Step into a captivating world where memories dance to life with BODYTRAFFIC, the innovative Los Angeles-based dance company. From the nostalgic echoes of past experiences to groundbreaking contemporary performances, BODYTRAFFIC invites audiences on a journey that reflects on how our histories shape our present and future. Through its series of upcoming performances, including 'This Reminds Me of You,' 'Ferguson's Center Arts for All Community Concert Series,' and others, BODYTRAFFIC promises an enchanting exploration of movement, memory, and emotion. Prepare to be moved by the stories told through dance, where every step forward is anchored in the past.

Reimagining the Past: BODYTRAFFIC’s Dance Journey Through Nostalgia and Innovation

The BODYTRAFFIC dance company is making waves across the United States with a series of captivating performances that delve into eclectic styles and diverse narratives. From community concerts to innovative creations by emerging choreographers, BODYTRAFFIC's events are designed to inspire, educate, and create positive change. These performances are not only celebrations of contemporary dance but also champions of cultural diversity and artistic expression.

Dancing Through Diversity: BODYTRAFFIC's Vibrant Community Connections

In 2025, BODYTRAFFIC, a pioneering Los Angeles-based dance company, is set to captivate audiences across the United States with a series of performances and workshops that showcase a vibrant array of styles and stories. From the dynamic rhythms of house music to the soulful reflections of Cuban heritage, BODYTRAFFIC's lineup promises to engage and inspire. Under the artistic direction of Tina Finkelman Berkett, the company's mission is not only to entertain but also to educate and foster a deeper appreciation for contemporary dance.

Exploring Dance Diversity with BODYTRAFFIC: A Journey of Cultural Expression and Innovation

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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Presents

Aspen District Theater

Lensic Performing Arts Center

After 20 extraordinary years, BODYTRAFFIC will take its final bow at the close of this landmark season - marking your chance to experience one of the company’s final performances. What began as a bold dream has grown into an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance company known for its vibrant artistry and powerful connection with audiences.

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California Polytechnic State University

BODYTRAFFIC at The Argyros

Argyros Performing Arts Center

Jordyn Santiago’s world premiere explores the deeply personal and yet universal journey from self-doubt and isolation to joy and self-love. Combining contemporary ballet, social dance, and movement inspired by house culture, this work is a vibrant, affirming love letter to femininity, queerness, and community. An original score combines high-energy house music with a new composition by New York City musician/composer Rafa.

Joan Rodriguez’s newest work is his second choreographic creation for BODYTRAFFIC, a dynamic blend of theatricality, storytelling, and kinetic precision. Called “a whirlwind of front-of-curtain performance pizzazz and back-of-curtain relationships” by Brian Fretté of Los Angeles Dance Chronicle, this world premiere highlights the contrast between the performative “onstage” and the vulnerable “backstage.” Blending Afro-Cuban rhythms, cinematic references, and contemporary movement languages, Rodriguez invites reflection on free will, rebellion, and the interconnectedness of human lives.

This Feeling Reminds Me of You - June 5 @ 7PM

Avalon Hollywood

Ma Maison

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Led by Artistic Director Tina Finkelman Berkett, BODYTRAFFIC has conquered the contemporary dance world with its stunning performers, technical mastery, and commitment to the most challenging repertoire. Bursting with cutting-edge “vivid theatricality,” BODYTRAFFIC takes the stage with compelling works that embody the company’s energy, sophistication, and sheer joy in dancing.

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McCallum Theatre

BODYTRAFFIC company dancer Joan Rodriguez is crafting his second work for the company, delving into his Cuban roots and their profound influence on his identity. Joan's previous creation, Bloquea’o, which debuted during BODYTRAFFIC’s 23/24 season, garnered widespread critical acclaim.

This Place Reminds Me of You

BODYTRAFFIC studios

Since its founding in Los Angeles in 2007, BODYTRAFFIC has been a powerful force in contemporary dance. This internationally renowned dance company is celebrated for its technical prowess and versatility, with artists expertly mastering a repertoire that spans ballet, contemporary, modern, Afro-Cuban, and hip hop genres. Known for its stunning performers and diverse technical mastery, BODYTRAFFIC is committed to a dynamic repertoire that captivates both dance lovers and newcomers alike. 

