DC/MD/VA Dance Events
💃🏽 – Primary Dance Genre
🎭 – Venue
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6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Noli Timere – Be Not Afraid
💃🏽 Contemporary
🎭 Capital One Hall
Noli Timere (Be Not Afraid) is presented in partnership with Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, in conjunction with Janet Echelman: Radical Softness exhibition on view in Reston, VA. Conceived by Lazier, a Guggenheim Award-winning choreographer and Echelman, a world-renowned sculptor Janet Echelman, Noli Timere presents a seamless, symbiotic interaction between movement and sculpture in which both are continually reshaped and transformed by one another.
$78+
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Hiroki Ichinose – Lay Him Quietly (1/2)
💃🏽 Contemporary
🎭 Dance Place
The Embassy of Sweden and Dance Place present Lay Him Quietly, choreographed by Hiroki Ichinose. This intimate dance duet explores the physical interaction between two men. The work explores how inherited cultural traditions and lived experiences, shaped at the intersection of queerness and race, settle within the body as a tender yet invisible weight that influences how we move, connect, and choose to love.
$Free!
7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Hiroki Ichinose – Lay Him Quietly (2/2)
💃🏽 Contemporary
🎭 Dance Place
The Embassy of Sweden and Dance Place present Lay Him Quietly, choreographed by Hiroki Ichinose. This intimate dance duet explores the physical interaction between two men. The work explores how inherited cultural traditions and lived experiences, shaped at the intersection of queerness and race, settle within the body as a tender yet invisible weight that influences how we move, connect, and choose to love.
$Free!
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Dance Theatre of Harlem – Firebird (1/3)
💃🏽 Ballet
🎭 The National
This DTH signature work, which premiered in Paris, is a feast for the senses, as the Russian folk tale is reimagined in a luscious Caribbean setting featuring John Taras’s choreography and Stravinsky’s iconic score. This exclusive D.C. engagement by Washington Performing Arts and Dance Theatre of Harlem is the latest in a 50-year history of collaboration first established in 1973. The program includes the lively Donizetti Variations—a masterclass of elegance and endurance set to Donizetti’s Don Sebastian opera—and Return, a soulful, high-octane celebration performed to the timeless sounds of James Brown and Aretha Franklin.
$78+
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Dance Theatre of Harlem – Firebird (2/3)
💃🏽 Ballet
🎭 The National
This DTH signature work, which premiered in Paris, is a feast for the senses, as the Russian folk tale is reimagined in a luscious Caribbean setting featuring John Taras’s choreography and Stravinsky’s iconic score. This exclusive D.C. engagement by Washington Performing Arts and Dance Theatre of Harlem is the latest in a 50-year history of collaboration first established in 1973. The program includes the lively Donizetti Variations—a masterclass of elegance and endurance set to Donizetti’s Don Sebastian opera—and Return, a soulful, high-octane celebration performed to the timeless sounds of James Brown and Aretha Franklin.
$78+
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Dance Theatre of Harlem – Firebird (3/3)
💃🏽 Ballet
🎭 The National
This DTH signature work, which premiered in Paris, is a feast for the senses, as the Russian folk tale is reimagined in a luscious Caribbean setting featuring John Taras’s choreography and Stravinsky’s iconic score. This exclusive D.C. engagement by Washington Performing Arts and Dance Theatre of Harlem is the latest in a 50-year history of collaboration first established in 1973. The program includes the lively Donizetti Variations—a masterclass of elegance and endurance set to Donizetti’s Don Sebastian opera—and Return, a soulful, high-octane celebration performed to the timeless sounds of James Brown and Aretha Franklin.
$78+
7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Music From The Sole – I Didn’t Come to Stay
💃🏽 Tap
🎭 GM – Center for the Arts, Concert Hall, Fairfax Campus
Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that blurs the line between concert dance and music performance, and celebrates tap’s roots in the African diaspora. Led by Brazilian tap dancer and choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and composer and bassist Gregory Richardson, their work draws from Afro-Brazilian, jazz, soul, house, rock, and Afro-Cuban styles. This performance is appropriate for all ages.
$38+
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
The 3rd Annual Latinx Movement Festival (2/2)
💃🏽 Multidisciplinary
🎭 Dance Place
The 3rd Annual Latinx Movement Festival: AMÉRICAS AWAKENING is a multidisciplinary arts festival dedicated to uplifting contemporary Latinx/e artists through performance, education, and community engagement in Washington, DC. During Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month, this year’s theme, AMÉRICAS AWAKENING, explores migration, identity, protest, citizenship, belonging, and the political realities shaping communities across the Americas. The festival will feature new commissioned dance works, poetry, visual art installations, public discussions, and performances by both local DMV-based artists and national guest artists.
