A purpose-driven DC organization trailblazing a new path for Black dance innovation, Ngoma Center for Dance is driving new development in the DC arts industry. As the parent organization for Dissonance Dance Theatre (founded in 2007, becoming a Ngoma program in 2012), The Ngoma School (its professional dance school founded in 2014), the Black Dance Festival DMV (2019), and Ngoma FilmWorks (2020) Ngoma Center for Dance (a six-figure budget company in less than 10 years) continues to serve the Greater Washington, D.C. area. 
 
Hailed by Dance Spirit Magazine (NYC) as, "One of the 11 small-but-mighty dance companies outside of LA and NYC", the award-winning Dissonance Dance Theatre (DDT) is the only nationally-recognized, Black-operated contemporary ballet company between New York City and Atlanta. More specifically, Dissonance Dance Theatre serves as a racially-diverse platform that provides emerging, and minority dance talent in the region the opportunity to launch their professional careers; consciously confronting the equitable complexities of working with, within, and for the African-American dance community. DDT dance artists have transitioned to national and international theatrical tours, notable tv and film work, UniverSoul Circus, Nexflix theatrical productions, and acclaimed companies domestic and abroad (Garth Fagan Dance, Dorfman Dance, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Philadanco, Virginia Ballet Theater, America’s Got Talent, and more).