Mission
Founded in 2007, David Herrera Performance Company champions and uplifts the U.S. Latinx community by creating innovative dance works, fostering leadership and collaboration in the dance field, and building community through performance, community outreach, and impact programming. DHPCo. is known for theatrical, visceral movement -- weaving dance, storytelling, music, and culture into a textured conversation between Latinx peoples and a multicultural society. Recognized as a regional and national leader, DHPCo. cultivates relationships amongst Latinx dance artists, increasing spaces for networking, collaboration, exchange, and success.

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Vision
David Herrera Performance Company envisions a future where Latinx voices are elevated and celebrated as central contributors to the U.S. dance field and society. We strive to be a leader in redefining dance by fostering a more inclusive and equitable arts community—one where Latinx dance artists are financially supported, empowered with sustainable jobs, and connected through robust networks that enable them to thrive and inspire future generations.​

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David Herrera Performance Company prides itself in providing visibility, agency, & exposure of a diverse Latinx American experience within an U.S. context.The company is centered on equity and representation of Latinx peoples in dance as subjects, performers, choreographers, audience, curators, scholars, policy makers, teachers, and students.  We hope to create a lineage and network from which other Latinx artists can learn from and work with.  DHPCo is one of few predominantly Latinx focused contemporary dance companies in the United States.  

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The company has been featured in multiple television, print publications, and online:

 

Academia: Dance Research Journal, Theatre Survey

Television: PBS "Connect the Bay", ABC Channel 7, KRON Channel 4 (San Francisco)

Radio: iHeartRadio, STAR 101.3FM, The Breeze 98.1FM, WILD 94.9FM, 80s+ KOSF 103.7FM, KAWL 91.7FM

Print: San Francisco Chronicle, SF Guardian, SF Weekly, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Santa Cruz Good Times, San Jose Mercury News 

Online: 48Hills.org, Mission Local, Stance on Dance blog, Life As a Modern Dancer blog, California Literary Review (Dance Vine), Canvas Rebel, InDance, Bay Area Dance Watch.

Podcasts: Dance Union Podcast, LXNdance Podcast, Wanda Sabir’s Radio Podcast

Please see our Press Page for a fuller list. 

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Residencies have contributed the creative process and longevity of DHPCo.  These include:

HMD Community Engagement Residency 

The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts

Z Space Technical Residency

ODC "Sandbox"

West Coast Dance Conservatory

Studio 210

Kunst-Stoff Arts

 Safehouse Arts 

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Works by DHPCo. have been seen regionally and nationally at Z Space (SF), Links Hall (Chicago), ODC Theater (SF), Little Theater (Seattle, WA), AustinVentures Studio Theater (Austin, Tx), Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (SF), UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University (Ca), Orange County Community College (Ca), Miles Memorial Playhouse (Santa Monica, Ca), Spector Dance Studios (Marina, Ca),  Yerba Buena Gardens (SF), Dance Mission Theater (SF), and  more.  

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DHPCo. has been generously supported by:

California Arts Council  

San Francisco Arts Commission

Center for Cultural Innovation 

 Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grant

Kenneth Rainin Foundation

Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation

Fleishhacker Foundation

CA$H Grant 

Commonwealth Charitable Fund 

Sales Force Champion Grant

Puffin Foundation Grant

Individual Donors​​​