Help Us Build Our New Dance Home

Selah Dance Collective and Novus Contemporary Ballet are excited to announce the opening of our new shared rehearsal and training space. This studio will serve as a creative home for our professional dancers, trainees, youth programs, community classes, and collaborative performances – a place where artists and audiences can connect through movement.

Every donation – and every merchandise purchase – goes directly toward building upgrades that will allow dancers to train, rehearse, and create safely in this new artistic home.

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Upcoming

Winter Workshop Series | Partnering Workshop with Meredith Ventura

March 2026 – Date and Time TBD

Santa Barbara Dance Arts
531 E Cota St, Santa Barbara, CA

Selah Dance Collective’s Partnering Workshop Series invites dancers of all skill levels to explore the dynamic possibilities of shared weight, trust, and physical dialogue. Designed for all levels of movers, the series builds practical partnering tools while encouraging risk, adaptability, and creative agency. Participants can expect a supportive, process-driven environment that prioritizes safety, curiosity, and embodied intelligence—whether refining foundational partnering mechanics or expanding their artistic range within collaborative movement.

King City Dance Week

February 26-27, 2026

Stanton Theater 
720 Broadway Street, King City, CA 93030

Selah Dance Collective/Novus Contemporary Ballet will present Opal, a new work by Meredith Ventura.

Disco Elysium

May 30-31, 2026

Santa Barbara, CA | Location to be announced

Disco Elysium is the final movement in Selah Dance Collective’s triptych exploring cabaret, modernism, and the grotesque body in performance. Following Sound and Smoke (the tragedy) and Palermo! (the comedy), this new work arrives as a culminating collision, an ecstatic reckoning of satire, seduction, and dissolution. Learn more about this new work here.

Press

  • "Ventura’s work in "Sound and Smoke" is poignant, deeply researched across the span of history, and intricately choreographed, ultimately creating an exciting, unnerving, and thought-provoking experience."

    Lola Watts, SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

  • “Selah Dance Collective had a very distinct style, performing “Rogue Planets” and “Reverie.” The dancers were dressed in a neutral palette that highlighted their graceful movements throughout both pieces. In “Rogue Planets,” they did a great job of utilizing the entire stage to create an interesting space and emphasize juxtaposition between dancers.”

    Ella Todd, THE CHANNELS

  • “Bursting with movement and packed with satisfyingly large ensemble casts, director Meredith Cabaniss Ventura took advantage of the numbers to build alluring, otherworldly formations and punches of synchronized choreography for instant impact.”

    Kaita Mrazek, AMERICAN RIVIERA MEDIA

  • "The evening flowed seamlessly with “Rogue Planets,” Meredith Cabaniss’s quietly methodical vision of four individuals on the precipice of enlightenment. Dancer Ashley Kohler-Reynolds shined through the imposing glare of the stage’s foot strobes, injecting Cabaniss’s contemporary ballet with seasoned deliberation and lingering interludes."

    SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

  • "Fearless and sensitive; she [director Meredith Cabaniss] engages challenge as adventure, humor as precious, and spirit as essential. Her work makes all involved stop, listen, and experience. SELAH has a knack for creating a world that engages dancer, audience, and choreographer challenging all to take an introspective approach to questions about human nature."

    Jonathan Eymann, Former Dancer

  • "...wildly talented, meticulously thorough, and refreshingly open to new perspectives."

    Ninette Paloma, SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

  • "An ambitious collection of work by talented dancers and choreographers... the conversation that SELAH presented through this work is vital."

    Maggie Yates, SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

  • “The evening’s title work, choreographed by Cabaniss Ventura and the company of nine dancers, made it abundantly clear that dance is back in a big way.”

    Charles Donelan, SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT