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Los Angeles Times: "The recipient in April of a Lester Horton community service award from the local Dance Resource Center, Wolfe "is a one-woman institution," says George Lugg, associate director of REDCAT, the secondary theater at Walt Disney Concert Hall, which has become one of the city's major dance venues. "You might think she just knows how to maximize resources and make a bunch of different things happen, but really, these are multiple programming initiatives that all support the development of dance in Los Angeles and reflect a real understanding of the field."
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About Eleven Missing Days
Meg Wolfe/Show Box presents the premiere of Wolfe's Eleven Missing Days, plus work from exciting local and visiting guest artists...
July 3-6: Faye Driscoll (NYC) w/ Nikki Zialcita & Arianne Hoffmann (LA) w/ Kai Hazelwood
July 10-13: casebolt & smith (LA) & Sam Kim (NYC)
about Eleven Missing Days:
Doomed Love. Death. A Femme Fatale. Eleven Missing Days uses the stylized, low-budget world of film noir as a starting point in this contemporary dissection and chronicle of the theme of disappearance, up-ending the creative process itself.
Collaborators on the hybrid dance/theater/audio project include performers Jeremy Hahn, Rachel Lopez, Nancy Sandercock, and Rae Shao-Lan Blum; writer Mikki del Monico; and composer/sound artist Aaron Drake; with lighting design by JaNelle Weatherford.
The development of Eleven Missing Days is supported in part by an Artists' Resource for Completion grant from The Durfee Foundation; and by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures Hothouse Residency (2007).
week one guests:
Faye Driscoll will present 837 Venice Boulevard, which simultaneously pokes fun at and transcends the construct of identity using absurdity and some irreverence towards social stereotypes, to illuminate how exhausting it is to have to keep being "somebody" all the time. The performers play "themselves", an ultimately confusing acting job as they weave through manipulative relationships, dark childhood memories, funny but sad psychological breakdowns and intentionally bad dance routines. 837 Venice Boulevard explores the lonelier edges of the question; How dependent is who you are on how others see you? This duet danced by Faye Driscoll and Nikki Zialcita is an excerpt of an evening length work premiering at HERE Arts Center in New York in November 2008.
Arianne Hoffmann presents Doing by Undoing # 2 A score for a solo for two, a choreographer and a scribe, it requires spontaneous decision-making as one works with limitations, and produces a detailed inquiry into repetition, perception and process. With Kai Hazelwood as scribe.
week two guests:
casebolt and smith will present In Other Words. In Other Words uses a unique tactical blend of theatricality, intricately timed movement phrases and humor to illuminate how events, information, politics, and emotions are distributed and interpreted; all at a 2 foot x 4 foot table. casebolt and smith "have telepathic chemistry and they step into serious territory in In Other Words, a compelling political commentary...this powerful dance theater is destined for Youtube play around the world." (Kris Eitland, Sandiego.com)
In spite of dread horror of the solo form, Sam Kim engages herself in AVATAR a SOLO. There is no story. There is no arc. There are no overt references. They are eviscerated. There is one insistent body in the room––precisely felt in AVATAR.
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