
Somapa Thai Dance Company

The Somapa Thai Dance Company is a premier Thai dance and music company based in the Washington, D.C. area, and has been performing in D.C. and other states since 1999. The group has performed at prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage and the Reach, Wolf Trap’s Children Theater in the Woods, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. They also perform regularly for the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington, D.C., and have performed for the Royal Thai Embassies in Mexico and Chile. The group’s mission is to introduce Thai arts and culture to the public, promote diversity, and encourage understanding and appreciation of the arts between people of different countries, cultures and ethnicities in the communities in which they are invited.