Celebrating its 7^th year of bringing attention to the best contemporary dance in LA, Los Angeles Dance Festival (LADF) – this year partnering with the Luckman Fine Arts Complex and California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) gives the community programming over a month’s time – and an annual gathering place where the public can experience curated programs featuring the wide range of concert dance that is produced in southern California.  LADF also offers ways for the public to participate directly with the creators who work in this vibrant art form.

LADF features top talent in the dance scene who are recognized locally, nationally and internationally.  The dancers and choreographers in LADF work in both the concert and commercial Hollywood industry.

The companies of the main stage at The Luckman include Ate9, Backhausdance, BE MOVING, BODYTRAFFIC, BrockusRED, Bryn Cohn + Artists, CARLON, DIAVOLO | Architecture in Motion®, HD Theater, Ido Tadmor, Invertigo Dance Theatre, Iris Company, Kevin Williamson + Rosanna Tavarez/ LA DANSA DANSA, Sarah Elgart /Arrogant Elbow, and String Theory.

The Fringe companies include Akomi Dance, Benevolence, Fabe Dance, Mecca Vazie Andrews, SiZa Dance Company, THE ASSEMBLY, Project21Dance, Bernard Brown/bbmoves, Nannette Brodie Dance Theatre, Ken Morris Project, Bodies in Play, FUSE Dance Company, Charlotte Katherine & Co, JESS HARPER & Dancers, Eternity Dance Theatre, S A U M A | m v m t , Pony Box Dance Theatre, Emergent, Deborah Rosen and Dancers, Carpool Dance Collective, Nancy Evans Dance Theatre and Seoul International Dance Festival .

LADF main stage takes place April 12 -14 at the Luckman Theatre, in the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles CA 90032.  Tickets are available through luckmanarts.org. VIP packages and Student Discount tickets are only available through the Box Office.

LADF Fringe festival takes place April 26 – 28 at the Diavolo Studio Black Box in the Arts District, 616 Moulton Avenue, in Los Angeles.  In addition, LADF connects to the community with an array of dance classes and workshops mixing different dance styles from modern to avant-garde in a festival setting – April 5-17 and April 27-28.  For Fringe and master class information, visit ladancefest.org or call 562-412-7429.

LADF was founded in partnership with Diavolo; the dance company is LADF’s neighbor and is widely known from its series of appearances on America’s Got Talent. Diavolo was the co-producer, with LADF, for the first two years of the festival.

This year – featuring fifty companies over eight evenings in three venues during four weeks — LADF has its largest, most diverse offering in its history.  The Festival gives its audience and its participants a true snapshot of place and time, and represents the city itself — people from so many different ways of living, cultures, and counties make art in their voices here.  There is such a bounty of dance making here that we have the luxury of rotating companies – which helps us stay fresh.”

LADF at the Luckman Theater will also feature an LA Dance Photography exhibit and pre- show performances by some of the pre-professional students that we train in local colleges and high schools.  LADF Fringe at Diavolo Space will host the Seoul International Dance Festival as four choreographers are visiting Los Angeles