$TBD
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Dissonance Dance Theatre – Through the Dark,
The Light Beckons (1/2)
💃🏽 Contemporary Modern
🎭 Publick Playhouse
This October, Washington, D.C.’s Dissonance Dance Theatre (DDT) celebrates its 20th anniversary season at the Publick Playhouse with Through the Dark, the Light Beckons, a powerful evening of movement and meaning rooted in the African American experience. Featuring beloved company repertoire and world premieres by acclaimed choreographer Shawn Short, the program unfolds in three chapters—the pulse and grit of the city’s streets; the fragments of memory that shape us; and the spirit, soul, and sophistication of everyday people.
$20
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The 3rd Annual Latinx Movement Festival (1/2)
💃🏽 Multidisciplinary
🎭 Dance Place
The 3rd Annual Latinx Movement Festival: AMÉRICAS AWAKENING is a multidisciplinary arts festival dedicated to uplifting contemporary Latinx/e artists through performance, education, and community engagement in Washington, DC. During Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month, this year’s theme, AMÉRICAS AWAKENING, explores migration, identity, protest, citizenship, belonging, and the political realities shaping communities across the Americas. The festival will feature new commissioned dance works, poetry, visual art installations, public discussions, and performances by both local DMV-based artists and national guest artists.
$TBD
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Virginia Ballet Company – Poetry in Motion
💃🏽 Contemporary/Ballet
🎭 Capital One Hall
This October 11, 2026, come watch the written word and movement coalesce in Poetry in Motion, Virginia Ballet Company’s fall contemporary performance.
$30+
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Dissonance Dance Theatre – Through the Dark,
The Light Beckons (2/2)
💃🏽 Contemporary Modern
🎭 Publick Playhouse
This October, Washington, D.C.’s Dissonance Dance Theatre (DDT) celebrates its 20th anniversary season at the Publick Playhouse with Through the Dark, the Light Beckons, a powerful evening of movement and meaning rooted in the African American experience. Featuring beloved company repertoire and world premieres by acclaimed choreographer Shawn Short, the program unfolds in three chapters—the pulse and grit of the city’s streets; the fragments of memory that shape us; and the spirit, soul, and sophistication of everyday people.
$20+
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Compagnie HERVÉ KOUBI
💃🏽 Contemporary / Urban Dance / Capoeira,
🎭 GM – Center for the Arts, Concert Hall, Fairfax Campus
Led by the Algerian choreographer Hervé Koubi, Compagnie HERVÉ KOUBI makes its thrilling Center for the Arts debut. Drawing from Algerian and Mediterranean culture, the company combines contemporary and urban dance, capoeira, and martial arts with powerful imagery and entrancing choreography.
$45+
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Georgian National Ballet – Sukhishvili
💃🏽 Georgian Ballet
🎭 GW – Lisner Auditorium
The world-famous Georgian National Ballet “Sukhishvili” will perform in the US to share with you a remarkable date – its 80th anniversary! To mark this occasion, a series of performances, exhibitions and other events will take place around the world throughout the year, giving you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the heritage of “Sukhishvili” and pay tribute to the incredible dance company that has become the face of Georgia. Despite modern elements and new ideas, “Sukhishvili” performances are always based on traditional Georgian dance, with its inherent intricate movements, colorful costumes and powerful storytelling.
$103+
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
The Washington Ballet – Go-Go 50 (1/4)
💃🏽 Ballet
🎭 Warner Theatre
Celebrate the opening of The Washington Ballet‘s 50th season with a powerhouse program at the Warner Theatre. We honor our roots and boldly embrace the future. This show contains choreography by Trey McIntyre, Choo San Goh, Edwaard Liang, and Chanel DaSilva.
$64+
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The Washington Ballet – Go-Go 50 (2/4)
💃🏽 Ballet
🎭 Warner Theatre
Celebrate the opening of The Washington Ballet‘s 50th season with a powerhouse program at the Warner Theatre. We honor our roots and boldly embrace the future. This show contains choreography by Trey McIntyre, Choo San Goh, Edwaard Liang, and Chanel DaSilva.
$64+
7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
The Washington Ballet – Go-Go 50 (3/4)
💃🏽 Ballet
🎭 Warner Theatre
Celebrate the opening of The Washington Ballet‘s 50th season with a powerhouse program at the Warner Theatre. We honor our roots and boldly embrace the future. This show contains choreography by Trey McIntyre, Choo San Goh, Edwaard Liang, and Chanel DaSilva.
$64+
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
The Washington Ballet – Go-Go 50 (4/4)
💃🏽 Ballet
🎭 Warner Theatre
Celebrate the opening of The Washington Ballet‘s 50th season with a powerhouse program at the Warner Theatre. We honor our roots and boldly embrace the future. This show contains choreography by Trey McIntyre, Choo San Goh, Edwaard Liang, and Chanel DaSilva.
$64+