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TRIP Dance Theatre "hallucinatory music, fertile moves and seductive lighting... stunningly danced..." "The performances were akin to a psychedelicized union,
a mind-blowing journey into the aural and physical."
"...Monica Favand, artistic director of TRIP Dance Theatre, could very well be the 21st century's answer to Martha Graham."
Los Angeles based TRIP Dance Theatre was formed in 1996 by artistic director/choreographer Monica Favand and music director/composer Charlie Campagna. The company offers cutting-edge, contemporary dance and music performances, classes for professional and aspiring dancers, and the “Sacred Spaces Workshop”, a community based improvisational dance workshop with live music offered weekly since 1999. TRIP Dance Theatre's concerts are journeys through multi-media landscapes of contemporary dance, alluring video/slide imagery, innovative costume/set design and multi-textured, original /live music. Company members training in ballet, Balinese dance, African dance, Butoh and contemporary modern dance styles such as Wigman and release technique fuse with backgrounds in theatre and martial arts. The amalgamation of these trainings is a primal yet precise style of movement rooted in the power of the body to communicate. TRIP has created 11 evening length works and offered more than 100 performances in numerous venues including the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , John Anson Ford Amphitheatre , UCLA's Armand Hammer Museum , the Skirball Cultural Center , John Armstrong Theatre and Highways Performance Space . TRIP has performed in four nationally/locally syndicated live telecasts as part of KCET/PBS's annual Holiday Celebration program. The company has powerfully touched audiences and earned numerous Best Bets in the LA Weekly and the Los Angeles Times as well as a slew of positive reviews. Loretta Livingston and Dancers Loretta Livingston & Dancers is a contemporary performance ensemble based in downtown Los Angeles. Artistic Director Loretta Livingston is a choreographer and performer with a commitment to artistic collaboration and discovery. She has developed creative processes that are both rigorous and playful, regularly working with composers, designers, video artists and visual artists. She and her dancers work together to create set choreographies and improvisational performance events, typically with live music and video art. The company works on a project basis, with a core group of five or six dancers, plus musicians and video artists. New works are premiered in southern California. Performance venues for the company range from large to intimate. Locations have included the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in East Los Angeles, the Japan America Theater in Little Tokyo/downtown Los Angeles, as well as intimate spaces such as the Luckman Art Gallery and the Mark Taper Forum Auditorium in the historic Central Library of Los Angeles. As an individual artist Loretta Livingston takes choreographic commissions and travels as a guest artist both nationally and internationally. Prior to forming Loretta Livingston & Dancers in 1984 with her husband/partner David Plettner, she toured internationally for ten years as a dancer in the Bella Lewitzky Company. A fifth-generation Californian, Ms. Livingston chooses to live and work in the landscape of the West and the urban environment of southern California. The Furious Theatre In 2001, Furious Theatre Company incorporated as a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and began the search for the right scripts to produce--and a theatre in which to present them. After numerous letters and phone calls, we were led to the City of Pasadena and The Armory Center for the Arts. They generously granted us the use of a 9,000 square foot section of Armory Northwest, a former plastics factory. In February 2002, we began converting the raw warehouse into an alternative performance space. Risers were constructed, the lighting grid hung, and stage curtains built, all by our ensemble. On April 26, 2002, we opened the U.S. Professional Premiere of Saturday Night at the Palace by Paul Slabolepszy. In the 12 months following our debut, we produced five plays: three U.S. Premieres, a West Coast Premiere and a contemporary classic. These productions earned 6 NAACP Theatre Award nominations (winner Best Supporting Actor, Best Director), two LA Weekly Award nominations, and numerous critic's picks from the Los Angeles media. The company also received The Pasadena Arts Councils' Gold Crown Award, a special Debut Award from Back Stage West, and we were named "Best New Theatre Company" by the Pasadena Weekly. In September 2003, the City of Pasadena reclaimed the Armory Northwest. After a 13-month search for a new home, the Pasadena Playhouse granted the company a 4-year residency at the Balcony Theatre, the Playhouse's 99-seat second stage. Visit our Web site for our current season information. WordSpace Wordspace is a writing studio for classes, events, explorations and development in the heart of Los Feliz. Wordspace creates time and space for development of new words that redefine text and spoken word for old and new audiences. Wordspace aims to create and promote exciting, innovative, accessible, high quality & surprising new works through creative collaboration between writers, staff and the community. Wordspace places education and the opportunity for growth at the centre of all of its activities. Wordspace strives to reach new audiences by recognizing new voices, current issues and community concerns and creating new performance works through creative collaboration. The core function is providing space for creative development and collaboration while developing partnerships between writers and producing organizations. Worspace is located at 4649 Russell Avenue. |
