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Welcome to our 42nd Season of Dance!

As a side note: If you would like to see what we've been doing for the last 4 decades, just go to the 40 Years of Dance tab, and you can take a peek at the work we've created over 40 years.

We've begun work on our upcoming season!

We held auditions on Friday, August 28th for our sister company, Light Ballet Company, and on Saturday, August 29 for the Dance Theatre, the Apprentice Company, and the Third Stage.

This year's list of company members brings some new faces into the mix, as well as some returning ones!

Save the dates:

It's a Chipotle Fundraiser on Sunday, October 11, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, at the Downtown Davis Chipotle!

Have a great meal and support the company at the same time. You can order online or at the restaurant itself, but be sure to use the code listed below and tell them that you're participating before paying :) Then they will generously donate 25% of yur purchase to the Dance Theatre! Please note that gift cards and delivery orders don't count.

Your support helps fund our community outreach programs including free classes for people living with Parkinson's Disease and their caregivers, free classes for adults 65 and older, our scholarship program (this year we were able to scholarship five different dancers!), and more. We thank you in advance for your support!

Our Fall Concert will be held on Saturday and Sunday, November 14 and 15.

The working title was Life as an Asymmetrical Being, although Super Intelligence versus Natural Stupidity was in the running for a while. Upon further reflection and after multiple discussions with others, the title is now Walking Contradictions.

It should prove to be a thoughtful and sometimes humorous exploration of the ways that our personal idiosyncrasies both help and hinder life journeys.

And, as always, a huge thank you to all who so generously helped support the PTDT on this year's Big Day of Giving!

This year our goal was $20,000, and with your help, we made it and more, for a grand total of $21,952 that will go towards supporting our work in the community.

Your support helps us maintain and grow our programs which, in addition to premiering new works in concert for 41 years, include our Dance For Parkinson's program which provides free movement classes for people living with Parkinson's Disease and their caregivers in both Davis and Sacramento, our Second Wind Dance program which provide free classes for adults 65 and older, our week-long summer camp for school-age children 6 - 12 that uses movement and visual arts for academic enrichment in reading and writing, the Annual Davis Dance Project that produces collaborative community performances with free tickets for children 12 and younger, and our Dance in Public Places program with free classes for the community to learn dances and perform with the companies in public. Also, last year we began a scholarship program providing opportunities for community members for whom dance training may not fit the family budget. This year (2025 - 2026) we are pleased to offer scholarships to 4 different dancers!

To find out more about us on the Giving Edge: https://www.bigdayofgiving.org/organization/PTDT

The Apprentice Company dancers for this season

The Third Stage dancers for this season.

This season's PTDT dancers

This season's LBC dancers

It's Donor Appreciation Time!

The Pamela Trokanski Dance Theatre would like to acknowledge Louise Kellogg, Distinguished Professor in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, UC Davis, and her husband Douglas Neuhauser, retired Information Systems Manager in the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory, UC Berkeley, for their generous and continued support that has lasted decades. Louise sat on the PTDT board of directors for almost two decades, volunteering her time, energy and wisdom in support of our mission. Together they also generously supported the PTDT as donors.

We would like to especially thank Doug for his continued incredibly generous support, after Louise’s passing, naming the theater in honor of her memory. Together they have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the continued success of our work in the community. We are especially grateful for the support that has evolved into the Neuhauser & Kellogg Dance Scholarship Fund.