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About Us
- LQ’s Performing Arts Center (LQ’s P.A.C.), founded in April 2004, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization. Originally established in Bakersfield, CA, the organization is now primarily based in Los Angeles, CA.
- Our mission is to embrace, enhance, and empower the community through the performing arts by making the arts accessible to all— from youth and adults impacted by the justice system to overworked employees seeking stress relief.
- Our goal is to provide professional instruction in the performing arts that emphasizes proper technique, creativity, performance ability, and personal growth for students of all ages. We aim to uplift our students and give them a platform to showcase their talents, sharing what they have learned through their training.
- We believe in the transformative power of the arts to heal, empower, and unite communities. We use the performing arts as a powerful tool for social and cognitive transformation—breaking down both the physical walls of incarceration and the internal barriers individuals place on themselves, fostering healing, accountability, and personal empowerment.
- Caring for the well-being of our community is central to LQ’s. LQ’s Performing Arts Center cultivates, fosters, and promotes the skills and talents of individuals within our communities.
- LQ’s Performing Arts Center envisions a world where the performing arts are accessible to all, serving as a pathway to healing, empowerment, and transformation. We strive to be a catalyst for change by nurturing creativity, uplifting underserved and justice-impacted communities, and providing platforms where every individual can learn, grow, and shine.
LQ's Performing Arts Center's Director, LaQuette Milner
Milner left California for New York City, where she graduated from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She went on to appear in a national tour of Nickelodeon’s Rugrats, perform on Broadway, and participate in various other shows and plays. Milner later earned a B.A. in Theatre Arts from California State University, Bakersfield, and founded LQ’s Performing Arts Center. She also wrote, produced, directed, acted in, and toured her original play, Da’ Hip-Hop Wizzard of Oz. For the past ten years, in addition to teaching dance classes, Milner has shifted her focus from performing on stage to performing in classrooms—teaching inmates, probationers, and community members in Los Angeles County the high school requirements necessary to earn their diplomas.
Since COVID...
LQ's offers Zoom Hip-Hop Dance Classes for all ages-from time to time. Sign-up today!
Just in case you didn't know...
Dance has a wide range of physical and mental benefits:
- Improved mental functioning
- Increased muscular strength, endurance and motor fitness
- Increased aerobic fitness
- Improved muscle tone and strength
- Weight management
- Stronger bones and reduced risk of osteoporosis
- Better coordination, agility and flexibility
- Improved balance and spatial awareness
- Increased physical confidence
- Improved condition of your heart and lungs
- Improved general and psychological wellbeing
- Greater self-confidence and self-esteem
- Better social skills.