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By Robert Kunstmann
By Robert Kunstmann
By Robert Kunstmann
WHO WE ARE
Lineage Performing Arts Center is your home for connecting through the arts in Pasadena, CA, and Los Angeles County. We are a nonprofit 501(c)3 that focuses on giving back to our community, engaging audiences, and enriching adult and youth development.
We prioritize these 3 main pillars in our programming:
Original Productions
We produce 7-8 productions each year, performing for an audience of over 2,000 people. These productions are multidisciplinary works, combining dance, music, and storytelling to illuminate a topic. We also do one book musical each year, but with the Lineage spin of underscoring the story with more movement than the script calls for.
Dance for Joy
This is a program unique to Lineage, focused on providing dance, music, and acting classes to people with Parkinson’s, MS, TBI, and stroke. They also appear in many of our Lineage productions. This program is free to all participants and provides creative ways to manage and mitigate the symptoms of neurological conditions. There are 6.5 hours of classes each week, attended by a community of approximately 30 regular participants.
Performing Arts Education
We provide Teaching Artists in Dance to several Title 1 schools in the Pasadena Unified School District, serving over 350 students each year. These are classes that offer dance opportunities in schools that do not have formal programs and each of the programs are growing annually. We also sponsor the John Muir Mystics Dance Team, providing space free of charge and hosting their summer intensive and dance concert annually. We teach classes in our facility to all ages in Musical Theatre, Modern Dance, and Acting, serving over 100 students each year.
UPCOMING EVENTS
RENT
May 1 - June 8
Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning RENT is more than a musical; it’s a movement. A celebration of love, resilience, and the power of community. This unique production will feature the Lineage Dancers, their artistry breathing a new life into the show. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss — so don’t miss your chance to experience this landmark production at Lineage.
Kids and Teens Summer Camps 2025
June 16 - June 20 (Teens)
June 23 - June 27 (Kids)
Is your child interested in becoming an all-around performer? Look no further than our Complete Broadway Experience class!
Taught by Jana Souza, Ericalynn Priolo, & Courtney Simpson, your child will learn to integrate dance, song, and acting into the world of musical theatre. Each class will be tailored to character exploration, dance choreography, and improving musicality. Students will have the opportunity to showcase what they have learned during our end of camp performance on the last day.
Scholarships are available! Please fill out this form; once you are approved, a discount code will be shared with you so you can register for the amount agreed to.
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June Acting Intensive
June 7, 14, 21, 28
About Physical/Vocal Training:
Cynthia Crass is an actor/educator who studied the Suzuki method and Viewpoints with the SITI Company. These actor training techniques emphasize physical and vocal discipline, exploring space and time, and developing an undismissable presence on stage.
About Scene Study:
Marisa Echeverria is a NYC-trained actor and director with a long-standing career in theater, television, and film. More than anything, she loves working with actors of all levels to help them find freedom and purpose in their work. This scene study class will focus on prepared scenes, monologues, and audition technique in order to explore the actor's full expression.
Lineage is a part of TeenTix LA! If you're a teenager, you can come to certain Lineage shows for $5 or less! TeenTix is a FREE pass that gets you into movies, music, theatre, dance, visual art, and more for just $5 in the Los Angeles area! Sign up for FREE at teentix.org.
LINEAGE GIVES BACK
Amy C.
“Parkinson’s can be a very isolating disease. Coming together as a community with others similarly-challenged is inspiring and comforting. When we dance, act, sing and move we help fight the progression of disability in our disease and we see ourselves in each other. Our differences are no longer exceptional in this space, they are comfortingly common.”
Anonymous Patron
“Lineage is always cutting edge, when it comes to "critical issues" shows. Musicals are always creatively staged, choreographed and acted. Your Dance for Joy program is ultra important and creates such a sense of family for those with Parkinson's and other neurological issues. You are all the best!!!!!!!!?”
Evonne R.
"With the freedom that modern dance has to offer [people] of different body types and the opportunities to dance for local causes, the Lineage Dance Company is able to offer the unique opportunity for these [people] to continue growing...while doing what they love to do, dance."
