San Pedro Festival of the Arts 2024 Celebrates its 18th Year

The San Pedro Festival of the Arts (formerly the SP TriArt Festival) announces its annual family event, with a unique feature this year called “2 Moves” where the performing artists will share “2 Moves” from their dance for the audience to learn, so they will be have a chance to experience some of the nuances of the piece. This will be before and between every three dances and those in the audience who wish can learn and dance on the lawn and return to their chairs or blankets to watch the next dances. As in the past, there will also be a free raffle drawing during the performance.

Twelve years ago, the TriArt Festival moved to Ports O’ Call Village helping to draw in thousands of new spectators, performers, and vendors to showcase San Pedro as a center for art. Because of construction on the site the festival then moved to a location across from the USS Iowa, Port of Los Angeles, followed by one year at Crafted, then several years at Anderson Park. Now it returns to Peck Park. The festival is live again, with performances that will be streamed for 2 weeks following.

The event will feature dance performances by 17 companies with free raffle tickets.

Performers: 

Degas Dance Studio Performance Team, Dhoon Dance, Encore Dance Company, Jazz

Spectrum Dance Company, Jose Costas Contempo Ballet, Kindra Windish, Alice

Lousen, Passion Flamenca Los Angeles, Re:borN Dance Interactive/Reborn Arts,

Sahlala Dancers, SINDHOOR & NATYAVEDA – Navarasa, Southern California

Dance Academy, The Mcculla Movement, The Southern California Dance Theatre,

Louise Reichlin & Dancers/Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers, Rajasthani

Caravan, Yusuf Nasir

Louise Reichlin, Director of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers, is executive producer and dance director, and curates by committee a diverse range of companies from a large competitive group of applications, this year including Modern, Ballet, Contemporary, East and South Indian, Jazz, Flamenco, and Middle Eastern (traditional into contemporary). Included are both professional and pre professional dance companies or schools so they can share their work with each other and the community. 

For further information email, louisehr@lachoreographersanddancers.org.

Because of the changing nature of the pandemic, San Pedro Festival of the Arts is requesting that audience members test several days earlier that week, and to wear masks if recently exposed to COVID 19.

The San Pedro Festival of the Arts is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and by LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn.

For more information on the producing company visit, https://LAChoreographersAndDancers.org. The official Festival website includes a history of many of the past festivals and participants, and this year will continue to be updated through the end of September.

The San Pedro Festival of the Arts

Time: 1 to 4:15 p.m., Sept. 21

Cost: Free

Details:  https://triartsp.com

Venue: Peck Park – on the upper lawn next to the Community Center, 560 N Western Ave, San Pedro