Join the Dance Loft community in our whimsical production of Springtime Variations and Tales! This show will feature students from our youth program, Moveius dancers, and other community dancers.
An exhilarating final show of the Moveius Season. Muse features works from esteemed local choreographers and an exciting new work created by artistic director, Diana Movius. This is a season closer you won’t want to miss!
Dance Loft’s Annual Nutcracker is back for the holiday season. Join us for this magical journey through the land of sweets!
Dance Loft’s Annual Nutcracker is back for the holiday season. Join us for this magical journey through the land of sweets!
An original work created by Associate Artistic Direct, Alvaro Palau, Letters to Ourselves dives into stories surrounding the ideas of love, loss, and community. This work is an installation using the whole Dance Loft facility, a one of a kind creation you won’t want to miss! Due to the audience movement throughout the space, tickets are limited.
Join us for Moveius Contemporary Ballet's Fall Season opening show! With a dynamic start to the season, the company will be performing works by guest choreographers Royce Zackery, Sona Kharatian, Asami Seki, and Therese Gahl, along with a reprise from Adam Chavis. Artistic Director, Diana Movius will also be showcasing a preview of her next work to be presented at the National Portrait Gallery.
Join us for our free Summer performance at the National Portrait Gallery! The Moveius company will take the stage, performing two works by Artistic Director, Diana Movius, Seasons (2024) and Apocrita (2018)
Join Moveius for VISIONS, their final performance of the 2023/24 season! VISIONS offers five entrancing dance works compellingly reflecting on life and nature where you will witness works from acclaimed DC dancers Therese Gahl and Jenelle Figgins, Ballet Master Adam Chavis, and two works from Artistic Director Diana Movius, including the world premiere of Seasons. Spring Show Sponsorships and ticketing for our Spring Soirée can also be found on this page.
Join Dance Loft on 14 for our annual Spring Showcase, featuring Dance Loft’s youth students, Moveius Contemporary Ballet dancers, and community artists & renters. This family-friendly event is a wonderful goodbye to our spring semester and a perennial Dance Loft classic!
It’s Earth Month! In conjunction with the Portrait Gallery’s “Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism” exhibition, Moveius Contemporary Ballet will present "Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet." Created by Moveius Artistic Director Diana Movius, a climate policy expert, this piece imagines the dancers as melting polar ice caps; they ripple, crack and plunge in dance movements that connect the audience to the motion of ice in the arctic.
This event is free and open to the public! Join us at the Portrait Gallery’s Atrium for the performance.
Join us at Dance Loft to witness Moveius Contemporary Ballet rehearse GLACIER: A Climate Change Ballet, followed by a conversation with Choreographer, Dance Loft Artistic Director, and Climate Policy expert, Diana Movius.
Please RSVP here!
Join Moveius Contemporary Ballet for Voices from Within, a program created for The Atlas Intersections Festival in Washington, DC, featuring four female choreographers from the nation’s capital. Through movement’s power to spark kinesthetic empathy and connect audiences, these pieces create dance grounded in urgent and real world experiences. Purchase tickets here.
Join us this December at Dance Loft’s Blackbox Theater for our annual production of The Nutcracker! From our youth cohort to professional DC dancers and Moveius Contemporary Ballet members, our whole community takes part in this festive and classic tale.
Youth tickets can be selected below. For our student discount, use the code DANCESTUDENT at checkout.
Moveius Contemporary Ballet presents Tipping Point, a three-part meditation through dance on living in times of instability. Moveius’ Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet will take to the stage once more after it became the first ballet ever presented as part of an international climate conference in 2018. Created by Dance Loft/Moveius Artistic Director & Climate Policy Expert Diana Movius, this piece imagines the dancers as melting polar ice caps. Read more about the piece in The Washington Post here.
Associate Director, Alvaro Palau, and company member, Elizabeth Watson, present two new works focused on power dynamics. Watson’s Shortfall explores the effect of diminishing resources on a close-knit group, the drama heightened by percussive movements and the driving music of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero. Palau’s Birds of a Feather explores both exile and belonging, loosely inspired by a flock of birds. With this compelling program, Moveius Contemporary Ballet presents an exciting evening of dance relevant to our current times.
Learn more about Moveius Contemporary Ballet and the company members here.
We offer youth tickets for ages 12 and under, which can be selected below. Student discounts can be applied with the code DANCESTUDENT at checkout.
