Dance is for everyone
Dance is for everyone. This means YOU!
Performing Arts Workshop (PAW) Studio Company is a vibrant community of dancers. Dance is for everyone - people of all backgrounds, abilities, experience levels, and ages. We welcome first time performers and veterans to join us in celebrating the joy of movement.
A Brief History…
PAW welcomes all dancers
Performing Arts Workshop has a longstanding commitment to providing inclusive daily adult dance classes for adults and students of all levels. Whatever your skill or experience, there is a place for you to dance and learn at PAW.
PAW Studio Company is born
The PAW Studio Company was born August of 2023 out of a need for an already abundant community of beautiful adult dancers to have a performing space to call their own.
Dancers find a home
A first successful choreographic workshop and in studio performance in October 2023 led to more performance and choreographic opportunities for a group of amazing women who love performing together.
Dance is for sharing
Today we seek to share our work in our local community at events such as street fairs or art walks, to serve our community by performing in homes or for underserved populations, and to revel in the art by performing on larger stages in San Diego.
Art. Community. Excellence. Participate.
Step 3 - Perform with Us
We have performance opportunities for adults of all ages, abilities, and genders year-round. Rachel Daoud is currently setting new pieces. No audition is required for dancers who are attending PAW classes at least twice a week and who have registered to join our company and pay the small monthly fee. Please join us for rehearsal Sundays at 11:30am
Step 1 - Take Class
All ages and abilities are invited to PAW’s daily adult dance classes. You don’t have to be a company member. Your first class at Performing Arts Workshop is free!
If you would like to join the company you only need to commit to class twice a week in addition to Sunday rehearsals.
Step 2 - Become a Member
We welcome new dancers year round to join PAW Studio Company, rehearse, and perform with us! If you’re looking for community, art, and training in your life fill out this registration form, join us for at least two PAW classes a week, pay a small monthly fee, and join us for rehearsals Sundays at 11:30am and year round performance opportunities!
Dance is a life-long passion pursued while working, retiring, mothering, learning, creating, growing, home making, and so much more.
Why we dance
Liz
Retired Flight Attendance, Pilates Instructor & Boxer
“to be an inspiration, an example of how to move forward with a dream, or new journey in your life. To inspire both young and old that it is never too soon or too late to take that initiative of beginning…”
Kim
Mother
“In a society that seems to increasingly promote isolation, it is a beautiful thing to vulnerably interact with real humans and be part of something bigger. Yes there is a lot of dancing, but it goes beyond creating art with movement. We are there for each other to commiserate during difficult times as well as celebrate each other‘s successes. There have certainly been tears, but I will say that most of them stemmed from uncontrollable laughter.”
Lakshmi
Engineer, Virologist, Marketing Manager
“Dance is a *performing* art and I feel like you therefore experience it more deeply when you get to perform. Performing takes a lot of skills — storytelling, synchronicity, teamwork, musicality— that you don’t focus on as much when you only dance in class.”
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