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caroline
calouche
& co.

Caroline Calouche & Co. and the Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center are a circus arts and dance company and affiliated school founded with the mission to produce and promote dance and circus arts influenced by multi-disciplinary artistic mediums and collaboration.

 

Founded in 2006 by dancer and circus artist Caroline Calouche, Charlotte-based dance company Caroline Calouche & Co. transfixes audiences with blood-pumping performances that combine contemporary dance and circus arts. In 2016 we added our school, Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center, which brings the same mesmerizing joy we feature on stage to adults and young people from age six. We are the only school and professional dance company that brings together contemporary dance and circus arts in the United States. Through our school and professional productions, we now reach over 15,000 students and adults annually.

 

If you’d like to attend our upcoming company performances, purchase tickets here! If you are interested in adult or children’s circus and dance classes—where you or your child will have the opportunity to challenge yourselves in an exhilarating and nurturing environment, take a look at our current class offerings here.


We’re a nonprofit! We are the only organization serving Charlotte and the surrounding region that combines circus arts and contemporary dance. We’re not only committed to making these arts accessible to all communities in our region, but we believe that pushing our own physical and mental boundaries or getting our hearts racing at one of our electrifying performances helps us get in touch with our emotions, our thoughts, and our interdependence as humans. If you agree, please consider donating to our organization.

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility

 

Caroline Calouche & Co. / Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We embrace and encourage all students, artists, staff, and volunteers of age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make us unique.

We at Caroline Calouche & Co. / Charlotte Cirque & Dance Center pledge to: 

  • Strengthen our local community by creating opportunities for people of different backgrounds to have shared experiences through movement and the arts.

  • Use our position to amplify the voices, stories, and histories of marginalized communities through movement

  • Hold ourselves accountable and learn from past missteps.

  • Ensure that all CC&Co spaces (theaters, offices, events) remain respectful, inclusive, and safe

  • Foster conversations on the intersection of performative dance, classes in social and cultural dance disciplines and social change

  • Be active listeners, respect existing knowledge, and avoid assumptions on how to best meet the needs of those in our local and artistic communities.

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