Arga Nova Dance

Beckles Dancing Company advances the arts by providing professional dance performances, education, and outreach programs. The organization promotes African American cultural heritage and contemporary dance, offering high-quality performance experiences to the public, training and mentorship for emerging artists, and scholarships to support dancer development. Through concerts, community engagement, and dance instruction, BDC fosters artistic growth, cultural appreciation, and access to professional dance opportunities for diverse audiences and participants in the Dallas area and beyond.

Beckles Dancing Company (BDC) has been a contributing leader in the Dallas-Fort Worth dance community, with an emphasis in the South Dallas area for over 30 years. For most of those years, we have been a community partner with the South Dallas Cultural Center (SDCC). We are housed in the facility and teach free dance classes, hold rehearsals and performances and have a shared office. We have successfully produced the South Dallas Dance Festival (SDDF) for over 21 years. This festival creates a space for local artists to display their works to audiences in our greater Dallas region. The SDDF also funds the South Dallas Dance Festival Scholarship through the Dance Council of North Texas. This season our BDC company doubled in size, we added to its staff an Assistant Artistic Director and Dance Captain. They work alongside the Artistic Director and Managing Director in the personal development and training of company dancers for the overall growth of the dance company.