Everybody Dance LA!
Everybody Dance LA!, 3183 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 196 #K22, Los Angeles, CA 90010
About
Everybody Dance LA! offers dance classes and master classes with USC faculty during a 4-week Summer Session. The program includes opportunities for students to take master classes with USC faculty, meet current students, and attend a showing of the Fall BFA Showcase performance during the Day of Dance. Everybody Dance LA! After-School Program students performed 2025 recital pieces inspired by the movie “Coco” at The Bing Theatre at USC.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: 4-week Summer Session
• Price: classes, offered at little or no cost
Everybody Dance LA! was founded in 1999 by Liza Bercovici and is guided by the creative vision of founding Artistic Director Carol Zee. Liza Bercovici also founded the Gabriella Charter Schools in 2005 and served as Executive Director until her retirement in 2023. Classes are taught by professional teaching artists, and the LA Times has described these Professional Teaching Artists as “some of the best children’s dance instructors in the world.”
Everybody Dance LA! states that it transforms lives and communities through the power of dance and offers high-quality dance education in low-income areas of Los Angeles for youth ages 4–19, instilling high expectations and cultivating the lifelong skills of collaboration, discipline, and self-expression. The organization was created to bring the joy, discipline, and transformative power of dance to low-income communities across Los Angeles, with a mission of high-quality dance education for youth in underserved areas of Los Angeles.
Everybody Dance LA! serves more than 4,000 students ages 4–19 annually in low-income areas of Los Angeles and operates its program in three safe and supportive dance studios in low-income neighborhoods. It teaches hundreds of students in 28 schools in McArthur Park, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, South Los Angeles, and Watts, and launched its Watts Saturday Program in 2023, serving over 90 students across both campuses of sister organization Gabriella Charter School. The organization partnered with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance for its 3rd Annual Day of Dance. Everybody Dance LA! provides more than 7,000 students annually with access to high-quality dance education and offers enrichment programs including a mentor match program, student leadership team, student teacher education program, student office internship, and Ballet Conservatory 1, 2, and 3. Its After-School program focuses on the technical mastery of dance in a safe and supportive environment.
Everybody Dance LA! received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in 2014, presented by Michelle Obama. In student surveys, 94% of students reported improved self-esteem, 96% reported an increased sense of feeling supported by family and community, and 100% of after-school program seniors graduated from high school in June and will attend college in the fall. Benjamin Millepied, Artistic Director of L.A. Dance Project, described Everybody Dance LA! as “the best dance education program I have ever encountered” and noted “this incredible sense of equality and confidence” among children of all different backgrounds, with “no one hiding in a corner, or pushing their way forward” and children who “seemed wonderfully comfortable in their skin.”
Last updated March 23, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: 4-week Summer Session
• Price: classes, offered at little or no cost
Everybody Dance LA! was founded in 1999 by Liza Bercovici and is guided by the creative vision of founding Artistic Director Carol Zee. Liza Bercovici also founded the Gabriella Charter Schools in 2005 and served as Executive Director until her retirement in 2023. Classes are taught by professional teaching artists, and the LA Times has described these Professional Teaching Artists as “some of the best children’s dance instructors in the world.”
Everybody Dance LA! states that it transforms lives and communities through the power of dance and offers high-quality dance education in low-income areas of Los Angeles for youth ages 4–19, instilling high expectations and cultivating the lifelong skills of collaboration, discipline, and self-expression. The organization was created to bring the joy, discipline, and transformative power of dance to low-income communities across Los Angeles, with a mission of high-quality dance education for youth in underserved areas of Los Angeles.
Everybody Dance LA! serves more than 4,000 students ages 4–19 annually in low-income areas of Los Angeles and operates its program in three safe and supportive dance studios in low-income neighborhoods. It teaches hundreds of students in 28 schools in McArthur Park, East Los Angeles, Hollywood, South Los Angeles, and Watts, and launched its Watts Saturday Program in 2023, serving over 90 students across both campuses of sister organization Gabriella Charter School. The organization partnered with the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance for its 3rd Annual Day of Dance. Everybody Dance LA! provides more than 7,000 students annually with access to high-quality dance education and offers enrichment programs including a mentor match program, student leadership team, student teacher education program, student office internship, and Ballet Conservatory 1, 2, and 3. Its After-School program focuses on the technical mastery of dance in a safe and supportive environment.
Everybody Dance LA! received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award in 2014, presented by Michelle Obama. In student surveys, 94% of students reported improved self-esteem, 96% reported an increased sense of feeling supported by family and community, and 100% of after-school program seniors graduated from high school in June and will attend college in the fall. Benjamin Millepied, Artistic Director of L.A. Dance Project, described Everybody Dance LA! as “the best dance education program I have ever encountered” and noted “this incredible sense of equality and confidence” among children of all different backgrounds, with “no one hiding in a corner, or pushing their way forward” and children who “seemed wonderfully comfortable in their skin.”
Last updated March 23, 2026.
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