Since its bold beginning in 2006 Executive Producer Jamie Nichols has engaged diverse and electrifying dance talent. Each year Celebrate Dance’s annual dance production grows in applause and accolades from both dancers and audience alike. Celebrate Dance has presented over 70 dance companies to over 12,000 enthusiastic audience members in the annual event and has served as a platform for artists to enhance their craft, develop a foundation of support and propel their careers locally, nationally and abroad. Each participating dance company can also boast being part of critically acclaimed, seamlessly produced productions at the historic Alex Theatre.
To present accessible concert dance as a leading art form to the diverse Los Angeles population. To inform, educate and entertain audiences of all ages. To present work by professional and veteran dancers, choreographers and companies. To introduce the work of emerging choreographers and dancers in a professional environment and provide a venue for developing the artists of the future. To offer debut and premiere performances of companies from outside the Greater Los Angeles area. To offer dancers, choreographers and companies the opportunity to create new work, develop new audiences, network with other artists and be presented in an artistic environment.
JAMIE NICHOLS
