SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DANCE COLLECTIVE
*** Creating Intentional Community Through Dance ***

The Southern California Dance Collective is a group of people who love to dance. We are especially interested in the place where dance and community meet. One of our goals is to create more of these places in our lives. Our backgrounds in dance are as varied as the forms of dance and movement we enjoy, but we have a common love of the freeform improvisational dance that happens in Southern California at places such as Dance Home in Santa Monica, Dance Jam in San Diego and Dance Away in Santa Barbara. We appreciate the smoke and alcohol-free, nonjudgmental atmosphere each of these places provides. It is through these dances that many of us have met and come together to create this cooperative.

We are looking for fun-loving dance and community enthusiasts to join us in creating future events and collaborations. We include and financially support our pioneering dance teachers and facilitators who have created the dance experiences and spaces that have nurtured our love of dance and community.

We have been inspired by the very successful dance gatherings held by our sister groups in Northern California and New England. Our aim is to create low cost, not-for-profit, freestyle barefoot dances in the Southern California Area. We are producing special dance events that everyone can afford and anyone can attend, including dance weekends and an annual weeklong dance camp in nature. While centered in dance, our events include all forms of creative self-expression--these include music making, singing, playing, yoga, meditation and experiences that build intimacy and foster community.

We invite all people of good will, regardless of race, sex, gender, religion, age or ability. We welcome children and people with special needs. If you share our vision and you have skills, resources or passion to volunteer, or if you would just like to participate in our events, we invite you to join us.