Pieter Performance Space is located in a 4000 square foot historic ballroom in Lincoln Heights LA, and provides a platform for local, national and international artists to explore their distinct and overlapping aesthetics and interests while building their LA audiences. Pieter’s offerings center communities often marginalized in arts and performance spaces and nourish and support the growth of LA’s creative community.

Pieter’s core programming welcomes more than 15,000 individuals each year and since its founding, Pieter has offered more than 4,000 workshops, classes, performances, and coalition-building meetings and presented more than 150 multidisciplinary artists. Pieter collaborates with dozens of regional organizations, collectives, and artist-led projects to ensure the strength of LA’s creative communities. Pieter’s core offerings include:

Community and Special Event Rentals: Pieter provides a robust community rental program for artists to use the studio as a platform for creative exploration, to teach classes and workshops, for performances and public offerings, for activist gatherings and healing arts programming, and for a range of other creative uses. Rental rates are tiered, offering lower subsidized rates to BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ , disabled individuals, and people experiencing financial hardship. Pieter also has a special event rental program with access to the studio at market rates for larger events and programs.
Classes and Workshops: Pieter hosts weekly and monthly classes and a rotating schedule of workshops from teachers across the spectrum of dance and movement arts. Classes prioritize teachers who represent marginalized communities and are designed to uplift and center students not represented or honored in arts and movement spaces.
Residencies and Performances: Pieter presents dance and interdisciplinary performance work by local, national, and international artists and offers paid artist residencies to highlight a diverse range of artists. Pieter also presents and hosts literary readings, live music, theater and other performance and creative presentations.