Colburn Dance

The American Contemporary Ballet is coming to DTLA! Join them at the Bank of America Plaza for Spectacular Balanchine! from June 4 – 20, and, if you're a dance student, you can get free tickets for tonight's performance—June 5—with code BALLETTONIGHT !

The program includes dances from Stars and Stripes, Who Cares?, Western Symphony and Union Jack, all to live band music by composers George Gershwin, John Philip Sousa and Hershey Kay—and features two Colburn Dance alumni: Annette Cherkasov '20 and Quincey Smith '22, who will be retiring from Dance after the final performance, so don't miss your last chance to see her perform while honoring ballet’s greatest choreographer over nine nights of carefree, exuberant dance and music!

Get your tickets: https://us.patronbase.com/_ACBDances/Productions/30/Performances

The American Contemporary Ballet is coming to DTLA! Join them at the Bank of America Plaza for Spectacular Balanchine! from June 4 – 20!

The program includes dances from Stars and Stripes, Who Cares?, Western Symphony and Union Jack, all to live band music by composers George Gershwin, John Philip Sousa and Hershey Kay—and features two Colburn Dance alumni: Annette Cherkasov '20 and Quincey Smith '22, who will be retiring from Dance after the final performance, so don't miss your last chance to see her perform while honoring ballet’s greatest choreographer over nine nights of carefree, exuberant dance and music!

Get your tickets today: https://bit.ly/4o6DYLG

A bittersweet ending to a beautiful year for all of our dancers. Lots of love, appreciation and beauty captured backstage by Academy dancer 💞

Due to popular demand for trial classes at Sunday's Open House, we've added additional classes to the schedule to make sure as make sure as many people as possible have the opportunity to see what Colburn has to offer!

If you were placed on a waitlist, or haven't yet registered for classes, please visit our registration page to secure your spot. Don't miss this opportunity to explore everything our Community School and Dance Institute have to offer!

Join us on campus from 10 am–4 pm on May 31 for this fun-filled family event—free with your RSVP at the link. We look forward to seeing you on Sunday!

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Don't miss as our Colburn Dance students of all ages close the year this Saturday, May 30, with a celebratory program featuring new choreography and beloved masterworks.

Get tickets to join us at Cal State LA's Luckman Theatre at 2 and/or 5 pm: https://buff.ly/yVaGImo

Colburn Dance students of all ages close the year next Saturday, May 30, at with a celebratory program featuring new choreography and beloved masterworks. Get your tickets to join us at Cal State LA's Luckman Theatre at 2 and/or 5 pm: https://buff.ly/yVaGImo

Colburn’s talented tap, hip hop, and jazz students show off their skills this Saturday, May 23, in TAPWORKS!

Join us for this vibrant spring showcase, featuring a special teacher appreciation, in Zipper Hall at 2 and 5 pm. Get your tickets: https://bit.ly/4uXRuU9

Faculty appreciation! Tamsin Carlson is currently serving as the Chair of Modern Dance at the Colburn School’s Trudl Zipper Dance Institute. 
Educated in the UK at the Arts Educational School and London Contemporary Dance School, she began her career performing with Edge 4D, the Toutes Femmes dance project, and various independent choreographers. In New York, she danced with Merce Cunningham’s Repertory Understudy Group (RUG) and was a faculty member at the Cunningham School. She also toured internationally with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company for its 25th Anniversary Concert.
Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2000, Tamsin has been a prominent figure in the West Coast dance community. She is a longtime member of the Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble, earning a Lester Horton Award nomination for her performance in The Art of Rudy Perez, and has served as the Associate Artistic Director of Vox Dance Theatre. Globally, she has collaborated on experimental performances with the Germany-based Fabien Prioville Company. A career highlight was performing in the triple city Night of 100 Solos, in celebration of Merce Cunningham’s 100th birthday. 
An esteemed master teacher specializing in Cunningham technique, Tamsin has taught at CalArts, CSU Long Beach, Irvine Valley College, LA Dance Project, and Pieter Studios. Tamsin received her Master of Fine Arts in Dance in May 2025.

The end of the year is fast approaching. Here’s a look back from the in studio camera.

Words of wisdom from coming through her intentional movement and beautiful guidance as a stager. Our Dance Academy students are working hard in the studio with Summer on excerpts from ‘s if you run, i may fall for their Spring dance performances. This experience has taught them so much in such a short time 💞 thank you Kyle Abraham and Summer Vu.