The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts is one of the nation’s premiere colleges for the professional training of contemporary dance artists.
Both BFA and MFA programs offered. The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance is one of the nation’s premiere colleges for the professional training of contemporary dance artists. Technical excellence and innovative artistry are the hallmarks of the undergraduate and graduate programs. Concentrated production seasons of aesthetically diverse work thrive in an atmosphere of creative exchange between pr
08/20/2026
Next up: Kojiro Forman, headed to Beijing Dance Academy this semester. Not just on exchange, but on our very first exchange with the school. There are no CalArts Dance footsteps to follow over there yet; Koji gets to make them.
Safe travels, Koji. We’ll be cheering from Valencia ✨
This semester, 7 of our dancers are heading out on exchange! First up: Huitong Li and Megan Tehomilic, leaving it all on the stage before they go abroad.
Dress rehearsal clips from Intermission last fall. Just a few weeks until we’re back making the next one. ✨
What are you most excited to make this semester?
video clips: s a v a n n a
Composition 1 final assignment!! Each dancer studied a choreographer and made it their own.
Guess the inspiration behind each piece in the comments 🤍🤍⬇️⬇️
video: BFA 1 composition class with Rosanna Gamson
Transfer Student Tuesday with Troy: a day in my life as a CalArts dancer. Incoming and future students, drop your questions below! ⬇️
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06/01/2026
Another year of movement, experimentation, collaboration, risk-taking, and becoming.
From thesis performances to studio showings, mainstage productions to emerging choreographic voices — this year reflected the many ways artists at CalArts Dance continue to challenge form, build community, and imagine new futures through performance.
Featuring moments from:
Living Landscape by Zelia Tan
Prayer by Stephanie Zalatel
Open House: 5, 6/7 (8)
WE ARE GOING TO DESTROY WHAT WE HAVE by Gema Galiana
Intermission
Winter Dance Concert 2025
KATHA: THE CHARIOTER’S CODE by Rishi Sharma
BFA 2 Solos
EPIIC THESIS by Friidom Dunn
If We Had a Bounce House by Brian Golden
Emergent Forms by the BFA 4 Class of 2026
Thank you to the artists, collaborators, faculty, production teams, and audiences who shaped this school year.
See you in the Fall.
Photos by:
Julian Shelton, Rafael Hernandez, Cheryl Mann
Tomorrow, Emergent Forms premieres at .
A glimpse into rehearsal with choreography.
Join us May 13–14 at 8PM as the BFA 4 Class of 2026 takes the stage for their final premiere together.
REDCAT
May 13–14 • 8PM
Tickets in the link in bio!
Just days away from Emergent Forms at .
Featuring a rehearsal snippet from new work.
Premiering May 13-14 at 8PM.
Get your tickets in the link in bio!
One word reflections from Dance Film Making Class.
From collaboration to directing movement, hear how students describe the class, their growth, and the process of shaping work through film.
Join us tomorrow at 11AM in The Sharon Disney Lund Theater for a showing of original student dance films.
donofrio
05/01/2026
MFA & Alumni Spotlight ⭐️
Spanning first-year MFA artists to alumni: work unfolding across institutions and spaces.
April 30: MFA presented work at
May 1 & 2: MFA Alum presents new works at
May 5-8: MFA 1 ’s choreography in
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