1) The Nate Holden Performing Arts Center will be hosting Dance for Life, a dance festival, fundraising to help fight HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 on Saturday, February 12. Co-hosted by dance legend Debbie Allen, Dance for Life will feature performances by some of the premiere US contemporary and ballet companies, such as Lula Washington Dance Theater, Ballet Red, Lyrik Cruz Dance, Complexions Contemporary, and more. There will be a matinee performance at 2pm and an evening performance at 7pm.
The Dance for Life festival will benefit the AMAAD Institute. The AMAAD institute facilitates personalized individual access to essential and support services, community support, resources and referrals, centered around specialized strength-based management services and leadership development. These programs and services foster safe and supportive healthy environments for people, especially LGBTQ people of color, to live, learn, and develop to their fullest potential. If you wish to help fight against HIV/AIDs and COVID-19, or if you wish to support the performing arts and the AMAAD institute, you may purchase tickets at the following link. Attached is a flyer for the festival, as well as a blurb that contains more information of the dance festival and how you can purchase tickets at a discount.
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Dance Festival to Benefit The AMAAD Institute
Tickets are now available for the inaugural Dance for Life dance festival on Saturday, February 12th. Proceeds from this event will support the Amaad Institute.
A fundraising event to help fight HIV/AIDS and Covid-19, the dance festival will include a matinee performance at 2:00 pm and an evening performance at 7:00 pm. At the Nate Holden Performance Arts Center located at 4718 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016.
Co-hosted by dance legend Debbie Allen, founder of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, Golden Globe winner, five-time Emmy winner, and 2021 Kennedy Center Honors recipient; Dance for Life will feature performances by some of the premiere contemporary and ballet companies in the United States, including:
Lula Washington Dance Theater
BalletRed,
Body Traffic,
Jacob Jones Company
Lyrik Cruz Dance
Luminario Ballet, and
Complexions Contemporary Dance Theater
And others
The event co-chairs are Desmond Richardson, founder of Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company and former principal dancer at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and Phill Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS Institute, former FAM board member, and current amfAR trustee.
To purchase tickets at a discount and to benefit the Amaad Institute, please follow these instructions:
Please use the code 002 to receive a discount on your tickets and ensure a bigger donation to Amaad.
Click on the ticket link below (Get your ticket), and then click on the green Tickets button. On the new page that pops up, titled “Dance for Life”, click on the blue link Enter promo code. Enter the code 002 and click on apply. You will then receive a confirmation: “002 applied
Then choose your tickets by entering the quantity form the drop-down menu for the show time and level you want, and them click checkout and proceed to the payment process.
Get Your Ticket
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dance-for-life-tickets-232427646347