Above, students from the 3 schools working with us last year (King Jr. Elementary, Stonehurst Elementary, and Rockdale Elementary) yell "timber" after chopping the wood for the base of the building.  "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 combined with a standards based piece on "dance" itself that is the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center in Sun Valley, CA.

This year the unique interactive work is again offered for free through our partnership with the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center and grants from the CA Arts Council, Los Angeles County, and the city of Los Angeles. Please see our closing block for credits. If you have a 4th-6th grade you would like to bring, please contact us immediately as seating is quite limited. Click here for a pdf of the details with more photos. Click here for an all text version. The times are 10:30 and 12:00 noon on Wednesday, November 17. Contact us at 213-385-1171 or by email.

In November 2009, danceinlablogspot.com reviewed this interactive piece presented free for the students and public: "This past Wednesday I witnessed 45 remarkable minutes of dance...and 60 of the performers didn't know the steps when they showed up...Each performance is truly a miraculous achievement in communication, mathematics, spatial organization, time management, community building, education, and most certainly, dance....It all happens in a 45 minute whirlwind of meticulously choreographed activity that culminates in a performance involving five company dancers...and...60 4th- 6th graders." After vividly describing the experience, she concludes "I'm sure all involved would offer their thanks to Los Angeles Cultural Affairs and the LA County Arts Commission for making this amazing program financially feasible in such tough economic times. And of course, thank you to Louise Reichlin and LA Choreographers & Dancers for modeling the tremendous collaboration that's possible when professional and budding artists come together for even three quarters of an hour.(Please see writer Anna Reed's article for the rest.)

At the Dance At the Stone House in November 2009, dancers become garden scuptures as the students explore.

A repeat photo from our first residency at Gulf Elementary School in Wilmington in July through an Educational Parnership grant from County Supervisor Don Knabe, in case you missed it in the last issue. We are thrilled to have this grant, and we can accommodate 2 more schools. (as this goes to press we will also be at Broad Elementary in February). For this residency, your school does need to be in Supervisor Knabe's County District 4. The match for this residency is $2,650. Please click here for more information, and if interested contact us by email or phone (213-385-1171). It includes an expansion of our ACPN residency with 10 student workshops, additional PD's, planning meetings, etc.