Dana Lawton Dances
20th Anniversary Season
Coming to Shawl-Anderson Center Theatre, October 2027
"Coming together, a time of solace and reflection, the celebration of the human body in motion."
— Jill Randall, Co-Executive Director of Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, on DLD’s recent work
Photo credit: Dianne Jones, @diannejphoto
Twenty years ago, Dana Lawton brought together a small group of dancers with a simple but uncommon conviction: that dance is most alive when it reflects the full range of human experience. Since 2007, Dana Lawton Dances has grown into one of the Bay Area's most distinctive companies — performing on stages from San Francisco to Bangkok, building a repertory of over 35 works, and continuing to ask what it means to move through the world together.
The 20th Anniversary project marks this milestone not with a retrospective, but with something new. Working closely with the company's multigenerational dancers, pianist Lino Rivera, and soprano Rita Lilly, Dana Lawton has created a suite of intimate solos and duets that explore connection, memory, vulnerability, and the individuality of the moving body. Set to live piano and a cappella voice, and developed in the new Shawl-Anderson Dance Center Theatre in Berkeley, the work embraces the close relationships between dancers, musicians, space, and audience that have always been at the heart of DLD's practice.
Photo credit: Piro Patton
Photo credit: Dianne Jones, @diannejphoto
The 20th Anniversary Season premieres Fall 2027. Ticket information will be announced as the date approaches. Sign up for the DLD newsletter to be the first to know.