Danse Lumiere (formerly Anima Mundi) creates dance theater linking the arts, environment, and humanity. We  specialize in adapting outstanding works from the world's literature to the stage, giving new form to these works through the fusion of dance, theater and music, and focusing our work on the most pressing issues of our time.

Danse Lumiere was founded by choreographer Kathryn Roszak in 1995.
As a choreographer Kathryn Roszak has a proven track record of creating innovative dance theater. Our performance work includes collaborating with indigenous musicians from Arctic Norway and working with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder to bring his epic poem, Mountains and Rivers Without End, to the stage. Poets Emily Dickinson and Rainier Maria Rilke have inspired our adaptations of literature. Danse Lumiere has collaborated with contemporary writers Michael McClure and Maxine Hong Kingston. We've performed throughout the Bay Area, at venues including Theatre Artaud, The Cowell Theater, The Magic Theater, The Asian Art Museum and the University
of San Francisco. La MaMa ETC, New York; The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the Copenhagen Cultural Festival, Denmark.

We have received awards from the Djerassi Foundation and the Carlisle
Choreography Project, and grants awarded include support from Laurance
S. Rockefeller, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the LEF Foundation,
Zellerbach Family Fund, Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Goethe Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, among others.

Danse Lumiere is unique in its approach of adapting literature to the stage.
As a dance company it's also original with its bridge-building capacities
between art forms, audiences, and venues. We reach diverse audiences in unusual settings. New works address important themes such as environmental issues, issues of social justice and peace through dance.