The Best Dance in Berkeley

Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center

The mission of Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center is to build community and understanding of the world's cultures by presenting concerts and classes in participatory dance and music rooted in traditional cultures from around the world. Ashke... more

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Axis Dance Company

Prepare to leave all your preconceptions at the door -AXIS Dance Company, one of the world's most acclaimed and innovative ensembles of performers with and without disabilities, will change the way you think about the possibilities of the human body... more

Berkeley Ballet Theater

Berkeley Ballet Theater (BBT) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the highest caliber of ballet training to students of every shape, size, ability, race, and age. Since its founding in 1981, BBT has provided rigorous programming, crea... more

Berkeley City Ballet

Berkeley City Ballet offers a structured learning environment with a curriculum that develops ballet technique (skills) over time from beginner to professional. As a non-profit for 47 years BCB has a prolific legacy at succeeding in preparing danc... more

Berkeley Moving Arts - Western Sky Studio

Berkeley Moving Arts is a center for dance and movement classes emphasizing a body-mind approach, encouraging each student to enjoy the experience of moving while learning the principles of body movement. Our teachers are recognized in their respecti... more

Cal Performances

The mission of Cal Performances is to inspire, nurture and sustain a lifelong appreciation for the performing arts. Cal Performances, the performing arts presenter and producer of the University of California, Berkeley, fulfills this mission by prese... more

Casa de Cultura - BrasArte

Housed in Casa de Cultura, BrasArte presents several annual activities thru its arts and culture program. These include: Yemanja Arts Festival (February), Carnaval Ball (February-March), Sao Joao Festival (June), Camp Erê (June-July), Lavag... more

DANCE MONKS

DANCE MONKS thrives on the creation and performance of innovative, experimental dance-art that awakens cross-cultural connections and explores our intimate relationship with nature. They are committed to working with artists of diverse disciplines;... more

Flux Vertical Theatre

Flux Vertical Theatre was established in 2015 and began as a performance company. Our small but mighty group of dancers performed all over the Bay Area and continues to grow! more

Luna Dance Institute

The mission of Luna Dance Institute is to bring creativity, equity and community to every child's life through the art of dance. more

Mahea Uchiyama Center For International Dance

The Mahea Uchiyama Center for International Dance is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization where the world comes to dance. We approach dance as a manifestation of the human spirit, rather than merely a collection of movements. Our students are encou... more

Rebecca Salzer Dance Theater

RSDT was founded in February, 1996. The company includes Katherine Davis, M. Koob, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Joseph Pikalek, Cynthia Rodriguez, Deanna Ross, Ami Student, Aimée Thomas-Goodrich, Frances Ward White, and Janet Weeks.(See Biographies.) Dubbed "t... more

Savage Jazz Dance Company

Founded in 1992 by Artistic Director, Reginald Ray-Savage, Savage Jazz Dance Company is a convergence of artistic forces, where the energy, improvisation, and syncopation of jazz is expressed through athletic, lyrical, and explosive dance. The only a... more

Shawl Anderson Dance Center

When Frank Shawl and Victor Anderson sank roots in the Bay Area from New York City 60 years ago they discovered a gaping void in the Bay Area arts scene: contemporary dance had no home in the East Bay and with no home it was unable to enlighten, insp... more

Spring Fall Dance Studio

Footloose is an arts-presenting and producing organization whose members are primarily focused on creating original dance theater work in collaboration with artists in the visual and performing arts, especially emerging and established women artists. more

Studio Azul

Beautiful 1800 sq. ft. bamboo dance floor, free wifi, heat, mirrors, theater lighting, sound system, skylights, high ceilings, aerial rigging points, mobile audience seating & risers. Seats 100 for performances. Plenty of free parking, wheelchair acc... more

The Beat

The Beat, Berkeley Performing Arts Center (BPAC) is a non-profit educational and public benefit organization focused on using dance, music and other vehicles of creative expression as a means for community and leadership development. The Beat - BPAC... more

Zellerbach Playhouse

Zellerbach Playhouse is a lab and performance space for the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and is therefore subject to restrictions on availability and use. more

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