School of Dance

CalArtians are featured in the lineup of nine new contemporary works at the 16th annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival, running from July 25-Aug. 10 at REDCAT in Downtown Los Angeles.  Each summer, the NOW Festival transmogrifies REDCAT into a cornucopia of dance, music, theater and...

Acclaimed dancer and choreographer draws on his expertise with performance in public places to direct a work for singers from communities throughout Los Angeles, as part of LA Phil’s Noon to Midnight festival

Presented by California Institute of the Arts’s (CalArts) pioneering World Music Program in collaboration with the DW Music Foundation (DWMF)and Latin Percussion (LP)   For the First Time in its 30+ Year History this Free Family Event Expands to Feature Two Stages, Twice the...

The CalArts Expo returns with recent projects by students and faculty forecasting future directions in digital performance, animation, augmented and virtual reality; gaming, robotics and machine learning. On May 3, 2018 the CalArts Expo invites visitors to take part in demonstrations and...

Presented by California Institute of the Arts’s (CalArts) pioneering World Music Program in collaboration with the DW Music Foundation (DWMF) and Latin Percussion (LP).

Concluding its three-year run, El Acercamiento/The Approach brings together Cuban and American artists in a series of collaborative events across Havana, Los Angeles and Miami. Students from Havana’s Instituto Superior de Arte and San Alejandro and California Institute of the Arts...

He might have just had a long day of rehearsals prepping for a performance at the Paris Internationale art fair, yet Dimitri Chamblas is energized as he talks about his new role. The 42-year-old took over this year as dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at the California Institute of...