Dancer

Choreographer

Born from a little room, a short duet created and performed by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance in December 2022, The Center Will Not Hold is now an expanded and reimagined work that includes a collective of singular performers deeply rooted in one or many of the following street, club, and vernacular dances: house, breaking, hip hop, tap dance, Chicago footwork, Detroit jit, litefeet, Memphis jookin, and body percussion. The work features original music composed by Donovan Dorrance with live percussion by world-class drummer/percussionist, John Angeles.

The Center Will Not Hold

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Tap shoes kick pointe shoes aside in this American version of the holiday classic, The Nutcracker Suite. Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn reimagined Tchaikovsky’s score in 1960, providing today’s preeminent tap company a platform to jazz up the holidays. The colorful fantasy was featured as the nation’s Nutcracker in 2023 with appearances at the Kennedy Center. 

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Dorrance Dance: The Nutcracker Suite

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts

In Nutcracker Suite, explosive tap dance meets your favorite holiday classic. This Nutcracker boogies, slides, struts, and dives into Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s intoxicating interpretation of the Tchaikovsky classic.

Dorrance Dance: Nutcracker Suite

Kennedy Center

Michelle Dorrance is “the most exciting and original choreographer in tap today" (The New York Times).
Dorrance Dance is the award-winning tap dance company founded in 2011 by Artistic Director and MacArthur Genius Michelle Dorrance. Dorrance Dance has an unconquerable respect for the complex history and powerful legacy of this uniquely American art form, while also pushing the form into the future rhythmically, aesthetically, and conceptually. The Boston Globe raves that Dorrance Dance moves the genre to “a new level of execution, innovation, and sophistication."
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the unified company of impressive, precise technicians with vivid personalities and fabulously expressive flair will perform SOUNDspace which explores what is most thrilling, brilliant, and beautiful.

Dorrance Dance

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Award-winning New York City Ballet principal dancer, choreographer, actress, author, curator and designer, Tiler Peck returns with her dazzling love letter to dance, Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends.

Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends

Sadler's Wells Theatre

The Center Will Not Hold is born from “a little room”, a short duet created and performed in December 2022 by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance, who was featured last on the Sadler’s Wells stage in 2023 in the hit show Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends. This expanded and reimagined work now includes a collective of singular performers deeply rooted in one or many of the following street, club, and social dances: house, breaking, hip hop, tap dance, Chicago footwork, Detroit jit, litefeet, Memphis jookin, and body percussion.

Dancer, Choreographer

Michelle Dorrance

Events

Upcoming events

12 - 14 Mar, 2026

Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends · Sadler’s Wells Theatre

17 - 18 Apr, 2026

The Center Will Not Hold A Dorrance Dance Production · Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Past events

9 - 10 May, 2025

The Center Will Not Hold · St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts

Dec 12, 2024

Dorrance Dance: The Nutcracker Suite · The Soraya

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