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Reality Series "The Shampoo" "Los(t) Angeles" "Identity"
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CONTACT: LOUISE REICHLIN 213-385-1171
Event: The Reality Series "The Shampoo" "Los(t) Angeles" "Identity"
Louise Reichlin & Dancers/LA Choreographers & Dancers
in the premiere of their new interactive dance/multimedia series.
Where: Madrid Theatre
21622 Sherman Way, Canoga Park CA 91303
When: Saturday, May 10, 2008, 2 performances @ 2:00 and 7:00 pm.
Tickets: $25, $20 general, $20, $15 DRC/senior/student
Box Office: 818-347-9938. Also sold on line: www.culturela.org/madridtheatre/tickets.html
Additional Information or group sales: 213-385-1171 (LA C&D)
About: Do you dream of performing on stage with a dance company? Come to a performance of Louise Reichlin & Dancers and you might get your chance. "The Reality Series" is an interactive dance/multimedia work based on parts of our lives that we often don't pay too much attention to. Each will use members of the audience either as volunteers, or to propel the work as it unfolds on stage. Also on the program are Selections from "The Tennis Dances", some not seen since 1999.
Web site: www.LAChoreographersAndDancers.org
(click on Current News & Performances)
See videos on YouTube.com/LouiseReichlin
"THE REALITY SERIES"
Do you dream of performing on stage with a dance company? Come to a performance of The Reality Series and you might get your chance. On Saturday March 10, 2008, Louise Reichlin & Dancers, a performing company of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers, presents the premiere of their new interactive concert called "The Reality Series" with two performances at 2:00 and 7:00 pm at the Madrid Theatre. The work uses ubiquitous ideas, objects, and movement that can go unnoticed in order to raise our awareness of the world around us. Each of the three pieces for the current performance uses members of the audience either as volunteers, or to propel the work as it unfolds on stage.
"The Shampoo": Company director Louise Reichlin asks the audience, "Who wouldn't mind getting their hair wet?" as hairdresser Lynn Campbell stands by in her black smock near a sink basin ready to simulate a shampoo. A member of the audience receives a hair wash as the dancers explore the feelings of sensuality and energy created through the tactile experience of hair, bubbles and water. The piece brings to consciousness the latent feelings of sensuality, freedom and comfort present in a simple salon shampoo.
"Los(t) Angeles": Although it's technically one city, LA's diverse cultures spawn innumerable perceptions and realities, often dividing the city along multiple lines, as with the recent immigration protests. Dancers recruit audience members to explore modern hip-hop and traditional ethnic dance forms, while others are content to watch. Through this process, the disconnectedness between the cast, the audience members participating and those watching mirror many of the realities of one of the most diverse cities on Earth. "The highlight (of a recent preview in San Pedro) was Los(t) Angeles, whose twists and turns, its mixing of styles tastefully arranged to display the ethnic diversity of Los Angeles, allowed the dancers to display their many strengths and audience members to display their enthusiasm." (Lynn Warech, Dance Reviewer, Random Lengths)
"Identity": Have you ever received spam email asking you:
to buy the willing wife?
to save a dying man?
to sponsor a queen?
to trust an assassin?
to free a doomed mistress?
to make a deal with an entrepreneur?
to hide money for a soldier?
Director Louise Reichlin was inspired by some of the creative appeals she actually receives, and this work is both a dance and an interactive identity mystery. The audience discovers clues and controls movement themes between shadowy dancers, working together to strip away identities and layers of realities in order to solve the mystery. The piece was developed in collaboration between Reichlin and the dancers with the content humorous, frightening, and touching.
Now moving into its 28th year, Louise Reichlin & Dancers was founded in 1979, using the non-profit base of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers. LA C&D has presented both Reichlin's company and Zapped Taps(tm)/Alfred Desio and has a long history of creating works for families, as well as educating children and youth. The company tours to many LA, Santa Barbara and Orange County schools, is a 2004-08 member of the LAUSD Arts Community Partnership Network and has worked with the Arts Prototype Program since its inception. It has ten programs featured on the LA County arts resource web site, www.LAArtsEd.org. Some of Reichlin's other well-known works include "The Tennis Dances", "Celtic Suite", "Urban and Tribal Dances", the multimedia "The E-Mail Dances" and "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" and the choreography for the cirque-music show "Dream Scapes". Louise Reichlin & Dancers has taken these works to 14 states and Mexico. Earlier this season "The Reality Series" began at the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center with an interactive site-specific piece presented both indoors and outdoors involving both dance and the architecture of the historic building known as The Stone House.
Director is Louise Reichlin. Media collaborator is Carol Gehring. Featured dancers include Karla Hagen, Anaja Holloway, Tamara Kagel, Sung-Yun Park, Stephanie Simpson, Salinee Vanichanan, Teya Wolvington, and Alexandria Yalj. Guest Flamenco artist is Batista Gremaud.
The Madrid Theatre is located at 21622 Sherman Way, Canoga Park CA 91303. It is a facility of the City of Los Angeles operated by the Department of Cultural Affairs. Tickets are $25, $20 general, $20, $15 DRC/senior/student. Purchase tickets on line: www.culturela.org/madridtheatre/tickets.html or call Box Office at 818-347-9938. More information & videos on our web site www.LAChoreographersAndDancers.org. Videos also on YouTube.com/LouiseReichlin.
Funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Also the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. The production is also made possible in part by a grant from Friends of the Madrid.
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