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May 2013 Louise Reichlin & Dancers
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The Baggage Project
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- Auditions for our Company
Dancers wanted
- Applications for the
TriArt SP Festival open
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Auditions for Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ LA Choreographers & Dancers
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When: Tuesday 6/11/13. Where: Live Arts LA, 4210 Panamint St,(corner of Eagle Rock), Los Angeles CA 90065
Paid performances and associated teaching activities. Rehearsal honorarium.
Dancers should have modern and contemporary, strong ballet and jazz background, strong stage presence, expressiveness, musicality, and technique. Floor work important and the ability to improvise helpful. Tap is useful if other areas are strong, but not required. All ethnic types.
Rehearsals times are Sundays 10-1, Tues 10-1 and Thurs 10-1. To see some of the styles look at YouTube.com/LouiseReichlin, then the name of the production. For more information call 213-385-1171 or e-mail louisehr@lachoreographersanddancers.org. Also see our web site. Performances next season include local and some touring. See below for more about repertory. If unable to attend, please contact us for appointment.
 
We are continuing work after this summer on "Baggage", about Death and how we continue to connect with those we have been close to that become additional 'baggage' in a positive way.
 | | Tap Dance Widows Club is a film and live performance work (The Baggage Project) that incorporates a number of dance styles. |
Coming up public performances include August at LA Ballet Studio and the Moss Theater during the Western Arts Alliance conference, and at the TriArt Festival on Sept 7 and Sept 22. The last 2 seasons we have also toured to New York for performances. We currently have many performances and residencies at schools in the Los Angeles area. The company, a performing unit of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers, was founded by Louise Reichlin. Louise Reichlin & Dancers burst into the public eye in 1979 with their first performance at the Anson Ford Theatre when "Reichlin created a sensation with"The Tennis Dances" (Dance News). Over the years she has continued to examine our society from its most primitive nature to the emergence of the information age with"The E-mail Dances" in 1996. Through multiple performances for the 23rd Olympiad, a summer series at the LA Zoo, touring the US and Mexico with "Dream Scapes" and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz," Reichlin has consistently created "probing and provocative" works. (Dance Magazine). |
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Applications Open for the TriArt SP Festival - Sept. 21-22, 2013
| The SAN PEDRO ♥ TRI ART Festival is a free family event featuring dance, music & crafts in the Ports O'Call Village on the waterfront. This will be its 7th year, and the 3rd at this beautiful outside location. Founded by Joe Caccavalla, we have been curating the event, but on Joe's passing last summer, Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers began producing it. As a non-profit, we began applying for grants at that point. We are delighted to announce we have just been awarded our first Department of Cultural Affairs, City of LA, Festival Grant. There will be a small honorarium this year for the professional companies.
Last year the Dance component included 16 professional and 6 pre-professional companies from all over the Southland. You can see more about the last two year's festivals at web-sites TriArt SP 2012 and TriArt Festival Dance 2011. For a short video from these years see below:
 | | TriArt Festival - excerpts 2011 & 2012 |
There is an interest in all dance forms performed by professional companies including traditional ballet and modern as well as ethnic dance forms and hip-hop. Most of the works were traditional in their presentation last year, but several companies did interactive pieces that involved audience members, and this is another area of interest. This is for an outdoor marley covered stage approximately 32 x 28 feet. Each set will be 10-30 minutes. The programs open with 2-3 pre-professional groups each day, so we'd like to hear from schools also. The turn out on each day was well over a thousand. We anticipate good coverage for the event, both before and after.
If you were in the festival last season, please let us know if you are interested this year, and what work you might like to do. Last year we received many more applications than there was room for, so if you were not selected before, please try again, perhaps with a different piece. There is always great diversity in the programming. To apply, email what you would like to perform, including a digital press packet and video. If it is a new work, include projected music.
This year, as last, our partners include Alvas/ Matt Lincir, Spirit Cruises and Ports O'Call Restaurant/ Jayme Wilson, LA County District 4/Don Knabe Supervisor, and LA City District 15/ Joe Buscaino, Councilman. New this year will be a preview at Crafted, also at the Port of Los Angeles, on Sept. 7. Besides the new DCA LA Festival Grant, we have been awarded an LA County Music in Public Places grant.
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Special Thanks
| Special thanks to you for your support!
Please continue to contribute and consider raising the amount if you are able. Our fiscal year goes through June 30! The Los Angeles County Arts Commission and DCA City of Los Angeles grants are both matching grants, and went towards the TriArt Festival in September and the performances of Tap Dance Widows Club and the Baggage Project in November. The USA Fund Raising Project went towards the premier of Tap Dance Widows Club.
Our school activities funded by Don Knabe's Educational Partnership Grant need matching funds. We thank LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas who has recommended us for another residency, but your funds can take us to any location in LA or Santa Barbara County (or further). If you donate, you can help us get to your location!! Please visit our website to make your donation.
 
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Videos of Louise Reichlin & Alfred Desio:
click here for Reichlin on You/Tube
click here for Desio on You/Tube
Please contact us if you would like more information about anything you see here.
Sincerely,
Louise Reichlin, Director
Louise Reichlin & Dancers/LA Choreographers & Dancers
Top photo: Paul Antico
2 company photos: Paul Antico, Bill Hebert
Patchwork Girl photo: Sallie DeEtte Mackie
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