EDUCATION

BEMOVING offers high-quality, financially accessible workshops for professional dancers and dance enthusiasts. Every week, we host donation-based contemporary dance classes, serving a community of more than 200 regular attendees. Our teaching artists work with leading dance organizations in the US and abroad such as The Juilliard School, USC’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, CalArts, Jacob’s Pillow, Nederlands Dans Theater, Batsheva Dance Company, and The Forsythe Company. Most importantly, in 2023 alone BEMOVING offered $15,000 worth of scholarships to attendees from marginalized communities with a priority to local, regional, and state-wide applicants.

Invited teaching artists have included prominent Los Angeles dancers such as Jermaine Spivey, Spenser Theberge, Bobbi Jene Smith, Nina Flagg, Jillian Meyers, Julia Eichten, Karen Chuang, and Austin Tyson.

PRODUCTIONS

Since 2018, BEMOVING has produced 13 new works that have been viewed by more than 10,000 people and presented throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Notable productions include LA native Kevin Zambrano’s HOUSE OF RED, a 60-minute outdoor dance-theater work that explores queer nightlife, and Austin Tyson’s dance film, LONG DISTANCE, a send-off to Japanese artist Itaru Sasaki’s “wind phone” installation, which asks visitors to have conversations with lost loved ones. In 2024, BEMOVING will be partnering with Whim W’Him, Culture Lab, b12, and Backhaus Dance to premiere new works.

RESIDENCIES

BEMOVING hosts an annual residency program that enables dance artists from historically marginalized groups opportunities to further their craft and receive hands-on professional development.

Since 2021, BEMOVING has invited dance and movement artists to participate in its GHOST LIGHT RESIDENCY, which has hosted 10 residents to date. All residents receive a week-long residency inside of an LA theater, collaboration with the theater’s technical department, photo and video documentation, an opportunity to publicly present their practice and work, and a $1,000 honorarium.