Who We Are

CITYDANCE—LET US MOVE YOU. Watch a performance. Take a class. Or help a child do both. We invite you to discover the power, passion, and purpose of dance.

Professional Dance Company—CityDance Ensemble attracts world-renowned dancers, choreographers, artists, and educators to create and bring innovative modern dance to Washington, DC. In residence at the Music Center at Strathmore, and one of only a few full-time professional dance companies in the DC metropolitan area, we perform at The Kennedy Center, Harman Center for the Arts, Music Center at Strathmore, across the nation, and around the world.

Dance Outreach Programs—We ensure that children from DC’s most underserved neighborhoods have access to free dance classes and performances. We perform in front of 15,000 students each year and our instructors teach in more than 20 schools and community centers. CityDance is committed to building a new generation of dancers and empowering youth through dance.

Dance School & Pre-Professional Program—We provide high-quality dance training to children and adults. A faculty of highly trained master instructors teach classes in such genres as contemporary, ballet, jazz, hip hop, and African. Our audition only, pre-professional program, CityDance Conservatory/Select, is unique to the region and prepares talented students ages 13-18 for careers in contemporary dance—whether it be on the concert stage, in commercial work, or as entry to a college dance program. The first Studio Scholarship Fund was launched in June 2008.

Dance-on-Camera—We create original dance-on-camera productions through our FilmWORKS division. Developing stand-alone dance films, videos of company rehearsals and artist interviews, and multi-media works that stretch the boundaries between stage and screen, we make dance accessible to new and expanded audiences through the use of technology, internet, and film.

Watch our Documentary

Journey through the history and work of CityDance from its founding in the summer of 1996 to today in this documentary on the company. With reflections by some of its most important voices and images and footage shot in Washington, DC and around the world, this Inside Look at CityDance is the story of the company's Power, Passion, and Purpose.

Mission

The mission of CityDance Ensemble, Inc. is to advance the appreciation for and participation in the art of dance through excellence in performance, education, film, and artistic innovation.

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