One of the cool things about living in D.C. right now is that there are still movers and shakers around who have been instrumental in coaxing the city from its sleepy period a few decades back to its current status as an increasingly cosmopolitan place. Carla Perlo is one of those folks. A Washington-area native, she founded Dance Place in 1980 in an effort to give the region’s few modern dancers another venue for classes and performances. That was back in Adams Morgan, before the rents in that neighborhood went sky high and she was forced to leave.