Events
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.
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.
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.
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!
Please join us for a joyous community dance jam that is free and open to all.
CONTRA-TIEMPO will be facilitating various sessions the Women in Dance Conference in San Diego!
joyUS justUS continues to speak to the masses, and spread it’s ripples far and wide. Maria Garcia and Jasmine Stanley are looking forward to a 7-day teaching residency with the Wayne State Dance Program!
Experience a transformative evening of art and culture! Join us for a unique collaboration between CONTRA-TIEMPO and Self-Help Graphics.
CONTRA-TIEMPO is so excited to be sharing our work as part of the WAA conference, including panels and performances! Check out our full engagement schedule below!
Join us for 10 days of rigorous dance and movement classes in Los Angeles!
Join CONTRA-TIEMPO for a night of salsa dancing and perreando! Members from Celia’s last west coast orchestra and Cuba’s most legendary bands have come together to pay tribute to the Queen of Salsa. CONTRA-TIEMPO will be there keep the party going with a workshop!
Teach artivists, Jose Jose and Alek will be teaching a masterclass as part of the Jumpstart/LA summer Dance Intensive. To register for the dance intensive visit www.jumpstartla.dance/
We are excited to share ¡azúcar! with the folks of Connecticut and beyond. For more information, click here.
CONTRA-TIEMPO, Teapot LA, and Folktales and Fire collaborate to bring you an evening of storytelling. Join us on June 15 at Veteran Memorial Park as we share stories of healing, resilience, and sugar.
CONTRA-TIEMPO brings the new, reimagined ¡azúcar! to ArtPower at UC San Diego!
This winter dance production will feature three original new works of 3 professional choreographers who are from our dance faculty: Dr. grace shinhae jun (hip hop), Kara Mack (African Diasporic Movement) and Ana María Álvarez (Afro-Latine activist dance theater).
Catch “caña” by Ana Maria Alvarez and Meena Murugesan on March 15th at 4:30pm at AMC Mission Valley - Screen 10 as part of the San Diego Film Festival!
CONTRA-TIEMPO is a 501(C)3 non-profit arts organization. Your donations are tax-deductible. (TAX ID#20-5477825)
