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Dance NOW! Miami's mission is to be a leading company of excellence, to create, promote and produce contemporary dance of the highest caliber, and through performance, arts education, community leadership and innovative programming, nurture new talents, foster artistic collaborations and make the art of dance accessible to diverse audiences locally, nationally and internationally.

Dance NOW!’s educational mission is to provide multi-faceted training and pathways to higher education, professional opportunities and inclusion for Miami’s economically, culturally, socially and geographically diverse population.

DNM is a beacon of homegrown, world-class art; a brand that is honored, presented, and recognized nationally and internationally.

Dance NOW! Miami, the leading contemporary dance company in Florida was founded in 2000 by Hannah Baumgarten and Diego Salterini. The company serves as a model for collaboration and entrepreneurship headed by two individuals from different continents who intersected and made Miami their home, creating an organization that now leads the South Florida dance community.

Voted “Best Dance Company” by the Miami New Times in 2022, and a resident company at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex and the Miami Beach Bandshell, the company presents several major projects annually, featuring original work from the Artistic Directors, created individually and collaboratively. In addition, the company's Masterpiece in Motion series honors the rich legacy of dance through the reconstruction of historic works of ballet and modern dance from the 20th and 21st Century from Doris Humphrey to Isadora Duncan to Gerald Arpino/Joffrey Ballet. Dance NOW! also presents branded, immersive, site-specific performances that take place in museums, galleries and architectural sites called the Ekphrasis Project. Dance NOW! has collaborated with over 250 artists and organizations nationally and internationally including New York’s Limón Dance Company, Dança em Diálogos from Portugal, Mexico City Ballet and Opus Ballet out of Florence, Italy.

DNM leads the South Florida dance community with initiatives such as the Daniel Lewis Dance Sampler, which celebrates Florida’s established companies, and New Voices, presenting and mentoring contemporary choreographers from the national arena. The company has been presented in sixteen states and on three continents, from Brazil to Mexico, Honduras to Italy and Portugal.

During the COVID-19 crisis, DNM led the dance community with the release of the Covid(eos), a series of dance video shorts, relevant to the moment and providing new content for its audiences while continuing its artistic mission, and the company continues to create dance films alongside its in-person dance events.

With a strong commitment to education, DNM has reached over 50,000 children in South Florida alone through its in-school residencies, the World Dance Summer Intensive, the Dance NOW! Youth Ensemble, and performances throughout the community and from its home at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex.

Dance NOW! has been described as "...unabashed beauty... (Annie Hollingsworth, Artburst), "...carnal and courageous, with an impressive range of movement and motion," (Mia Leonin, Miami Art Guide), "...not only elegant and fierce, but dedicated to its community; a mature, exciting and bounds-breaking company." (Miguel Estefan, Miami Art Guide) with "...enough original vision here to make Dance NOW! worth watching more than ever...." (Jordan Levin, Miami Herald)