The Music Center: Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles

12/05/2025

The Music Center and our Board of Directors are deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Frank Gehry. 🤍A groundbreaking architect who reimagined the field, Frank’s profound and courageous artistic vision resulted in the creation of one of L.A.’s most iconic buildings: Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The work Frank did in partnership with the County of Los Angeles and The Music Center in the development of this global landmark not only contributed significantly to all of Los Angeles, but also revitalized Grand Avenue as the center for arts and culture in Downtown. Frank envisioned Walt Disney Concert Hall as a ‘living room for the city.’ This marvelous architectural wonder today is home to the LA Phil, the Los Angeles Master Chorale and numerous community and cultural events.


The Music Center is honored and proud to have had Frank as both a partner and a friend. His support for the arts will live on as an integral part of his legacy, and his incredible buildings will serve as a reminder that we should dream—and create—boldly. ✨

12/04/2025

Come connect and be inspired at our next on Jan. 9! 🩵✨ As we mark one year since the Los Angeles wildfires, we invite you to a FREE immersive event centered on storytelling, healing and the strength of our community. 💪

🎥📖Featuring work from ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media program under Nonny de la Peña, this gathering explores how immersive media can help us hold memories, process loss and imagine renewal. 🪴

🎞️ Wander through VR stories, AR moments and interactive spaces shaped by the voices of Angelenos rebuilding together. ❤️‍🩹

RSVP at https://bit.ly/4rJ2Fzo
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This event is made possible through a partnership with Arizona State University and a grant from We Are Agog with additional support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

12/02/2025

This , we’re celebrating the power of the arts to connect, inspire and uplift Los Angeles. ✨💜 By donating today, you help The Music Center remain a vibrant place where everyone can find inspiration, build community and experience the magic of live performance. 🎭🩰

Your gift, of any size, helps bring world-class performances, meaningful arts education, free community programs, innovative partnerships with artists and so much more to the communities across LA County. 👏🎶 The Music Center is your performing arts center, join us in keeping the arts thriving for everyone.

Make your Giving Tuesday gift today and be part of something truly inspiring at musiccenter.org/donations/make-a-gift-today/

12/01/2025

This use code ENCORE to save 30% on tickets to see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater New York City Ballet and the Super Stars of Opéra national de Paris here in next year! 🩰✨ Three of the world’s most renowned dance companies are coming to in 2026, and you’re not going to want to miss out on these unforgettable performances!

Sale ends tonight at midnight! 👏⏰

11/28/2025

Your final has arrived… and we saved something extra special for last! 🎁✨ Swipe to uncover one more can’t-miss deal on our 25/26 DANCE Season! 🩰🎉

Treat yourself to world-class dance at a world-class price this weekend ONLY! 🛍️Shop now at musiccenter.org/blackfriday

11/28/2025

You've got 2 ways to give back at this year's County of Los Angeles Tree Lighting Ceremony! ❤️🎄'Tis the season to celebrate, share joy and make a difference in our community!

🎨 Music Changing Lives is collecting art supplies for local youth affected by the Eaton Fire, and, donating enters you to win a $100 gift certificate to the LA2050 Holiday Impact Market!

❄️ KOST 103.5 is spreading holiday cheer as part of their Season of Giving Tour, collecting gently used or new winter essentials for families served by Union Rescue Mission.

Bring your donation items to on Monday evening and start the season with some kindness.✨

11/27/2025

✨Artist Spotlight✨ Each month, we’ll be highlighting the incredible artists from our Performing Artists in Schools & Neighborhoods program who bring the traditions, stories and music of our diverse communities to life. 👏💖

Looking back on October, we're starting with eight groups who perform every month for students and communities across County, sharing Hispanic + Latinx culture:

🥁Ballet Folclorico do Brasil
📖 Boxtales Theatre Company
🪕 Los Cambalache
💃🏾 INCA the Peruvian Ensemble
🪇 Mariachi Los Camperos
🪭Pacifico Dance Company
🪈Changui Majadero
👏 Sakai Flamenco

🎭🎶Follow along each month as we continue to lift up our artists and celebrate the vibrant cultures that make Los Angeles shine through this incredible program. 🎨✨

11/26/2025

11/25/2025

Meet the Holiday Impact Marketplace vendors! 🎁🎄This year, the County of Los Angeles Tree Lighting Ceremony will host – for the first time – the LA2050 Holiday Impact Marketplace. 💖✨ Each year, LA2050, an initiative of the Goldhirsh Foundation, curates its Social Impact Gift Guide featuring products and experiences from local nonprofits, sustainable makers and small businesses. 🛍️

Next Monday, the gift guide will come to life with some of L.A.’s favorite impact-driven businesses, including:

🍪Homeboy Industries & Bakery
📚 LA-libreria
🧵Neococo Collective
🕯️MADE by DWC
🌀 People's Pottery Project
🌼 Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants

Explore unique holiday gifts, treats and crafts from remarkable local artisans and makers, including several L.A. businesses impacted by the wildfires, and celebrate the season while supporting the community.

