Ancient Lakes Dance Festival

Ancient Lakes Dance Festival

The world's first youth-founded dance festival showing works by the next generation of professional dancers and choreographers.

Ancient Lakes Dance Festival was founded by two young professional dancers, Chloe Brown and Luchian Munteanu. It is the world’s first dance festival operated and owned by youths from the ages of 17-22, artists just breaking in to the professional field. Often young dancers and choreographers have to wait many years to dance in the spotlight, to create new works, and to have an audience to view them. The festival was founded to give these talented young people a place to explore and create within the dance world.

The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the performing arts world. It has made performing to a live audience, in front of a packed house, an idea of the past. But Ancient Lakes Dance Festival was created amidst the pandemic, and developed to show the world how dance performance can be still be done, even under new special circumstances. We believe the arts are vitally important, now more than ever. Ancient Lakes Dance Festival is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the future of live dance performance.