January 24^th through January 26^th

Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 5pm

Wrenz Kaloogy by JA Collective

World premiere

PRINCIPIUM by Slauson Rec.

World premiere

75 minutes

There will be one intermission

Wrenz Kaloogy

Sugar, spice, and everything nice

These were the ingredients chosen

To create the perfect little dancers

But Professor Utonium accidentally

Added an extra ingredient to the concoction--

Chemical X

Thus, Wrenz Kaloogy was born.

Using their ultra-super powers

Aidan, Stephanie, and Jordan

Have dedicated their lives to fighting crime

And the forces of evil.

JA is the creative collective of Los Angeles natives Jordan Johnson and Aidan Carberry. Their split background of hip-hop, popping, and conceptual improv blended with contemporary, ballet, and theater give their work a unique ability to traverse various movement styles. In 2018 JA received first runner up at the Capezio Ace awards. Soon after, they began their role as creative directors for the band half•alive. Their recent collaborations with half•alive include various national music festivals, the ‘Now, Not Yet’ World Tour, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, and The Late Late Show With James Corden.  

What once was is now no more… PRINCIPIUM is a movement based theater piece choreographed by Scott Felix, Diana Valencia and Dominick Peterson; its story told through movement, sound and light.

Slauson Rec. originated in 2018 by Shia LaBeouf, Bobby Soto and Donte Johnson in the community of S. Central Los Angeles.  We are an unconventional, experimental, devised theater group. We write performance, not text. We develop cutting-edge material in-house, through improvisation, nonfictional acting, and collaborative group work. Slauson Rec. debuted a preview in June 2019 at our first annual Sacred Spectacle, followed by CONGRESS in August 2019.

 Photo Credit: The Work of Jar

www.slausonrec.com

Thursday, Friday and Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5pm

 PREMIERE: 15

World premiere
80 minutes

disclaimers - fog machine

Kicking off the company's 15th Anniversary Season, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company in partnership with Odyssey Theatre Ensemble presents PREMIERE: 15 featuring four world premiere works by: Roya Carreras, Alice Klock, Roderick George and WHYTEBERG. Don't miss this first look at brand new works by four refreshingly unique choreographic voices, and witness the captivating dancers of the company embody distinctly different movement vocabularies.  This engaging evening of work explores themes of motherhood, identity, growth cycles in the natural world, and the colorful characters and worlds of vintage video games. These new works kick off LACDC's 15th Anniversary Season - a celebration of history, growth, new ideas, and creativity.  The most important ingredient is our community - come share with us!

L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC) is a community-minded, non-profit repertory company devoted to the creation and promotion of cutting edge contemporary dance by Los Angeles artists.  LACDC has presented work at prestigious venues throughout L.A. including Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Broad Stage, Ford Amphitheatre, L.A. Theatre Center, Odyssey Theatre, Alex Theatre, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Broad Contemporary Art Museum, and Natural History Museum. Other notable performances include Lincoln Center (NYC), Kennedy Center (DC), Newman Center for the Performing Arts (Denver), ODC Theater (San Francisco), Laguna Beach Art Museum, and Palm Springs Art Museum.  The company has also toured internationally with sold out performances in Argentina and New Zealand. In 2018, LACDC was proud to be the first American headlining company to perform for Tempo Dance Festival in Auckland.  Learn more about our programming and opportunities to connect with the company at www.ladanceco.org    

Photo Credit: Taso Papadakis

Alice Klock trained at numerous ballet company schools, Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Alonzo King's Lines BFA program. She joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2009 where she danced until 2018. Alongside performing she has created choreographic work for Hubbard Street, Whim W’Him, Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, The Alonzo King LINES BFA, The Juilliard School, The Cambrians, Loyola University, Neos Dance Theater, Visceral Dance Chicago, and NW Dance Project's LAUNCH. She has been a winner of numerous choreographic competitions including Hubbard Street's International Commissioning Project, NW Dance Project's Pretty Creatives International Choreographic Competition, and Whim W’Him’s Choreographic Shindig. In 2017 she was named Hubbard Street's Choreographic Fellow and in 2018 was named one of Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch. She is Co-Director of FLOCK, a co-choreography company she founded with Florian Lochner in 2017.  www.klockonian.com

Roya Carreras is an Iranian-Hispanic artist, choreographer, and educator who works within commercial, film, and theatrical settings from New York City to Los Angeles. Her work challenges and unravels the depths of the female psyche, creating narratives that intertwine metaphor, magic realism, and memories from her childhood as a first generation American.  Carreras has created choreography and movement direction for Pussy Riot, Kiiara, Michael Blume, Jade De LaFleur, and Wolf Colony. On stage, Carreras’ work has been presented at the CURRENT SESSIONS, Dixon Place, Baruch Performing Arts Center, and The Green Building. In California, she has presented at Highways Performance Space, Electric Lodge Theater, Glenn Wallichs Theater, Diavolo, and BRAVA. Additionally, she was a resident choreographer for Columbia Ballet Collaborative of Columbia University.  Carreras holds a BFA in Dance from UC Irvine’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts.  Royacarreras.com

