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Causes: Arts & Culture, Children & Youth, Dance, Performing Arts, Performing Arts Schools, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Founded in 1980, dance place builds a community of artists, audiences, and students through high quality performances, commissions, training and educational programs. We are committed to enriching the field of dance locally, nationally and internationally. Our thriving arts campus serves as an anchor in the development of our brookland/edgewood neighborhood in washington, dc.
Programs: Dance place offers a year-round weekend dance performing series that presents modern dance, african dance, tap dance, performance art, hip hop, and spoken word by dc-based, national and international companies. Dance place provides a seasonal free public programming series in brookland/edgewood.
dance place offers family-friendly performances, workshops and classes both on-site and off-site for youth, families and community organizations. The energizers on-site enrichment programs provide creative education and job training through the arts for local youth.
dance place's school offers dance classes for adults and youth in a variety of dance forms. Dance place offers work/study and internship programs which offer aspiring dancers an opportunity to take dance classes for free. Dance place also provides free/affordable rehearsal space for artists to rehearse and create new works.