Contemporary West Dance Theatre, (CWDT) one of the country’s leading Contemporary Modern, ballet dance company, is excited to announce its 19 YEAR ANNIVERSARY and its relocation to the city of brotherly love Philadelphia, effective June 05, 2025 This strategic move aims to enhance our mission of fostering creative and artistic Expression while expanding our reach within one of America’s most vibrant cultural city’s.

To celebrate this exciting new chapter CWDT will present “Have a Spring Fling with CWDT” taking place May 1-2, 2026 at the esteemed Fringe Arts Theatre in old city Philadelphia. CWDT will present three performances with works by celebrated Founder and Artistic Director Bernard H. Gaddis. The program will include “Starburst” A world premiere celebrating the USA and Philadelphia’s 250th Anniversary. “l’amore l’amore l’amore”. and excerpts from various ballet, “Sacrifus”, “Steel & Bones”, and “Liaison”, all created by Founder and Director Bernard H. Gaddis.

For more information about the relocation, upcoming events and how to get involved, please visit us at www.CWDanceTheatre.org

Celebrating 19 years, Contemporary West Dance Theatre (CWDT), is a multicultural nonprofit organization founded in March 2007. Making historic strides as the first professional Contemporary Dance Theatre, and the first to be founded by two people of color in the city of Las Vegas, and the state of Nevada. Bernard H. Gaddis and Charmaine Hunter. These former principal dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dance Theatre of Harlem (respectively) created Las Vegas’ first premiere contemporary modern dance company, named by the Las Vegas Review Journal as one of the “Fab Four” Arts organizations in Nevada. Gaddis continues to lead the company and states. “CWDT has a dance methodology that integrates classical and modern paradigms with an athleticism that gives audiences a more profound dance experience”. CWDT dancers are passionate, relatable, and highly skilled, and have been bringing virtuoso performances to the stage that have excited and inspired audiences around the world for over a decade. CWDT was voted “Best Dance Company to Represent Las Vegas” two years in a row, and its Founder and Artistic Director, Bernard H. Gaddis was recently Awarded Best Choreographer in Las Vegas.