About

The Pennington Dance Group (PDG)

is a Los Angeles based modern dance company. As a non-profit   organization, the PDG promotes dance through performances, education, and outreach programs, and has a home base at the striking new venue, ARC Pasadena.

The Pennington Dance Group (PDG) is committed to artistic excellence in creating, performing and preserving the work of founding director John Pennington, and of other contemporary and past dance artists. Collaborating with visual and performing artists of note, the PDG creates and performs works that contain social, emotional, political, abstract and scientific themes that appeal to a wide audience.

In seeking to preserve diverse contemporary dance traditions, the PDG is also dedicated to the truthful recreation and reconstruction of significant works by seminal artists of the past.

The PDG aspires to cultivate an understanding and love of dance through education in the schools and in the community, through national and international performances, and other innovative programming.

John Pennington, the artistic director of both the PDG and ARC Pasadena, enjoyed a 14-year career with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as a performer and teacher, serves on faculty at Pomona College and Cal State Long Beach, and is co-director of the Lewitzky Dance Gallery.