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.

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The Argyros Performing Arts Center

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.”

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

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

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.

Festival Napa Valley

Salesforce Tower

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

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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The Argyros Performing Arts Center

Jun 8, 2023

American Dance Festival

1 - 2 Jun, 2023

La Jolla Music Society - BODYTRAFFIC

May 18, 2023

Festival Napa Valley

Apr 21, 2023

Overture Center for the Arts

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