11/25/2025

Journey into a universe of moving memory. 🌌✨ Come check out here at open through December 14th!

This FREE immersive experience created by Ethiopian American artist Kidus Hailesilassie and Ghanaian choreographer Efua Sutherland reimagines centuries of Pan-African knowledge through VR, movement and shared listening. 🔭💫

Wander through textile portals, sink into meditative soundscapes and explore a digital realm shaped by ancestral rhythms and future visions. This is storytelling you don’t just witness, you feel. 🪘💃🏾

On view in the Digital Arts Space on 📍More info and RSVP at musiccenter.org/blackplanetarium
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11/23/2025

🩰✨Use code BONJOUR to save 30% on tickets to see the Superstars of Opéra national de Paris here in 2026!

⏰ 2 days left! Pick your seats and prepare for takeoff at musiccenter.org/blackfriday

11/22/2025

Holiday magic is heading your way, LA! 🎁🌟 Join us and PBS SoCal for a joyful night of family-friendly performances celebrating the diverse traditions of at the 66th Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration! 🎤💃🎶 You won’t want to miss it!

11/21/2025

Drumroll please! 🥁✨Are you ready to collect another ? Today's deal est très magnifique! 🩰 Swipe to see which world-class company is getting the spotlight (and the savings!) 🌟 Every Friday in November = big surprises + bigger discounts on our 25/26 DANCE Season! 🎉

Don't miss out! Shop the sale at musiccenter.org/blackfriday

11/21/2025

We’re looking back at an inspiring night at last week! 👏💫 Thank you to everyone who joined us and to the brilliant artists who transformed our space with storytelling, rhythm and boundary-pushing creativity. 💯 You reminded us that movement isn’t just something we watch, it’s something that connects us all! 💜

🎉A huge shoutout to:
🌀 Aya Umoh
🌌 Ari Melenciano
🤲 Rashaad Newsome
🌍 Janice Duncan
🔭 Kidus Hailesilassie
Thank you for sharing your vision with 📍

Weren’t able to join us? You can still catch Black Planetarium here at through December 14 🌌✨
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This event was made possible by a grant from We Are Agog: The Immersive Media Institute, with additional support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

11/17/2025

🎒Schools across Los Angeles Unified School District have a powerful opportunity to grow their arts programs with Proposition 28 funding and is here to help make it count!💡🎨

Through our Teach Through the Arts! program, educators of all grade levels will be inspired to lead joyful, meaningful arts experiences right in their classrooms. 🌟 Our hybrid model blends in-person and online learning, supporting teachers with professional development and coaching that integrate arts strategies into the English Language Arts content they already teach.

With our teaching artists by your side, teachers can bring together Theatre Arts + ELA in ways that align seamlessly with Common Core and CA Arts Standards. Let’s ignite creativity in every classroom. 🎨📚 Learn more and get in touch at https://bit.ly/3JMXEUS

11/16/2025

Our ? ✨🩰 Saving you 30% on tickets to see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater here in with our sale! 🤍🙌

Through tomorrow ONLY! ⏰ Use code SOULFUL to save now!

11/15/2025

🎄Experience the holiday magic at the County of Los Angeles Tree Lighting Ceremony! ✨Join us on Monday, December 1st from 5-8 PM on for a FREE evening of live performances, holiday market, festive treats and a dazzling tree lighting ceremony! 🎅🏻🎊

🎶Delight in live musical performances by The Blackberry Project, 🎨join Armory Center for the Arts for a hands-on holiday art activity, 🛍️browse the LA2050 Holiday Impact Market and☕️enjoy cup of free hot cocoa as you marvel at snow flurries!❄️

☃️Bring items for our 2 holiday donation drives to help spread even more joy. ❤️Donate art supplies🎨 with Music Changing Lives or 🧥 winter essentials with KOST 103.5! 🎁 RSVP at the 🔗in our bio.
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11/14/2025

