DAnce + Community= joy
Mission
Brockus Project Dance company’s mission is to increase access and impact of Dance in an equitable way raising the voices of LA choreography through providing access to all and educating the public in the art form of dance by exposing the public to diverse voices in high quality, life changing dance with live performances, studio space, showcases and arts education.
HISTORY
BPDC was created in 1994 by founding artistic director Deborah Brockus to provide access to affordable quality dance in the greater LA region and to provide creative outlet for the voices of artists to tell the stories of LA. Brockus observed that missing was opportunities for concert dancers to perform and choreography to be seen and mentorship, reviews and support for starting dance companies was not available. Brockus Project Dance Company was created at a time when there was not much concert dance in LA. Over the years since 1994, BPDC has worked to enact change, bring more inclusion to the table and level the playing field we have watched the community grow and continue to push for a stronger more inclusive community and voice in the arts. BPDC has provided development and access to artists from our culturally and racially diverse community in the greater LA region providing a space and encouragement for artistic development for contemporary voices from all backgrounds. Over the years, our organization has: produced over 200 showcases for local choreographers from emerging to advanced professionals involving over 500 choreographers and thousands of dancers and audience members and fought to get each show reviewed, and provided video and photos to each company for their publicity use, hosted over 20 international master classes and 10 long workshops hundreds of open adult classes providing artistic professional development, numerous town halls and lectures, worked with over 15,000 of LA’s at risk youth both in school and after school in classes and performances, connected dance to community with annual Dance/BACK charity events, raised the visibility and viability of LA Dance by creating emerging showcases and the high level Los Angeles Dance Festival to increase the viability careers for LA companies, served hundreds of dancers and choreographers by creating a hub and home for concert dance in our rehearsal studio BPS, empowering artists by included mentoring of arts administration and involvement for the next generation to ensure stability and continuity of arts growth in the future, created international exchanges with France, India, Korea and Finland. While also serving the arts community as a whole we have developed BrockusRED as the artistic vehicle for company artistic creation performances, touring to France, South Korea as well as performing across the US and regionally developing arts hubs in 3 underserved areas a few hours out of LA. BrockusRED performance have brought high quality dance.
- Performing company BrockusRED
- Production showcases LADF, Dance/Back, Spectrum
- BPStudios concert dance and education hub
- RedED youth programs in school, after school,
- SHIFT residence, GROW workshops & master classes
Brockus Project Dance Company has achieved a great deal with very little due to the passion and hard work of a number of dedicated and skilled team members under the leadership of Deborah Brockus. BPDC currently has a core of part time staff of 4 plus the director, 10 teaching artists, and 8 dancers. All of these people are multi-skilled and dedicated to achieving our mission to advance access to quality dance in Los Angeles.
Funders and partners
working with and in community