Roderick George was born and raised in Houston, Texas.  As a dancer, he has had the honor to perform with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Sidra Bell Dance NY, the Kevin Wynn Collection, the Basel Ballet/ Theater Basel, the GoteborgsOperan DansKompani, and The Forsythe Company.  He has had the great honor of working with choreographers such as Marie Chouinard, Peeping Tom, Jiří Kylian, Sharon Eyal, Ohad Naharin, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, and others.  Along with his talent as a dancer, Roderick found a passion for choreography from an early age.   As a young choreographer, he was selected as a Presidential Scholar for the NFAA ARTS competition and received an Honorable Mention for his choreography by the ARTS Association. Later, he showcased his work at Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in the DanceLab at Ballett Basel, and he was selected to be an Emerging Choreographer for Springboard Danse Montreal in 2013. Roderick was also nominated to be a choreographer and performer at the Emerging Choreographer Series for the Youth American Grand Prix.  He continues to use prior knowledge and experiences to not only improve his choreographic work but also his talent and development as a contemporary performer.  www.knonameartist.org

WHYTEBERG is a Los Angeles-based dance duo created by Gracie WHYTE and Laura BERG as a platform for their collaborative choreographic work. Since their inception in 2014, WHYTEBERG has performed and choreographed for film, stage, music videos and site-specific productions, working with prominent music artists such as Mac Miller, Anderson Paak, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Jacob Streilein, an Emmy-award winning animator. Gracie and Laura are most interested in figuring out how to blend disciplines and utilize non-traditional dance spaces, integrating dance into other genres of work to elevate and enhance the level of art being created. Choreographically, WHYTEBERG aims to be diverse in scope, utilizing dancers’ vast technical training while always maintaining a commitment to entertainment in an aesthetically relevant, youthful and engaging way. http://www.whyteberg.com/

Genevieve Carson is a director, choreographer, dancer, and educator originally from Juneau, Alaska who now resides in Los Angeles.  She is currently the artistic director of  LA Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC).  Genevieve’s work is focused on the human condition. She approaches her dancers as unique individuals, aiming to expose the beautiful vulnerabilities and idiosyncrasies that each performer possesses. Genevieve’s work has spanned across North America, the Philippines, Argentina, Sweden, and New Zealand. She has been commissioned and presented by the US Embassies of Buenos Aires and Auckland, ODC Theater, UC Santa Barbara, Musco Center for the Arts, Luckman Arts Complex, Laguna Dance Festival, Ford Theaters and others.  Commercial choreography credits include Foster the People, Superbowl XLIX, Adult Swim, and Comedy Central. Additional credits include the Emmys, Samsung, CottonOn, TEDx, and music videos for Blood Orange, Active Child, and Justin Bieber. Genevieve has been a guest artist at Cal Arts, Cal State Long Beach, University of Auckland, University of the Philippines, and more. She is currently on faculty at AMDA.  Genevieve graduated cum laude with a BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University.

Photo Credit: Taso Papadakis

Pastoral

February 7^th through February 9th

Friday and Saturday 8pm, Sunday 2pm

World premiere 

60 minutes    

The world premiere of Pastoral by choreographer Victoria Marks in collaboration with visual artist/designer Isla Hansen and composer Daniel Corral re-imagines “the frontier” depicted in dominant 19th- and 20th-century narratives about America. The cast of six performers, who have their own legacies of migration, replace old and frequently told stories with constructed, shared visions and cherished moments of connection.

Victoria Marks, an Alpert Award winner, Guggenheim and Rauschenberg Fellow, and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, has been practicing knowing and unknowing, making dances for stage and film, for the past 38 years. Marks’ creative work migrates between choreo-portraits and action conversations for individuals who don’t identify as dancers, and dances for dancers that fuel her inquiries into movement. Victoria is a professor at UCLA and serves as Associate Dean in the School of Arts and Architecture, and as the Chair of UCLA’s Disability Studies minor.

Isla Hansen is an artist working to reinterpret and complicate the relationship between the human body and technological progress. Her solo and collaborative installations, systems, and performances have been exhibited at the Akron Art Museum, the Columbus Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, the Hammer Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Center for Visual and Performing Arts, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. Isla has been the recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, the Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, and Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier grants from The Studio for Creative Inquiry. Isla has taught in the department of Design Media Arts at UCLA, and currently teaches sculpture, installation, and systems in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. 

Photo credit: Madeline Nobida