Wortham Center for the Performing Arts

BT Creates

Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz

This program showcases BODYTRAFFIC’s versatility with four works that celebrate bold style, storytelling, and movement. Flyland by David Middendorp is a heart-tugging duet blending animation, projection, and choreography to stunning effect. Cayetano Soto’s Schachmatt (Checkmate!) turns a giant chess board into a playground, drawing inspiration from Pedro Almodóvar and Bob Fosse. Jordyn Santiago’s Coalescence, vibrant, affirming love letter to femininity, queerness, and community. Plus, Secret Goodbye, a newly announced world premiere by BODYTRAFFIC Creative Partner Trey McIntyre for four dancers set to the music of Sam Cooke.

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Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

BODYTRAFFIC’s ‘This Reminds Me of You’ dives into the power of memories sparked by unexpected reminders—whether it’s a painting, song, or sensation, the associations we make with the world around us forge lasting connections that provoke deep feelings of nostalgia. These glimpses of the past don’t simply fade away; they shape our future and forge lasting connections between us. 

This Song Reminds Me of You

The L.A. season kicks off with a dynamic mixed repertory program packed with high-energy music and captivating choreography. The program features Trey McIntyre’s thrilling Blue Until June, set to the soulful sounds of Etta James, and Matthew Neenan’s A Million Voices, performed to music by the inimitable Peggy Lee. The evening concludes with Snap!, a burst of electrifying energy choreographed by L.A.’s own Micaela Taylor, set to the grooves of James Brown.

Snap!

Bank of America Performing Arts Center

Memories often resurface through the images and moments that define our lives, and This Picture Reminds Me of You explores how these visual reminders—whether a photograph, painting, or fleeting image—stir deep feelings of nostalgia. These glimpses of the past don't just remain behind us; they shape our future and connect us to one another in profound ways. This evening of dance invites the audience to reflect on the power of memory and its role in our personal journeys.

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Audrey Irmas Pavilion

BODYTRAFFIC company dancer, Jordyn Santiago will debut her first choreographic creation for the company. Set to the vibrant beats of house music, this dynamic performance will take you on an emotional journey through dance, leaving you uplifted and filled with joy.

This Feeling Reminds Me of You

With a compelling style that reflects the “invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe) of its Los Angeles home, BODYTRAFFIC returns to The Joyce with a program that dives into the power of memory sparked by unexpected reminders. Whether it’s a painting, song, or sensation, the associations we make with the world around us forge lasting connections that provoke deep feelings of nostalgia. With works by Juel D. Lane, Trey McIntyre, and Matthew Neenan, This Reminds Me of You invites audiences to reflect on the profound impact of memory and celebrate how our past shapes our journey forward.

The Joyce Theater

Skirball Cultural Center

Forward-thinking Los Angeles dance company BODYTRAFFIC aims to be a home for an eclectic range of styles and perspectives that tell vital stories. Artistic Director Tina Finkelman Berkett has held the company fast to its mission of championing contemporary dance, educating audiences, and inciting positive change. Its goal is simple: get the world moving.

BODYTRAFFIC inspires and uplifts its community and beyond through its education and outreach programs. Focusing on supporting the whole dancer, it provides programs ranging from youth-focused intensive training and master classes to professional development for established artists that encourage their growth by nurturing their unique identities. Every year, it mentors more than 500 students from diverse backgrounds.

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Modlin Center for the Arts

Ferguson's Center Arts for All Community Concert Series

Ferguson Center for the Arts

Step into a world where memories come alive. BODYTRAFFIC" class="css-u850">BODYTRAFFIC invites you to explore the powerful force of nostalgia, where the sights, sounds, and emotions of the past ignite hope for the future. This season celebrates reflection through dance, music, and storytelling, showing how our past shapes our journey forward.

Discover the magic of nostalgia with BODYTRAFFIC, where every look back moves us forward and connects us to each other.

This Reminds Me of You

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Washington Center Main Stage

BODYTRAFFIC delivers performances that inspire audiences around the globe to simply love dance. The Company holds fast to its mission of championing contemporary dance, educating audiences, and inciting positive change. Its goal is simple: get the world moving!

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Gonzaga University

BODYTRAFFIC has conquered the contemporary dance world with its stunning performers, technical mastery, and commitment to the most challenging repertoire. In its White Bird debut, BODYTRAFFIC exudes energy, sophistication, and sheer joy in dancing. This program of mixed repertory by internationally renowned choreographers, including Alejandro Cerrudo and BODYTRAFFIC Artist in Residence Micaela Taylor, promises to be an entertaining start to our 27th season.

