Earlier Seasons
Urban and Tribal Dances was created over a three year period from 1990-92, by Louise Reichlin, that uses metaphor and transfers what we think of as tribal behavior to the contemporary urban setting. For dance description, click on Urban and Tribal Dances: description.
The performance at Manual Arts High School Auditorium is the culmination of a residency at the school from October 23 to December 5 by Louise Reichlin & Dancers, the modern company of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers. This season LA C& D has been awarded several grants from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, as well as the Community Redevelopment Agency. The division of Cultural Affairs awarding this grant is the new Youth, Arts & Education Division. Company Director Louise Reichlin, assisted by Principal Dancer JoEllyn Musser, is conducting classes for the students in modern dance, and Reichlin is interactively developing a multicultural folk dance with the students using cultures in the school and neighborhood, as well as cultures from the dancers in the company. LA C&D Costumer, Linda Borough, is working with the students to each create their individual costumes. For more about the history of this project please see Special Projects.
Alfred Desio guests in Celtic Suite, which will also include Susie MacGuire, a trio for 3 women.
Also on the program is This is the day, We..., a work created with students and families from Grant Elementary School, where Reichlin's company was in residence the month of May.
For reservations and information, phone 213-485-0709.
The Barnsdall Artists Cafe: Up On Mondays series is a program of the Office of Festivals and Gallery Theatre of the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. The performance is funded in part by the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (Youth, Arts & Education) and City of Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency.
Presented by the USC Program Board, Performing Arts Division.
The program included the Los Angeles premiere of Dances of Assimilation and the World Premiere of The E-Mail Dances: Version 1.0a.
Alfred Desio guests in Celtic Suite. Selections from LA C& D signature piece The Tennis Dances complete the program, featuring several sections not performed in Los Angeles since 1991.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Guesting on program of Glendale College Dance Department
sponsored by Allan Hancock College at the Marian Theater. The program culminates two days of residency activities.
in a Family Program sponsored by the Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation at the Torrance Cultural Center, James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance. The program includes modern works by Reichlin and Desio's Tap-Tronics(tm) as well as traditional jazz tap choreography.
"Exhilarating, thought provoking, and joyous blend!"
In May '96 was a special project at Grant Elementary School in Hollywood. During our residency there, we worked with 72 children and their families developing a dance piece about shared life activities. The dance workshops, twice a week, were led by Reichlin, assisted by company member JoEllyn Musser, and Linda Borough, LA C& D costumer conducted the costume development a third day each week. The project culminated with a free performance on May 31 by Louise Reichlin & Dancers and included the new piece and participants of the workshops. This was funded in part by grants from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and from the City of Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency. Please contact us if you would like to help support these activities with contributions to our Non-profit organization Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers. Our non-profit ID number is 95-3509028. Our telephone number is (213)665-5628.
New Projects in the Schools
1994-95 Revisited
On Saturday, May 20, 1995, Zapped Taps(tm)/Alfred Desio , performed live at the Electronic Cafe in Santa Monica, at the Dairy Center for the Arts in conjunction with the Boulder Creek Festival in Boulder Colorado, at the World Trade Center in New York, and at the Electronic Cafe in Austin Texas. This was possible because of a ISDN wide band hook up. For Alfred Desio, based in Los Angeles, this began with a phone call from Dorinda Dercar, a tapper now residing in Boulder. She wanted the secret of how Desio creates electronic tap sounds, which she had first heard and seen in the film Tap, for which Alfred Desio was the consultant whose technology made it happen. After many calls and faxes, the two performed an interactive duet, she in Boulder and he in Santa Monica. Other artists on the program included Edwin Torres and Virtual Presence in New York, and music and comedy combining forces from the four cities.
Even with these exciting technology events, a primary focus last season was still the special programs developed for the schools by both Louise Reichlin & Dancers and Zapped Taps/Alfred Desio. Reichlin's group added several weeks in Ventura and Orange County in addition to forty-one schools in the LA Unified, ranging from north in Sylmar to south in San Pedro in a season running from July 31, 1994 to June 7, 1995. Performances in schools are ones we will always strive to maintain. No advanced computer project can ever match the inspiration that springs from both sides of the footlights during our interactive programs that include repertory of four of our dances interspersed with audience participation so the students begin to understand that dance is something they can do and use in their own lives. That same season Alfred also spent two weeks in small towns in central California with a new school program using his Zapped Taps pulling together both dance and science in his approach.
For information about these pages please contact Louise Reichlin at louisehr@usc.edu or call (213)385-1171.
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