We are fast approaching the end of this year’s performance season but several of the performance venues in Los Angeles – The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, CAP UCLA, The Soraya, BroadStage; the Ford Theatre, The Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz, The Musco Center for Arts, The Carpenter Center, and the Irvine Barclay Theatre – have announced their 2024-2025 dance season. Below are what has been posted thus far. We have provided hyperlinks to each company and to each venue’s website for more information and to purchase tickets.
Rosanna Gamson / WorldWide. Photo courtesy of RGWW.
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts – 2024-2025
L.A. Dance Project – Friday, October 10, 2024 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, October 11, 2024 @ 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM. On the program: Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo & Juliet Suite.
Circa Humans 2.0 – Friday, October 17, 2024 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, October 17, 2024 @ 2:00 PM.
BODYTRAFFIC – Friday, December 6, 2024 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, December 7, 2024 @ 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM. On the program: I Forgot The Start by Matthew Neenan WEST COAST PREMIERE & New Works by Juel D. Lane and Martha Nichols.
Rosanna Gamson/World Wide – Thursday, January 30 & Friday, January 31, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, February 1, 2025 @ 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM. On the program: MEMORYHOUSE by Rosanna Gamson.
A.I.M By Kyle Abraham – Friday, April 10, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday – April 11, 2025 @ 2:00 PM. On the program: Andrea Miller’s latest work YEAR and Kyle Abraham’s If We Were a Love Song.
Mark Morris Dance Group – Friday, May 15, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, May 16, 2025 @ 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM; Sunday, May 17, 2025 @ 2:00 PM. On the program: PEPPERLAND by Mark Morris.
L.A. Dance Project – Friday, June 12, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, June 13, 2025 @ 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM. On the program: GATHERINGS & Me.You.We.They by Benjamin Millepied.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit The Wallis website.
Grupo Corpo – Gira – Photo by Jose Luiz Pederneiras.
Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center
Urban Bush Women (Music Center Debut) – Mark Taper Forum – Friday, November 22, 2024 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, November 23, 2024 @ 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM; and Sunday, November 24, 2024 @ 2:00 PM. On the program: SCAT!… The Complex Lives of Al & Dot, Dot & Al Zollar (West Coast Premiere) by Jawole Willa Jo-Zollar.
Batsheva Dance Company – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion – Friday, February 14, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, February 15, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; and Sunday, February 16, 2025 @ 2:00 PM. On the program: MOMO by Ohad Naharin.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion – Wednesday, April 2, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Thursday, April 3, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Friday, April 4, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, April 5, 2025 @ 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM; Sunday, April 6, 2025 @ 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM. On the program: Mixed repertory.
Corpo – Ahmanson Theatre – Friday, May 2, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, May 3, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; and Sunday, May 4, 2025 @ 2:00 PM. On the program: 21 and Gira by Rodrigo Pederneiras.
Boston Ballet – Dorothy Chandler Pavilion – Thursday, June 26, 2025 @ 7:30; Friday, June 27, 2025 @ 7:30 PM; Saturday, June 28, 2025 @ 1:00 PM & 7:30 PM; and Sunday, June 29, 2025 & 2:00 PM. On the program: Swan Lake with live orchestra, choreography by Mikko Nissinen, after original by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center’s website.
Jay Carlon – Photo courtesy of the artist.
CAP UCLA
Jay Carlon – The Nimoy – October 11, 2024 @ 8:00 PM. On the program: World Premiere of Carlon’s WAKE.
Gregory Maqoma – The Nimoy – Saturday, December 14, 2024 @ 8PM. On the program: Maqoma’s The Land We Carry.
Faustin Linyekula – Freud Playhouse – Saturday, January 18, 2025 @ 8PM. On the program: Linyekula’s My Body My Archive.
Shamel Pitts/TRIBE – Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater – Saturday, February 15, 2025 @ 8PM. On the program: BLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon.
Eiko Otake/Wen Hui – The Nimoy – Thursday, April 17, 2025 @ 8PM – On the program: What is War.
Miguel Gutierrez – The Nimoy – Friday and Saturday, May 9 – 10, 2025, @ 8PM – On the program: Super Nothing.
Rianto – The Nimoy – Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 8PM – On the program: Medium.
For more information and tickets, please visit the CAP UCLA website.
Lula Washington Dance Theatre performs excerpts from “Fragments” by Lula Washington at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on January 30, 2020 – Photo by Kevin Parry
Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz
Lula Washington Dance Theatre – 45th Season Anniversary Launch – Thursday, January 16, 2025 @ 8:30 PM – On the program: Varied repertory works.For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz website.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet in Dwight Rhoden’s “Snatched Back From the Edges” – Photo by Karen Tapia/Musco Center
Segerstrom Center’s 2024/2025 Dance Series
Complexions Ballet – Friday, September 20, 2024 @ 7:30pm – On the program:FOR CRYING OUT LOUD, a brand-new work featuring the music of U2. In this raw and unfiltered piece choreographed by Dwight RhodenSergio Bernal Dance Company – Saturday, November 9, 2024 @ 7:30pm.
Sergio Bernal Dance Company – November 9, 2024 – 7:30pm- On the program: by Bernal and choreographer Ricardo Cue, A Night with Sergio Bernal melds the bravado and speed of Spanish flamenco with the grace and precision of ballet.
American Ballet Theatre – December 12–24, 2024 – see website for curtain times. – On the program: The Nutcracker.