White Bird's Dance Series

Portland'5 Centers for the Arts

Direct from Los Angeles, revel in BODYTRAFFIC’s stunning performers, technical mastery, and commitment to the most innovative repertoire created by the most in demand choreographers. Bursting with “vivid theatricality,” this cutting-edge dance company takes the stage with compelling works that embody the energy, sophistication, and sheer joy in dancing.

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The Wallis, known as a champion of local dance companies, brings LA-based BODYTRAFFIC, led by Tina Finkelman Berkett, back to the Bram Goldsmith Theater in October with a program that delivers on the company’s vivid theatricality and sophisticated style. BODYTRAFFIC has earned international acclaim and conquered the contemporary dance world with its stunning performers, technical mastery, and compelling repertoire that embodies the company’s sheer joy of dancing. 

BODYTRAFFIC is an international, renowned forward-thinking dance company proudly hailing from Los Angeles. Since its founding in 2007 by Artistic Director Tina Finkelman Berkett, the Company has held steady to its mission to champion contemporary dance, educate audiences, present new voices, question the future, and incite positive change. Its goal is simple: get the world moving.

A forward-thinking Company, BODYTRAFFIC is not one driven by a single choreographic voice. It’s an incubator for new voices and continues to move the needle of what dance can and cannot be – elevating it beyond an art form to a way of thinking, being, and doing.

Because, after all, without movement, nothing changes.

The Argyros Performing Arts Center

BODYTRAFFIC uses the creative spirit of its Los Angeles home as a backdrop for delivering performances that inspire audiences around the globe to simply love dance. The company will present an exploration of identity through dance, showing Love.Lost.Fly by Micaela Taylor, Notes on Fall, a 2021 ADF-commissioned work by Brian Brooks, The One to Stay With by Baye & Asa, and PACOPEPEPLUTO by Alejandro Cerrudo.

American Dance Festival

Duke University

Based in Los Angeles, Bodytraffic uses the creative spirit of the city it calls home to fulfill its mission of delivering performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance. Since its inception in 2007, the company has held its place at the forefront of the concert dance world with a compelling style that “suggests invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe). Widely acclaimed for its “peerless dancers” who “can do it all from hip-hop to ballet” (LA Dance Chronicle), the company’s repertoire includes the works of renowned contemporary choreographers like Kyle Abraham, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Victor Quijada, Arthur Pita, Fernando Magadan, and Micaela Taylor. This combination of superb dancers and accomplished choreographers led the Los Angeles Times to describe BODYTRAFFIC as “one of the most talked about companies—not just in LA, but nationwide”.

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

Based in Los Angeles, BODYTRAFFIC uses the creative spirit of the city it calls home to fulfill its mission of delivering performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance. Since its inception in 2007, the company has held its place at the forefront of the concert dance world with a compelling style that “suggests invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe). Widely acclaimed for its “peerless dancers” who “can do it all from hip-hop to ballet” (LA Dance Chronicle), the company’s repertoire includes the works of renowned contemporary choreographers like Kyle Abraham, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Victor Quijada, Arthur Pita, Fernando Magadan, and Micaela Taylor. This combination of superb dancers and accomplished choreographers led the Los Angeles Times to describe BODYTRAFFIC as “one of the most talked about companies—not just in LA, but nationwide.”

The company’s trajectory from LA to nationwide recognition is notable in its 2016 Hollywood Bowl debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and in its current company-in-residence status at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Beyond LA, the company has captured the attention of major presenters at prestigious venues throughout the U.S. in such places as New York, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Texas, and Arizona, to name a few. And much has happened on the international scene. During the 2017–18 season, BODYTRAFFIC celebrated its 10th anniversary with an extensive tour to more than 20 cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg for the CONTEXT Diana Vishneva Festival, and The Hague for The Holland Dance Festival.

One of the company’s greatest accomplishments occurred in 2015 when the Obama administration selected it to be United States cultural ambassadors to Israel and Jordan through DanceMotion USA, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. State Department that sought to engage international audiences through educational opportunities, cultural exchange, and performance. BODYTRAFFIC also served as cultural ambassadors of the United States in South Korea (2016), Algeria (2017–18), and Indonesia (2018).

La Jolla Music Society - BODYTRAFFIC

The Los Angeles-based modern dance group BODYTRAFFIC brings its unique style “that suggests invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe) to the Bay Area in a collaborative performance with cellist Sophia Bacelar on the ‘Ohana Floor of Salesforce Tower, atop the San Francisco company’s iconic headquarters. Take in 360 degree views of the Bay’s world famous bridges from an unparalleled vantage point while enjoying this unique site specific performance.

