Events
CONTRA-TIEMPO is excited to share “joyUS justUS” and “Roots of Loving US” at this years Design of Sharing at CAP UCLA! Click to RSVP your school!
A CONTRA-TIEMPO and Cornerstone Theater collaboration that we’ve all been waiting for! Click to get your tickets now!
Join us for an evening of beautiful things—live art, music, dance, and a sneak peek into a brand new work.
this interactive activation invites participants to move together in community, exploring ancestral technologies of joy, call-and-response dance traditions, and somatic practices that restore and resource us. Whether opting into high-energy group dance or reflective bodywork, the session offers inclusive options for all bodies and states of being—reminding us that our bodies matter, that rest is resistance, and that moving together is a powerful practice of repair and resilience.
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Rueda de casino with Ana Maria Alvarez! come learn some Cuban style salsa danced in a circle. Share in community and lets dance together!
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Salsa y Tus Raices with Jannet, you will travel across Latin America discovering new ways move our hips, to groove with our shoulders, and release joy!
CONTRA-TIEMPO live at Green Music Center in Sonoma, CA! See you soon!
CONTRA-TIEMPO will be at Harvard University for 2 days of power building, joy making, and harnessing our resilience! Join us!
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
“Breaking taught me this…” with Ruby!
Breaking makes us confront our resilience, our creativity, and how we show up in community. Let’s get down together!
All community- and publicly engaged scholars and students in the humanities are invited to a community event with a screening of the film AIRE LIBRE. The event is cosponsored by the Division of Humanities, the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, and the Center for Community Engagement.
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Celebrating milestones in the LA Dance scene! Join us for a night of celbration and remembrance.
Join CONTRA-TIEMPO for a FREE public event! The day will include free legal services, family programming, food, a song writing workshop with Martha Gonzalez, conversations, musical performances curated by Grand Performances with Rubén Albarrán and Making Movies and others, and more.
Dance Workshop with CONTRA-TIEMPO: Moving Fear Into Joy - A joyous community dance jam led by CONTRA-TIEMPO activist dance theater for participants of all ages and skill levels. Dancers will lead participants through Afro-Latine ancestral movement technologies such as salsa, rumba, samba, and hip-hop grooves, embodying joy as a tool to build community and restore hope.
Join Mari and holly on Thurs Sept 11 for a evening of healing, reflection and powerbuilding all through movement!
Come dance and experience guided performances, storytelling, and interactive spaces that honor our immigrant roots and shared values!
Movement for the Movement: Arts + Activism Workshop in South LA
CONTRA-TIEMPO in partnership with Community Coalition will share through embodied experience - how artists and oganizers collaborate & build lasting community impact. through movement-based activities, dialogue, and storytelling, you’ll learn strategies for:
Building authentic partnerships across sectors
Engaging communities through creative pratice
Using the arts as a catlyst for social change
Set in the heart of South Los Angeles, you’ll meet the artists and organizers who are behind-the-scenes, hear their stories, and witness how the arts can fuel social movements and strengthen community bonds. Along the way, you’ll see a part of Los Angeles that’s often overlooked but essential to understanding the city’s dynamic cultural lansdscape.
Movement for the Movement is open to the public and located at the CoCo headquarters in South Los Angeles.
You’ll leave feeling inspired and equipped with practical tools, fresh perspectives, and real-world examples you can bring back to your organization, your community and your audiences.
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Register for our 10 day summer dance intensive!
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Join us and witness the heart of our work at Dancing Home: Bonding & Belonging. Come enjoy refreshments, music, dance and community as we culminate this 11-week series!
Join us for a showcase of impactful media documentaries created by Cal State LA students!
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Erin Cooney’s Aire Libre is a dance-based video installation that examines air and soil pollution in Los Angeles County and its disproportionate effect on lower-income communities of color living amidst the heavy industry and infrastructure that underpin our capitalist, fossil-fuel-based economy. Join us for the premiere featuring special performances by the collaborating artists!
Visit Torrance Art Museum today to watch Aire Libre, a dance-based video installation that examines toxic air and soil pollution in Los Angeles County and its disproportionate effect on lower-income communities of color living amid the heavy industry, infrastructure, and polluting facilities that underpin our capitalist, fossil-fuel-based economy.
Join us March 28th at 7pm and 8:30pm at the Walt Disney Concert Hall! This is a FREE, one-night-only dance party is an open invitation to all Angelenos to connect with one another through the universal language of dance and music. Follow along with instructors Jannet Galdamez, Jasmine Stanley, and Amainary Contreras
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Dancing Home- with CPC, CONTRA-TIEMPO, and RESPONSIVE BODY
‘roots of loving us’ related workshops
We want to learn ways to re-build trust and connection with one another creating our own ‘communities of care and villages of love’. We will get together in Spring 2025 over 11 workshops to build skills and to practice using our body, voices, movement, and collective power to expand justice, equity, and housing for all of us.
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
CONTRA-TIEMPO and Echoes of Hope is partnering up to develop a 1-month residency program for our South LA family! Participants can expect 11 workshops of dancing, story-telling, and community building.
RSVP Only
CONTRA-TIEMPO presents joyUS justUS at Portland Ovations!
Experience the energy of CONTRA-TIEMPO in our monthly classes, led by company members. Dive into Afro-Latin and contemporary dance forms, open to all levels, and connect with our vibrant dance community.
CONTRA-TIEMPO presents joyUS justUS at UCSD!
CONTRA-TIEMPO will be returning on November 16th to share ¡azúcar! with Tempe, AZ as part of the ASU Gammage Beyond series.
Engage in a conversation about anti-blackness in Latinidad. Join us for this unique collaboration between CONTRA-TIEMPO and our friends at Project Knucklehead!
CONTRA-TIEMPO is a 501(C)3 non-profit arts organization. Your donations are tax-deductible. (TAX ID#20-5477825)
