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May 2015                                                                         Louise Reichlin & Dancers 


 

The Tennis Dances
(photo by Taso Papadakis, Port of Los Angeles, at the Tall ShipsLA Festival )

 

DANCER'S ISSUE

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- Auditions for our Company
Dancers wanted

- Applications for the
      TriArt SP Festival open
Companies wanted

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Auditions for Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ LA Choreographers & Dancers

We are having AUDITIONS FOR MALE & FEMALE DANCERS 
2015-2016 Season


When:  Thursday 5/28/15 or Tuesday, 6/9/15 at 10 am.

             E-mail louisehr@lachoreographersanddancers.org to select a date.       

Where:  Live Arts LA, 4210 Panamint St,(corner of Eagle Rock), Los Angeles CA 90065   

 

Paid performances and associated teaching activities. Rehearsal honorarium.   
Professional modern/ 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 10-1 on Sun,Tues,Thurs when in full rehearsal. 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 or facebook site.  Performances next season include local and some touring. See below for more about repertory. If unable to attend, please contact us for appointment.

 

 

Kistina Pressler at Walk On the Edge Festival, San  Diego. Photo: Sue Brenner

 
Roman Bykov & Elizabeth Ann Poinsette at HH11 Festival, Santa Barbara.
Photo: Heidi Bergseteren  

 











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 "Dreamscapes" (video below) and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz"
Reichlin has consistently created "probing and provocative" works. (Dance Magazine)

 

We recently did a complete revival of "The Tennis Dances" and added new material to "Tap Dance Widows Club" at the Bootleg Theater in April (please see a brand new review from Explore Dance.com), and created new dances for a poetry project with Linda J. Albertano at Beyond Baroque in May, as well as completing residencies at Taper, Rosemont and Hillcrest El. Schools.  We currently have many performances and residencies at schools in the Los Angeles area, both curriculum based and after school. The company, a performing unit of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers, was founded by Louise Reichlin.  

Applications Open for the TriArt SP Festival - Sept.19-20, 2015
The SAN PEDRO TRI ART Festival is a free family event featuring Dance, Music, and Visual Arts/Crafts Booths in the Ports O'Call Village on the waterfront. This will be its 9th year, and the 5th at this beautiful outside location. Founded by Joe Caccavalla, we have been curating the event, but on Joe's passing in 2012, Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers began producing it. As a non-profit, we began applying for grants at that point. We are delighted that we have just received another Department of Cultural Affairs, City of LA, Festival Grant. We will again have a series of summer and fall free previews that lead to the main event, with one scheduled at Alvas Showcase on August 29.

Last year the Dance component included 14 professional and 6 pre-professional companies from all over the Southland. You can see more about the last three year's festivals at web-site TriArt SP 2014. 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 several thousand over the days events. We anticipate good coverage for the event, both before and after.

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 link. Professional companies- 10 to 30', pre-professional under 10'. If it is a new work, include projected music. If you were in it last season, please let us know if you are interested this year, and what work you might like to do. There is an honorarium for all professional companies.

This year, as last, the festival is produced by Louise Reichlin, Los Angeles Choreographers & Dances in conjunction with Jan Kain, People's Place San Pedro. More news about our partners to follow.
Is Your Company Listed in the So. CA Dance Directory?
The Southern CA Dance Directory that I began in 1995 is alive and well with over 570 listings of professional dance companies and related organizations. This free service is accessed by thousands of people each month, and I've heard that dance jobs have often come about through the information! But....if the wrong email or phone number is there, it's up to you to contact us and it will be fixed, usually within 24 hours. If you are not there and would like to be, please email the information in the format that is there. This is a special project that is a labor of love - no grants funds involved - so if you want to use it, please help keep it up to date. You can reach us at 213-385-1171 or louisehr@LAChoreographersAndDancers.org

Just 5 weeks left to contribute to our 2014-2015 Season  

Special thanks to you for your support to date.

We hope to share our dances and teaching with other areas, and new funds from you can also take us to any location in LA and much 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

 


Is Your Company Listed article photo Alfred Desio 

Patchwork Girl photo: Sallie DeEtte Mackie