The city of Delhi attracts large numbers of national and international visitors because of its position as the capital, the fascinating architectural remains, and its role in promoting the performing arts. The annual tourist footfall is said to be the highest among all other cities in India, and it has encouraged many art practitioners, including dancers, to make this capital city of India their home. This essay is an attempt to explore the dance ecology that has developed in this city since Indian independence. The growth of premier institutions, the state patronage, the cultural policies, and the overall proximity that is relatively easier between the structures of patronage and the dancers, have made this city a hub of dance-related activities. Such activities include dance institutions teaching specific classical and folkdance forms, many dancers migrating to Delhi to make it their home, annual fundings and state recognitions, and numerous festivals and invitation for foreign tours organized through Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) or Ministry of Culture. The ecology is kept dynamic and vibrant by the active engagement and patronage of the Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) by organizing and patronizing different categories of dance presentations and awards. This ecology is that of a central point, where the margins become inconsequential just by the geopolitical distance they have from the focal centre. At such a centre—the presence of dancers is marked for their visibility and rewarded with invitations to events that would lead to representation and recognition. The essay also scrutinizes the interplay between the centre and the margins of the city in terms of visibility of the mainstream classical dance forms vis-à-vis the less visible contemporary forms of embodied practices by lesser known but passionately engaged artists. By using multidisciplinary methodologies of history, performance anthropology, dance studies and cultural studies, the essay hopes to analyse the allocation of spaces, patronage, and the audience who frequent the different spaces of performance. It also will attempt to understand the dynamics of local authorities and citizens to point to the cultural landscape of the city as a whole, and to configure a vivid imprint of cultural value generation.