Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts

09/06/2026

Keshet is closed Monday, September 7, and there will be no classes!

09/01/2026

Applications are open!

Come explore, move, and create with Keshet! Keshet’s 2027 Makers Space Experience applications open from NOW through October 1, 2026! What is the Makers Space Experience? (MSE)

The MSE is a 10-day cohort-based residency program in which choreographers/dancemakers have access to rehearsal space, peer movement classes, arts business workshops, and the New Mexico skies as they explore their art form and their projects at whatever stage they might be – newly germinating ideas, final development of full productions, and/or anything in between.

Join us! Learn more here: https://loom.ly/GWt9ePU

08/29/2026

Keshet’s 2026 fall session of classes runs through December 5! We offer classes for youth and adults in Contemporary, Ballet, Mixed Ability/Adaptive Dance, and more!

08/28/2026

Fall may be around the corner but we're still basking in the summer sun of Greece!

1. Earlier this summer, our Artistic Director, , took a journey to partake in an inspiring artistic retreat with creatives from around the world with one of Keshet’s earliest era's of company dancers and long-time collaborator,
2.On the 9 hour ferry from Athens to to the magical island of Patmos
3. Ever wonder “who lives in these beautiful buildings on a Greek isle hill?" Top floor 3rd from the right is where Shira and Amy were living! 52 incredible artists from all around the world occupied the rest of the rooms - music poetry and art making everywhere at all times!
4. A view from the room with morning coffee
5. Leaving the room on the backside of our home was the hillside with the cutest musical goats you’ve ever met and a goat herder we never met but often heard signing to his goats
6-9. Beautifully, no phones or recording devices were allowed during the 10 days of artistic explorations. But after hours meaningful connections were captured with the inspiring artists and visionary creators - thank you Ani DiFranco, Neko Case, , and for the gifts of vulnerability, laughter, authenticity, and challenging questions!
10. On the way out of town, the theater of Dionysus and a lucky happenstance to catch even more artistry with the Estonian Chamber Orchestra...whaaat??
11. Artistic inspiration and community connection was felt globally and brought back locally. Can’t wait to see what new creations and collaborations are born from this journey. Thank you for providing this artistic opportunity for our Founder and Artistic Director, Shira Greenberg!

08/27/2026

Keshet has had the honor of supporting artist Naomi Natale for "PASSAGE," which invites visitors into an intimate exploration of transition, memory, and the spaces we move through – both physically and emotionally.

Join Naomi for special Artist Talk on Saturday August 29 from 11:00am-1:00pm at the Albuquerque Museum Auditorium!

"PASSAGE" will be on view from August 31 – October 2, 2026 at Gallery One in City Hall!

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08/25/2026

Come explore, move, and create with Keshet! Keshet’s 2027 Makers Space Experience applications open from September 1 through October 1, 2026! What is the Makers Space Experience? (MSE)

The MSE is a 10-day cohort-based residency program in which choreographers/dancemakers have access to rehearsal space, peer movement classes, arts business workshops, and the New Mexico skies as they explore their art form and their projects at whatever stage they might be – newly germinating ideas, final development of full productions, and/or anything in between.

Join us! Learn more here: https://loom.ly/GWt9ePU

08/13/2026

Keshet's fall session of classes starts next Monday, August 17 and runs through Saturday, December 5!
Classes in Contemporary, Ballet, Mixed Ability/Adaptive Dance, and more! All ages, all levels, and all abilities!
Register here! https://loom.ly/FcQmBgE

08/05/2026

Don't forget! Keshet is holding open auditions for our next Company and community show "MONARCH" August 8, 2026!

August 8 | Ages 10-16 | 10:00-11:15am
August 8 | Ages 17+ | 12:00-1:15pm

"MONARCH" uses the life cycle of a monarch butterfly to explore themes of immigration, loss, transformation, longing, the beauty of life, separation, and ultimately hope. "MONARCH" asks us to reflect on the balance of the natural world and the anxiety and fear in today’s political climate. Where is the hope? Who do we turn to? How do we protect the most vulnerable in our community?

Learn more and sign up for auditions here: https://loom.ly/HeZYDLc
Photography by François Achan

Keshet Dance Company & Center for the Arts presents: MONARCH, the newest full-length production from Keshet. Featuring a cast of Keshet Company Dancers, Keshet Pre-Professional Students, and community dancers ages …

07/31/2026

Don't forget! Keshet is holding open auditions for our next Company and community show "MONARCH" August 8, 2026!

"MONARCH" is a full-length dance production featuring a cast of Keshet community members: Keshet Dance Company professional dancers, KP3 (Keshet Pre-Professional) Students, adult dancers, young dancers ages 10+, and all levels and abilities who want to dance with us!

August 8 | Ages 10-16 | 10:00-11:15am
August 8 | Ages 17+ | 12:00-1:15pm

"MONARCH" uses the life cycle of a monarch butterfly to explore themes of immigration, loss, transformation, longing, the beauty of life, separation, and ultimately hope. "MONARCH" asks us to reflect on the balance of the natural world and the anxiety and fear in today’s political climate. Where is the hope? Who do we turn to? How do we protect the most vulnerable in our community?

Learn more and sign up for auditions here: https://loom.ly/HeZYDLc
Photography by François Achan

07/28/2026

It is with deep love, great sadness, and joy-filled memories that we share the news of the passing of Randy Cooper. As one of Keshet's earliest champions, Randy and his family expanded our sense of home for the Keshet community figuratively and literally, welcoming all of the artists of the early years of Keshet into the Cooper household as honorary extended family members, sharing laughter, love, thanksgiving dinners, and so much more. His yellow-ruler suspenders could be seen from afar, and you knew that kindness was near. His unique and world-renowned shadow sculptures were generously created and gifted to so many dancers who graced the Keshet stages. As Keshet was just being created and the vision being shared in the early years, many thought the dream was too big, scoffing at the grand ideas and giving condensing "advice" to our founder and artistic director. But not Randy, he fully believed in artists as changemakers, and said to the 22-year Shira who was explaining the vision of Keshet Dance Company and Keshet Center for the Arts that he would help in any way he could and he offered at that time to donate a welcome sculpture for the entry of the Center for the Arts as soon as we were able to make the dream come true (as he fully believed it would). Thus began his role as a volunteer, eventual board member, board president, and indeed the creator of the entry sculpture at the Keshet Center for the Arts, which opened 17 years after those initial conversations. Randy Cooper and his wonderfully talented and kind daughter Carol designed and created the "Keshet" shadow sculpture and the "Garden of Possibilities" which together grace the entry lobby of the Keshet Center for the Arts.

The Keshet community has been honored to call Randy and the entire Cooper family part of our family for these past 30 years. His memory is a blessing to all of us. We wrap his incredible wife Susan and his beautiful children and grandchildren in love and light during this time of mourning.

Please feel free to share any memories of Randy with us here and we will make sure to pass any messages along to the beloved Cooper family.