Join us for a week of dance, music, and tradition during our 37th annual DanceAfrica DC festival.

Beauty Happens is an hour long work which explores a spectrum of intimacy and resilience through sight, touch, sound, and relentless physicality.

Ghost Bride features extraordinary scenic, lighting, sound, costuming and projection to depict the overpowering spell and eternal pain of unwanted destiny.

Hōmō • Dentïtes'' , inspired by the term Homo rooting from a Latin word meaning man, or human.

The inaugural Latinx/e Movement Festival in DC will bring five movement artists throughout the nation and locally to share in open to the public performances.

Photo by Justin Williams, a young student on stage under purple and pink lights poses in a lunge with one arm bent in front of her face, her hand in […]

In its second year, Dance Place will support Donald Lee's series of location-based work, Anti-Spectacular, centering on disability aesthetics. By accessing movements in inaccessible spaces, the artist transforms barriers into a powerful language of movement. Join us for a film screening, movement installation, and a community discussion with the artist.

Dance Place’s Dance & Disability Residency strives to support the growth and vision of artists who identify as disabled. This collaborative partnership aims to increase Dance Place’s capacity for accessibility practices while creating an environment of research and growth for the artists.
In its second year, Dance Place will support Donald Lee’s work Element of Danger / Donald / untitled specific-specific performance. A public film screening and site-specifc performance/movement installation will accumulate at the end of the week inviting community members to engage in dialogue with the artist about their process, research, and experience at Dance Place.

Through Dance Place’s Creative Residency Program, join Hoptown, the newest immersive and intergenerational dance work by MK Abadoo/MKArts. Hoptown is inspired by the near parallel lives of Hopkinsville "Hoptown," Kentucky natives: bell hooks and Regina Bowden, MK's mother. The performance surrounds audiences in Sistering, a blueprint of fortified tenderness designed by southern black women, girls and gender expansive folks.

In this residency, choreographer Lionel Popkins, will develop Reorient the Orient, a multifaceted exploration blending performance, installation, and social critique. Responding to the complex history of interculturalism, Popkin amplifies the presence of brown South Asian bodies in contemporary art and performance. The final work will create an immersive public sharing across Dance Place's theater, lobby, and studios, community members will be invited to explore freely, choosing their path and encounters.