance Place youth or adult class during the week. Paid performances will be announced throughout the season.
For questions and to pre-register, contact Youth Performing Company Artistic Director, Dache Green, dacheg@danceplace.org or call 202-269-1600.
Sign up using this link.
Adult & Kids Classes
Beginning January 9, 2023
Dance Place’s Kids on the Move program provides dance studio education to students in the DMV area. Classes are accessible, inclusive and designed to provide the foundation of dance education for ages toddlers to teens.
Adult Classes will start January 9th, 2023.Move with us this Winter/Spring season! Be sure to check out our Rotation Class series, which offers a unique experience for all movers.
Haus of Bambi: An Intimate Night with Bambi and Molasses
January 27-28, 2023 at 7pm
Indoor Ticketed Performance
Dance Place presents Artist in Residence (AIR) Robert Woofter in haus of bambi’s An Intimate Night with Bambi and Molasses. This cabaret extravangza explores queer intimacy and the stories that shape us.
Gilded Lily Burlesque: Return to Glamour
February 10, 2023 at 8pm
Indoor Ticketed Performance
The sparkle of a rhinestone in the spotlight. The hypnotic shimmy of fringe across the hips. The caress of a silk stocking along the leg. This year’s Return to Glamour is a celebration of returns: the return of live burlesque, the return of glitz and glamour, and the return of Gilded Lily to DC!
February 11, 2023
Panel at 7pm, Doors open at 8, 8:30pm performance
Indoor Panel Discussion + Ticketed Performance
Last Night the DJ Saved My Life: Who Heals the Healers? Panel Discussion
The role of “caretaker” in the queer community has often been held by Drag Artists, DJs’, Club/Bar owners, and a myriad of other protectors of queer magic. These spaces and people serve as conduits of the community by affirming that solely standing in one’s truth can be a pathway to joy and healing. But who protects these protectors?
In continued support of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, The Clarice Smith Performing Art Center’s BlackLight Summit and Dance Place have partnered to present an exciting new drag show produced by haus of bambi, afterG. afterGLOW closes out the three-day 2023 BlackLight Summit with a glitter-filled, wig-pulling, lip-syncing, drag celebration.
Alan M. Kriegsman (AMK) Creative Residency: Léonardo Sandoval
February 13-18, 2022
During this residency, choreographer/ dancer Léonardo Sandoval and composer/ instrumentalist Gregory Richardson will collaborate to initiate the creation of seed material for a new evening-length piece of choreographed and improvised tap and Afro-Brazilian dance, house, body percussion, and live music for 7 dancers and 4-piece band.
To learn more or get involved, email rebeccag@danceplace.org.
March 18, 2023 at 7pm
March 19, 2023 at 4pm
Indoor Ticketed Performance
TEMPLE shines the spotlight on the fraying of public life and the growing reality that people participate in institutions less and less. Through the languages of Indian Dance and Hip Hop culture, Chitra Subramanian explores the experiences and stories of her South Asian immigrant journey through the lens of the major institutions that were powerful anchors in her life. From the Hindu Temple in Pittsburgh to the temple of the DC Club, Chitra showcases the limitless ways in which Hip Hop & dance continue to inspire and transform.
Questions? Email boxofficemanager@danceplace.org.
Thank you to our 2022-2023 Supporters!
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, The Arts Forward Fund, The Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Share Fund, The Shubert Foundation, SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, TRJ Bridges (for providing ASL Interpreting Services and Accessibility Consulting), Congressional Sports for Charity, Coleman Family Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Inc., The Morgan Fund at Seattle Foundation, Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation, Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, The Mars Foundation
Header photo by Jay Williams, Image Description: The performer leans forward in an arabesque position with one arm extended out and the other pulled in close to the torso, their hand in a fist. Their mouth is open and their eyes are wide.