Kaitlin Wright

Laguna Dance’s inaugural three-week residency pairs professional dancers with apprentices and teenagers to build world premieres from scratch. For three weeks this summer, a group of dancers has had the experience to fully immerse themselves in making a new piece of work, together, with nowhere else to be. There’s no company season pulling at their attention. No school. No full-length repertory piece that has to hold up across a dozen performances and a tour. Just one goal, followed through...

For 35 years, the National Choreographers Initiative gave ballet makers something almost no one else would: time, space and permission to fail. On July 25, it takes its final bow. Dancers take a bow at the conclusion of a piece during the 2025 National Choreographers Initiative showcase at Irvine Barclay Theatre. Photo courtesy of NCI/Skye Varga Molly Lynch, founder and artistic director of the National Choreographers Initiative (NCI), will tell you she didn't plan for it to become what it...

The 2026 festival brings nationally recognized companies, local artists and emerging voices together as the organization redefines its role in Orange County’s cultural landscape. Dayton Contemporary Dance Company dancers Sadale Warner and Qarrianne Blayr. Photo courtesy of Laguna Dance/Ben Jackson When Laguna Dance returns to the Laguna Playhouse Feb. 13-15 with its 2026 festival, “Love Letters,” the weekend brings together nationally recognized dance companies, local artists and emerging...

Over 10 years, the production has become a place where dancers grow up, families return and tradition is renewed each season. Snowflakes of American Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” embody both beauty and menace in Alexei Ratmansky’s Land of Snow. Photo courtesy of Segerstrom Center for the Arts When American Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” arrived in Orange County in December 2015, it wasn’t simply opening another holiday run. The company made a deliberate decision to anchor Alexei...

Re:born Dance Interactive will premiere a new work examining the human cost of war and the fragility of peace. Hyoin Jun performs in “ HOME” by Re:born Dance Interactive, presented Jan. 31–Feb. 2, 2025, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Re:born Dance Interactive/Taso Papadakis For nearly a decade, choreographer Boróka Nagy has been quietly shaping a corner of Orange County’s dance scene through Santa Ana-based Re:born Dance Interactive , a company known for transforming...

The bronze ballerina joins the visual art found across Segerstrom Center’s campus, on view all season. Close up detail of Karon Davis’...

The Santa Ana residency weaves choreography, visual art and music into a multisensory premiere. Backhausdance company members rehearse...

By pairing established troupes with emerging voices and even recreational adult dancers, the festival highlights the range of Southern...

From beloved classics to bold new works, four ballet performances showcase the art form’s past, present and future in performances this...

Ally Helman brings a New York pedigree and an ambitious vision to Orange County with Ballet Project OC’s upcoming performance at the...

Director and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon's emotionally rich Shakespeare adaptation finds new life at Segerstrom Center. Hee Seo...

Segerstrom’s new VP of programming aims to expand the center’s artistic scope, deepen community ties and build on its legacy. Limor Tomer...