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Salesforce Tower

The Los Angeles-based modern dance group BODYTRAFFIC brings its unique style “that suggests invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe) to the Bay Area in a collaborative performance with cellist Sophia Bacelar on the 'Ohana Floor of Salesforce Tower, atop the San Francisco company’s iconic headquarters. Take in 360 degree views of the Bay's world famous bridges from an unparalleled vantage point while enjoying this unique site specific performance.

With “unfailingly deft and endearing dancers” (Los Angeles Times), BODYTRAFFIC continues to make waves from coast to coast with its universal appeal to new audience members and dance lovers alike. The company is deeply committed to producing acclaimed works by distinctive choreographic voices, all while surging to the forefront of the contemporary dance world. Bursting with cutting-edge “vivid theatricality”, BODYTRAFFIC takes the stage with compelling works that embody the company’s energy, sophistication and sheer joy in dancing.

Overture Center for the Arts

BODYTRAFFIC is a world-class contemporary dance company, known internationally for its Los Angeles-grown, contagious vivacity. Bursting with cutting-edge “vivid theatricality,” the company has surged to the forefront of the contemporary dance world and continues to make waves from coast to coast with its universal appeal to new audience members and dance lovers alike. BODYTRAFFIC is an absolutely joyous and oh-so-entertaining evening of dance.

Gallo Center for the Arts

BODYTRAFFIC from Los Angeles delivers performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance through a compelling style that “suggests invention, attitude, and urban edge” (Boston Globe) by renowned contemporary choreographers. In 2015, the Obama administration selected BODYTRAFFIC to be U.S. cultural ambassadors to the Middle East through Dance Motion USA, followed by countries in North Africa and Asia. For the program in Victoria, the company will share repertoire by internationally acclaimed artists.

Dance Victoria

Royal Theatre

BODYTRAFFIC uses the creative spirit of its Los Angeles home to fulfill its mission of delivering performances that inspire audiences simply to love dance. Since its inception in 2007, the company has held its place at the forefront of the concert dance world with a compelling style that “suggests invention, attitude, and urban edge” (The Boston Globe). Widely acclaimed for its “peerless dancers” who “can do it all from hip-hop to ballet” (LA Dance Chronicle), the company is composed of artists who received their training at some of the finest schools throughout the world, and its smashing repertory includes the works of renowned contemporary choreographers like Kyle Abraham, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Victor Quijada, Arthur Pita, Fernando Magadan, and Micaela Taylor. This combination of superb dancers and accomplished choreographers led the Los Angeles Times to describe BODYTRAFFIC as “one of the most talked about companies—not just in LA, but nationwide.”
The company’s trajectory from Los Angeles to nationwide recognition is notable in its 2016 Hollywood Bowl debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and in its current company-in-residence status at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Beyond Los Angeles, the company has captured the attention of major presenters at prestigious venues throughout the United States. During the 2017–18 season, BODYTRAFFIC celebrated its 10th anniversary with an extensive tour to more than 20 international cities, including Moscow and St. Petersburg for the CONTEXT Diana Vishneva Festival and The Hague for The Holland Dance Festival.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

Led by Artistic Director Tina Finkelman Berkett, BODYTRAFFIC has conquered the contemporary dance world with its stunning performers, technical mastery, and commitment to the most challenging repertoire. The acclaimed company returns to The Wallis with an eclectic program that includes a world premiere by Micaela Taylor, BODYTRAFFIC’s first-ever Artist-in-Residence; the West Coast premiere of Baye & Asa’s rhythmic and bold The One to Stay With; and an encore performance of Matthew Neenan’s whimsical and joyous A Million Voices, inspired by the great music of Peggy Lee. Bursting with cutting-edge “vivid theatricality,” BODYTRAFFIC takes the stage with compelling works that embody the company’s energy, sophistication, and sheer joy in dancing.

BODYTRAFFIC’s August 12 performance will start at 7:30 pm and will feature performances titled “A Million Voices”, which is inspired and will be accompanied by the music of Peggy Lee, and “Pacopepepluto”, which will feature three solo performances set to the music of Dean Martin, the “King of Cool”. BODYTRAFFIC’s dancers come from around the world and now call Los Angeles home, founded in 2007 by Artistic Director, Tina Finkelman Berkett and Lillian Barbeito, they have been named one of the most talked about companies nationwide by the Los Angeles Times. BODYTRAFFIC has also been notably named as a cultural ambassador of the United States to Israel, Jordan, South Korea, Algeria and Indonesia.

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