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HomeGrown Residency & Performance Opportunities 2025-2026 applications are OPEN!

In collaboration with Dance Resource Center (DRC); Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Fusion Performing Dance Academy, Alvas LLC, The Music Center and Theatre Raymond Kabbaz will offer studio/performance space, at no cost, to eligible local choreographers & movement-based companies. Residencies take place between November 2025 and July 2026.

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The Dance Resource Center is offering an Emergency Relief Micro-Grant to help support LA’s professional Dance Community during the current state of emergency.

DRC’s LA Emergency Relief & Recovery Fund provides emergency relief to Greater LA dancers, choreographers, dance companies & organizations facing financial hardship caused by the loss of housing and/or rehearsal space and/or performances and/or teaching dance/movement class cancellations due to the LA County wildfires. Approved applicants may receive monetary support as long as funds are available.

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Due to LA County wildfires, the Dance Resource Center is providing Emergency Relief Micro-Grants to support LA’s professional dance community. You can help keep LA dancing.

If you are in a position to do so, please consider contributing to DRC’s Los Angeles Emergency Relief & Recovery Fund and partner with us to keep LA dancing, especially through this challenging time.

The more we raise, the more we can distribute. No amount is too small.

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“DRC is our first call when we search for dance companies and dancers in our City, when we guide new dance companies, when we announce our grant opportunities and set grant panelists, and when we wish to check the temperature on issues concerning the dance community at large.”

Susan Obrow, Performing Arts & Special Events, City of Culver City

"We found the experience of working with DRC to be everything we thought it would be-artistically fulfilling, administratively manageable, and we got new audiences to see our work.”

Gema Sandoval, Artistic Director, Danza/Floricanto

“Dear Amazing Friends @ Dance Resource Center, Thank you so much for supporting artists at a crazy time like this...knowing that there is an organization that cares for the well-being of the artist – that truly cares enough to do something – brings me hope and inspiration.”

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CAP UCLA brings the world’s most innovative and dynamic performing artists live to the stages of UCLA’s Royce Hall, Freud Playhouse, UCLA Little Theater, The Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater, The United Theater on Broadway and the new UCLA Nimoy Theater. They seek out excellence in dance, music, theater, spoken word and a broad spectrum of multidisciplinary collaborations.

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