With support from the California Arts Council, INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE will provide health insurance, fair wages, and subsidies for internet fees for its part-time staff, dancers and teaching artists, as well as additional paid vacation days for its full-time staff 100% of whom identify as women, trans, and/or as part of the LGBTQIA++ community. Staff support will underwrite at least three Invertigo Dance Theatre public events and performances per year and weekly Dancing Through Parkinson’s classes, which are free and accessible for people with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative and age-related conditions.
Invertigo’s core programming is focused on offering dance theatre as a catalyst for racial equity and public engagement with and between communities that are systemically marginalized and less resourced. All programs activate dance as a transformational mode of storytelling and community-building as part of a movement practice. Invertigo pursues its mission through its professional dance repertory and production company, and a series of community engagement programs, including Dancing Through Parkinson’s. In 2018, Invertigo was awarded the National Dance Project Production Award – one of the highest national honors in dance – for its new dance production, FORMULAE & FAIRY TALES, hailed as “dance theatre at its finest” by the LA Dance Chronicle and declared “a breakthrough show” by the LA Times.

