Suárez Dance Theater is a Santa Monica-based not-for-profit ensemble that stimulates social change through dance-making and creative practices. By asking what is dance, where we dance, and why we dance, the company ignites conversations and illuminates collective unspoken stories to build community. They create at the intersection of collaborative dance-making projects and community organizing programs with the goal to erase the line between “community outreach” and professional artistry. Suárez Dance Theater passionately fosters new communities through the act of moving and creating together where individuals can connect with their bodies, each other and find their own expressivity. The work happens in theaters, houses, classrooms, parks, churches, hospitals, galleries, sidewalks, and beaches. Suárez Dance Theater collaborators include multi-generational professional performers, designers and musicians along with parents, children, veterans, health care workers, high school students, teen mothers, older adults and people experiencing homelessness.