Above, dancers Zsolt Banki, Angela Todero, Angelina Prendergast, and Samantha Hoe on site. Sung-Yun Park also performs again. "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 schools participating will  include So. Regional MS #2b, Plainview Elementary, Cantara Elementary, and El Oro Elementary.

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 for 4th-6th grades  please refer to our Education E-news for details & links. Also open and free to the general public, this year we have added performances. They are now on Tues. Nov. 16 at 12 noon, and  Nov. 17 at 9:15 am, 10:30 am and 12 noon. It is a unique work created by Reichlin for the 1925 historic building, and fun to watch even if you are not built into the interactive performance! It's open to the public - but reservations are a must. 213-385-1171. Please join us if you are in the Los Angeles area!

In November 2009, danceinlablogspot.com reviewed last years 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.

InIn 1981-82 Reichlin (seen above with Nancy Brigden) in "Woman Sleeping".

If you're an experienced dancer interested in being a part of a new work, Baggage, we are having auditions for new dancers each Sunday in October at 10 am at MKM Cultural Center. You should be strong in modern and contemporary techniques, with a ballet and jazz background, stage presence, expressiveness, musicality, and comfortable with floor work. All ethnic types. Rehearsals are now beginning on a revival of Woman Sleeping (photo above from the original production), and will be co-ordinated with a new work about Death, and how we continue to connect with those we have been close to that becomes additional 'baggage', but in a positive way. Besides the dance aspect of the work, we will soon be asking people to contribute images and words using Flickr and the Internet about someone (person or animal) that they (or perhaps you) have lost. Auditions include a free class and combinations. More details about the audition address, etc. click here.

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 1 more school or district. (as this goes to press we will also be at Jefferson Elementary through the Paramount School District in November, and at Broad Elementary (part of the LAUSD) in February). For this residency, your school does need to be in Supervisor Knabe's County District 4 and it is a matching grant. Please click here for more information, and if interested contact us by email or phone (213-385-1171). The full package is an expansion of our ACPN residency with 10 student workshops, additional PD's, planning meetings, etc.