About CityDance Ensemble

CityDance Ensemble, Inc., is the parent organization that includes CityDance Ensemble, a contemporary repertory dance company; CityDance Early Arts, an arts outreach program for youth; CityDance Education Centers, two facilities committed to excellence in dance training for youth and adults; and CityDance FilmWORKS, an award-winning creator and presenter of dance-on-camera.

The mission of CityDance Ensemble, Inc. is to advance the appreciation for and participation in the art of dance through excellence in performance, education, film, and artistic innovation.

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CityDance Ensemble was founded in 1996 and began as a group of 18 part-time dancers with day jobs who performed in a converted 100-seat dance studio.  Since it’s founding, CityDance has been on a steady climb as a “brave and talented troupe willing to take risks” (The Washington Post).  Now a full-time company of eight professional dancers, CityDance Ensemble is Washington, D.C.’s only contemporary repertory dance company and hires choreographers, composers, and musicians from the United States and around the world.

CityDance Early Arts, the company’s outreach education division, teaches and performs for more than 25,000 children in DC metro schools each year. Early Arts has an unwavering commitment to those communities where arts education is the least accessible and affordable. Early Arts runs a number of outreach programs, including its D.A.R.E. and D.R.E.A.M. programs.

CityDance operates two education facilities providing dance and fitness training for youth and adults. The CityDance Center at Strathmore opened in January 2005 and is located in the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland. It offers a full range of class and workshop offerings, as well as a conservatory program for pre-professional students. The CityDance Center at Mt. Vernon Square opened in January 2007 and is located in downtown Washington, DC at the Historic Carnegie Library. CityDance Center at Mt. Vernon Square offers weekly hip hop and swing classes for adults.

CityDance FilmWORKS creates original dances for the camera and presents internationally acclaimed films from around the world in an annual dance-on-camera festival. FilmWORKS presents both films for the cinema and multi-media works that appear alongside the repertory company. FilmWORKS films have been screened at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Place, and the Music Center at Strathmore.

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