The Brand Associates Dance Series presents four performances this spring at Brand Library & Art Center, 1601 W. Mountain St. in Glendale. This series, curated by acclaimed choreographer, teacher and producer Jamie Nichols, presents top dance companies from Southern California performing site-specific work in non-traditional performance spaces around Brand Library. The Dance Series is sponsored by the Brand Associates. Performances begin at 6 p.m.

  The schedule is as follows:  

• Bipedal Herd – Saturday, April 25
• Celeste Lanuza Dance Theater – Saturday, May 2
• Deborah Rosen and Dancers – Saturday, May 9
• LA Swing Dance Posse (LASDP) – Saturday, May 16

  Bipedal Herd utilizes contemporary dance and site-specific performance installation, creating startling yet beautiful imagery that evokes other worldliness. In Temperature Drop, Bipedal Herd will present tightly choreographed vignettes against structured improvisation, mirroring the tension between order and the inevitable unraveling of time. BipedalHerd.com

  Celeste Lanuza Dance Theater is an ensemble of dancers, actors and musicians who bring interdisciplinary work highlighting the Xicane experience through embodied practice, spoken word, original live music, singing and instrumentation. This performance premieres We’ll Rise, a celebration of diverse works from the company’s repertoire. CelesteLanuza.com

  Deborah Rosen and Dancers explore personal connection through contemporary dance, using reflective movement and somatic practices. The company will present their latest dance, ATZMI (the essence of myself), which unfolds as a physical meditation on identity, honoring the quiet bravery of claiming one’s inner voice and standing fully inside it. The company will also present GAIA, an excerpt and solo repertoire of their full-length work, POLLEN. Facebook.com/DeborahandDancers

  LA Swing Dance Posse (LADSP) is a non-profit organization with the mission to preserve, promote, perform and teach vernacular jazz dance, such as Savoy Swing, Charleston and Lindy Hop, from the 1800s to the present. LASDP will present History of Swing Dancing, highlighting jazz dance from the 1920s through the 1950s. Feel the groove, feel the beat, and most of all, move those feet. LASwingDancePosse.org

  The performances are free and open to the public. Seating is limited. An accessible entrance and parking are located on the east side of the building. 

For more information, contact (818) 548-2051 or email Info@BrandLibrary.org.