Help us make dance that makes a difference
Your gift puts world premiere dance theater on stage, brings free performances and workshops to Houston children, and opens the door to everyone.
Celebrate and support dance in Houston
Open Dance Project is an ensemble-driven dance theater company dedicated to developing and presenting world-class dance theater experiences in Houston and serving as a cultural resource through engaging and enriching education and community programming. ODP develops programming that breaks down barriers to the arts through both practical access and inclusion efforts and engaging interactive content in our immersive and all-ages performances.
Performance with an open door
Every gift supports professional artists making original work and the access and education programs that make sure everyone can be part of it.
Engagement
A 12-person ensemble of Houston artists creating original, audience-centered dance theater, from intimate premieres to free outdoor performances.
See the seasonAccess
ASL, audio description, sensory-friendly shows, touch tours, captioning, pay-what-you-can seats, and free weekly adaptive dance theater classes.
Access servicesLearning
Performances in schools plus more than 3,820 hours of classes, workshops and residencies last season. For thousands of children, ours is their first live theater.
Arts in schoolsDance in the room, with everyone
From outdoor family workshops to school gyms, community centers, and our free Adaptive Dance Theater classes at Hunter Dance Center, our teaching artists meet people where they already are - making dance a part of people’s everyday lives. Your gift helps us bring dance to everyone.
Celebrate with us
Our annual benefit brings supporters, artists, and neighbors together for an evening of food, company, and live dance, in support of everything we do.
Make your contribution today
Open Dance Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Matching gifts
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Check for a matchCorporate and stock gifts
To discuss corporate sponsorship or gifts of stock, email Annie Arnoult at giving@opendanceproject.org.
Come to a show
Tickets support our work, and the best way to see it is to be in the room. Bring someone.
See the season“When the students were asked to raise their hands if this was their first time seeing a live performance in a theater, thousands of hands went up each show.”
Open Dance Project at The Hobby Center, September 2025Houston-area 5th graders fill Sarofim Hall at The Hobby Center’s ExxonMobil Discovery Series performance of Open Dance Project’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Photo: Lynn Lane
Thank you for your support
Your gift keeps the doors open, the ensemble working, and the seats full.
Performance photography by Lynn Lane.