School of Dance

On Saturday, July 31, the Mobile Dance Film Festival in New York City presents Swell, a short film by CalArts student and choreographer Taylor Donofrio (Dance MFA 22). The festival is the first of its kind, featuring works shot entirely on mobile devices.  Donofrio collaborated with several...

The return of live audiences to the REDCAT stage kicks off on Thursday, July 8, with the premiere of Rosanna Gamson/World Wide’s latest theatrical dance piece, Sugar Houses. Originally slated to debut in March 2020, Sugar Houses had to be postponed because of the pandemic. Live...

The Herb Alpert Foundation recently announced the recipients of the 2021 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA). The awards have traditionally recognized mid-career artists pushing the boundaries of Dance, Film/Video, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts.

With an exploration of where dance is right now and where it’s going, the CalArts Spring Dance Concert opens tonight (April 29), at 8 pm PST, as a live streamed performance. There will be a second performance on Friday, April 30.  This season’s concert follows the success of the livestreamed...

Programmed by Jennie Park (Art, Creative Writing MFA 22) and Fabian Vasquez Euresti (Film/Video MFA 10), the Feeler Gauge Festival opened virtually earlier this month, featuring 32 films by CalArts BFA, MFA, and alumni filmmakers from across the Institute.  The overarching concept of the...

The 2021 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema presents a virtual screening of CalArts faculty Francesca Penzani’s (Dance-IM MFA 99) short dance film “Double Up” (2017) as part of its Black History Month programming, running from Friday, Feb. 26 to Sunday, Feb....

On Friday, Dec. 18, students from CalArts’ Choreographers & Composers course will present their final works over Zoom. Choreographers & Composers is co-taught by David Rosenboom and Dimitri Chamblas, deans of The Herb Alpert School of Music and The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance,...