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, includes:
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.

 

SCHOOLS - 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  room for about 60 students at each. Email us or call 213-385-1171 to reserve.

To the left and above 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. Last year, students from Charles H. Kim ES, Loyola Village ES, and Pacoima Performing Arts Magnet attemded our 2008 event. 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 CA Arts Funds have had catagorical restrictions removed, 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. Four short solos fo Alfred dancing from 1978 have just been added to YouTube.com/Alfred Desio. Another new video is on Louise Reichlin's account  on YouTube and it is The Better to Bite You With (5' excerpt). For you history folk, the photo to the right is from 1959 of Alfred Desio and Joe Pilates in Joe's studio on 8th Ave. Alfred used to assist him.
Below is Sung-Yun Park from the new modern clip. The Better to Bite You With will be performed at the Steelworkers Auditorium in Fontana on December 2 at 6 pm presented by their city in a free performance. For advance info call 909-428-8818.

Female dancer, must be strong on point and ballet for one of the parts, and should also be a  contemporary dancer with modern, ballet and jazz background, strong stage presence, expressive, musical, and technical. Floor work important. Rehearsal honorarium. For performances of The Better to Bite You With. First one is on December 2, media shoot in November. Our rehearsals are Tues, Thurs, Sunday mornings from 10-1. The rehearsals required to attend will not be all these dates as we have other projects at the same time. Please see  video for the style of this new program for families. Call 213-385-1171 or email Louise  resume.