Martha Graham Dance Company – Saturday, January 18, 2025 @ 7:30pm – On the program: Dances of the Mind, focusing on Graham’s psychological works, multifaceted women characters, and longtime artistic partnership with renowned visual artist Isamu Noguchi.
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – Friday, February 7, 2025 @ 7:30pm – On the program: A reimagining of The Collective Agreement, and 2013’s Concerto for Two Violins.
Twyla Tharp 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee – Saturday, February 15–16, 2025 @ 7:30pm – On the program: Philip Glass’s “Aguas da Amazonia,” arranged and recorded by members of Third Coast Percussion in close collaboration with Tharp and performed on a unique collection of custom-designed percussion instruments.
Ballet Folklorico de Mexico – Thursday, March 22, 2025 at 7:30pm – Program not announced.
American Ballet Theatre – Thursday – Sunday, April 3–6, 2025 @7:30pm, Matinees at 2:00pm – On the program: Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale.
Miami City Ballet – Thursday, June 19–22, 2025 @ 7:30pm – On the program: Swan Lake.
For more information and tickets, please visit The Segerstrom Center website.
STOMP – Photo courtesy of the company
Dance at The Soraya
Ballet BC – Saturday, November 23, 2024 @ 8:00 PM. On the program: New works by Medhi Walerski and Crystal Pite.
Dorrance Dance – Thursday, December 12, 2024 @ 8:00 PM. On the program The Nutcracker Suite.
STOMP – Saturday, January 18, 2025 @ 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM; and Sunday, January 19, 2025 @ 3:00 PM.
Twyla Tharp Dance – 60th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee – Saturday, February 22, 2025 @ 8:00 PM; and Sunday, February 23, 2025 @ 3:00 PM.
Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández – Friday, March 14, 2025 @ 8:00 PM; and Saturday, March 15, 2025 @ 1:00 PM.
LA Dances Graham featuring Lula Washington Dance Theatre and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance – Saturday, April 26, 2025 @ 8:00 PM.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit The Soraya website.
RUBBERBAND – “Vic’s Mix” by Victor Quijada – Photo by Mary Mallaney
Dance at BroadStage
Is It Thursday Yet? (Dance/Theatre) – Thursday – Saturday, October 3 -5 @ 7:30 PM.
RUBBERBAND Dance – Saturday, March 8, 2025 @7:30 PM; and Sunday, March 9, 2025 @ 2:00 PM.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit The BroadStage website.
Dorrance Dance performing ETM: Double Down- Photo by Christopher Duggan
Ford Theatre
The Motherboard Suite featuring Saul Williams and Directed by Bill T. Jones – Friday August 9, 2024 @ 8:00 PM.
100 Anos de Libertad produced in partnership with Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company – Saturday, August 17, 2024 @ 8:00 PM.
Michelle Dorrance & Friends featuring Jillian Meyers, Josette Wiggan, + more. – Friday, September 6, 2024 @ 8:00 PM.
Blue13: 100 Seconds to Midnight produced in partnership with Blue13 Dance Company – Saturday, September 28, 2024 @ 8:00 PM.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Ford Theatre website.
Pilobolus – “Megawatt” by Jonathan Wolken – Photo by John Kanebug
The Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham – Saturday, October 12, 2024 @ 8:00 PM – On the program: World premiere of a Carpenter Center-commissioned work by Paul Singh!
Pilobolus – Saturday December 7, 2024 @ 8:00pm – On the program: re:CREATION
Ballet Hispánico – Saturday, March 15, 2025 @ 8:00pm – On the program: CARMEN. maquia
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit The Carpenter Performing Arts Center’s website.
Parsons Dance – Photo by Mary Mallaney
Dance at the Irvine Barclay Theatre
National Choreography Initiative (20th Celebration) – Saturday, July 27, 2024 @ 8:00 PM. On the program: Four new ballets by four choreographers: Charles Askegard, Cherice Barton, DaYoung Jung, and Donna Salgado.
World Ballet Company – Thursday, September 19, 2024 @ 7:00 PM; and Friday, September 20, 2024 @ 7:00 PM – On the program: Swan Lake.
Festival Ballet Theatre – Saturday, December 7 through Tuesday, December 24, 2024 – On the program The Nutcracker. For more information, please visit the Irvine Barclay Theatre website.
Luis Bravo’s Forever Tango – Friday, March 14, 2025 @ 8:00 PM.
Festival Ballet Theatre – Saturday, April 12, 2025 @ 7:00 PM; and Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM – On the program: The Sleeping Beauty.
Parsons Dance Company – Thursday, April 17, 2025 @ 8:00 PM.
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana: Quinto Elemento – Thursday, May 1, 2025 @ 8:00 PM.
BODYTRAFFIC – Thursday, May 15, 2025 @ 8:00 PM.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Irvine Barclay Theatre website.
Relámpago del Cielo* Grupo Folklórico – Viaje Por Mexico – Photo courtesy of the company.
The Musco Center for the Arts
Relámpago del Cielo* Grupo Folklórico – Saturday, August 17, 2024 @ 7:30pm – On the program: La Cultura Colorida Featuring Mariachi Santa Monica.
For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Musco Center for the Arts website.
Compiled by Jeff Slayton for LA Dance Chronicle from information at venue websites.
Featured image: Batsheva – MOMO -Photo by ASCAF
