Dana Lawton Dances
The Bay Area’s premier multigenerational modern dance company
Photo credit: Dianne Jones, @diannejphoto
Upcoming Performance
Dana Lawton Dances 20th Anniversary Season
Dana Lawton Dances’ 20th Anniversary project is a new suite of intimate solos and duets created in collaboration with the company’s multi-generational dancers, pianist Lino Rivera, and soprano Rita Lilly. The work explores connection, memory, vulnerability, and the individuality of the moving body through live piano and a cappella voice. Developed at the new Shawl-Anderson Dance Center Theatre in Berkeley, the project embraces close relationships between dancers, musicians, space, and audience. The work will premiere in Fall 2027.
Photo credit: Dianne Jones, @diannejphoto
About DLD
Founded in 2007, Dana Lawton Dances is a Bay Area modern dance company unlike any other. Our dancers range from their mid-20s to mid-60s, and that's the point. Choreographer Dana Lawton creates work that celebrates the full arc of human experience, where seasoned wisdom and youthful energy don't just coexist, they make each other better.
Since our founding, DLD has performed across the Bay Area, nationally, and internationally, building a repertory of over 35 works that explore identity, connection, and what it means to move through the world together.
Photo credit: Andrio Fong