Who's inside this week's ? ✨Swipe to find out! 🎉 Every Friday in November, we're making so you can save big on our 25/26 DANCE Season! 🩰👏 This week's deal is sure to be a revelation! 🙌🏿🕊️Save now at musiccenter.org/black-friday

11/13/2025

📹 a special message from ✨ one of our incredible artists for tomorrow night’s ! 🎶 🌊 Join us as we journey to 5054 in her piece “Rhythmic Wave” and so much more as art, technology and imagination collide here at for one night only!📍🌙

🕙 6-9 PM
🌆 135 N. Grand Ave.
🥂 Free with RSVP
🔗 in our bio!

11/13/2025

Once a dancer, always a dancer! 🩰✨ On , we’re celebrating the lifelong impact of an art form that inspires grace, discipline and creativity, from the barre to the stage and beyond.

Here’s our very own President & CEO, Rachel S. Moore, in her ballerina days with American Ballet Theatre, a reminder that the love of dance can lead you anywhere! 💫

11/11/2025

👋 Meet the artists for 🫆✨ who will be exploring how movement in its’ different forms can connect us across generations and culture!

🌍 Aya Umoh is an artist, creative director and founder who creates immersive experiences that alchemize storytelling, movement and co-creation. She won the 2025 MIT Reality Hack XR Grand Prize and Black Public Media’s Immersive Pitch. Her work merges time, Rhythmic Wave travel, dance and living memory.

🌙 Ari Melenciano is an artist and researcher examining cultural behavior as a cybernetic system. She has taught at NYU, Parsons, the Pratt Institute, Rutgers; and exhibited at MoMA, Venice Biennale, Dubai's Museum of the Future and Sundance. She founded Afrotectopia, a social institution cultivating and expanding Black imagination at the intersections of art, design and technology.

🎬 Rashaad Newsome is an award-winning filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and innovator whose work defies conventional boundaries, blending film, performance, technology and community organizing.

🎧 Janice Duncan is an Academy Award®–nominated filmmaker, director, narrator and creative producer whose work spans film, storytelling and interdisciplinary art, exploring themes of time and transformation.

🔭 Kidus Hailesilassie is an Ethiopian American spatial artist and futurist whose work bridges film, installation and media art. Drawing on his architectural background, he explores spatial improvisation deeply rooted in Afro-diasporic and Black expressive modalities with themes of collective memory and speculative futures.

Don’t miss your chance to see their work here at THIS Friday! 👏 Free with RSVP at musiccenter.org/innovationsocial

11/10/2025

✨ For the first time ever, The Royal Ballet School is coming to the U.S. and it’s landing right here at The Music Center in Los Angeles! ✈️

This world-renowned school, known for shaping some of ballet’s brightest stars, will host its exclusive U.S. Intensive Course here at during summer 2026, giving young dancers ages 10–19 a once-in-a-lifetime chance to train with the school’s esteemed artistic faculty. 🩰💫

From classical technique and pointe work to contemporary dance and creative exploration, this is ballet history in the making: and it’s happening here in L.A. ☀️📍

Applications are open now through January 9, 2026, at https://bit.ly/4hXQeLC

11/09/2025

NEXT week, we will gather here at for a speakeasy-style evening designed to spark your imagination!🥂✨ This month's theme is "Connection Through Movement", and we've got 5 multidisciplinary experiences for you to explore throughout the night! 🌍📖

💃🏿Step into a reimagined Nigeria of the future with Aya Umoh, witness Ari Melenciano explore how memory lives in our bodies🌙, watch Rashaad Newsome map Black cultural expression through dance and sign language in his film 🤲, listen in on a live sound installation honoring lineage with Janice Duncan 🎧 and be transported through a collective remembrance with Kidus Hailesilassie. 🌌🔭!

🎟️👏We'll see you there! RSVP: musiccenter.org/innovationsocial
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This event is made possible by a grant from We Are Agog: The Immersive Media Institute, with additional support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

11/08/2025

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Limited time only!⏰ Shop the sale now at
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11/07/2025

This year, we're making every Friday in November so you can save big on ! 🎉✨ Each week we'll drop discounts on a different show in our 25/26 DANCE Season so you can get tickets to world-renowned dance companies in next year for less! 🩰👏 Swipe to see who's in this week's and shop the sale NOW at: http://musiccenter.org/blackfriday