At 2:00 pm. Louise Reichlin & Dancers/LA Choreographers & Dancers performs "Grounding" from "The Better to Bite Your With" and Selections from "The Tennis Dances".  The schedule of companies for this free festival, now in its third year, include:
1:15 - Kenneth Walker Dance Project
1:30 - La Danserie
2:00 - Louise Reichlin & Dancers/LA Choreographers & Dancers
2:30 - Creation Dance Theatre
4:00 - Music finish - Jerry Butera's Band

For our dancers please see end of this E-News and for more details go to our web site calendar. For the complete schedule of both the 12th and 13th, plus the events of the day that include an antique car show go to  the official festival site.

 

This engaging interactive site specific work will be presented again at the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center on Wednesday, 11/18/09. We will be using some of our grant money so you can have your students participate for FREE. "Dance at the Stone House" performed by Louise Reichlin & Dancers is a work that uses audience participation to design a dance piece based on the unusual architecture and art that is the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center in Sun Valley, CA. The event is both educational for the participants, and  FUN TO WATCH AND FREE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. For an article about the original performances see our  Education Notes 2008. Click here for a  video/slideshow. Please contact us right away if you have a 4th, 5th, or 6th grade you would like to bring. Did we mention it is FREE THIS YEAR? There are two events at 10:30 am and 12 noon and there is only room for 60 students at each. Email us or call 213-385-1171 to reserve.

To the left are some of the students who attended and participated in our first Dance at the Stone House in October 2007, Ritter ES and Millikan MS. The photo above includes students from our 2008 event, Charles H. Kim ES, Loyola Village ES, and Pacoima Performing Arts  Magnet. For more about our Arts Community Partnership packages and for our new Professional Development packages follow the links. We would like to return to your school, or do our programs there for the first time.

Although the Arts Funds are now gone, Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education in Washington D.C. recently sent a letter about the importance of arts in education, and urged schools to use their title one funds for this. Contact us if you need more information on this, or Robin Lithgow, who is the new Administrative Coordinator of the Arts Education Branch. Her number is 213-241-0490.

 

There are new photo galleries of Alfred Desio on  our brand new website. After 14 years, we finally have menus! And lots of new photo galleries and videos, not only of Alfred, but also many of both his and Louise Reichlin's works through the years. Look under the new History section for this. Another new video there and on YouTube is "Dream Scapes" the beautiful cirque live music production created by Steve Reid that Reichlin choreographed and the company toured with between 2000 and 2005. The photo below is from the original video shoot at the Japan America Theatre and two from "Flowers in the Snow" are Yuki Tomino and Ross Graves.