Arts and Culture

Everybody dance! provides free or low-cost dance instruction to underserved, inner-city children in Los Angeles. Since 2000, when Everybody dance! opened its doors in a low-income housing project just west of downtown, the rigorous program has grown from 12 weekly classes and 35 students to 105 courses serving over 1,300 youth. Classes are offered in school to students at Gabriella Charter School and Camino Nuevo Charter Academy and after school to youth at studios in Pico-Union. Everybody dance! has an 18-member faculty of professional instructors. This two-year project will expand the after-school program by adding 19 courses and engaging 400 more young people.