Dance and dance-related events including The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series, which presents a wide variety of performances, workshops and newly commissioned projects, featuring both local and national guest artists, as well as presentations by CalArts students and faculty.
Past 06/07 Dance Events:
October 25-29, 2006
Betontanc: Wrestling Dostoevsky

This high-velocity dance theater work from the internationally acclaimed Slovenian ensemble tells a compelling tale of love rich with passion and violence, accompanied by a zesty live music performance | Click here

November 19-20, 2006
Studio

The quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has served as a creative laboratory for Los Angeles artists | Click here

December 15-16, 2006
CalArts Dance

The resident ensemble of the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance presents its 27th annual showcase of the innovative new dance works created in collaboration with distinguished visiting choreographers and performers | Click here

February 7-10, 2007
RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE:
ONE SHOT: FIRST GLANCE

The internationally heralded choreographer marks the 20th anniversary of his company with a dazzling new work inspired by the life and art of African American photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris -- famously known as "One Shot" | Click here

February 18-19, 2007
Studio

Experience new works by emerging Los Angeles artists curated by William Flores and Lionel Popkin | Click here

March 1-4, 2007
OGURI AND HONEYSUCKLE
CADDY! CADDY! CADDY!

Butoh master Oguri and Zen artist Hirokazu Kosaka -- two of the most original creative forces in Los Angeles -- come together once more in a dark new dance and media work that transmutes the mythic power of Faulkner’s fiction into exalted physical form | Click here

April 5-8, 2007
Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group:
The Tale: Npinpee Nckutchie and the Tail of the Golden Dek

Acclaimed choreographer Reggie Wilson explores intimacy and devotion, libido and love in a seamless collage of music and dance | Click here

April 14, 2007
Gamelan Burat Wangi: A Night in Paradise

The premiere Balinese music and dance ensemble in Los Angeles, Gamelan Burat Wangi (“Fragrant Offering”) presents a selection of new works for gong kebyar -- the most virtuosic and expressive iteration of Balinese orchestras | Click here

April 15-16, 2007
Studio

The third installment of the quarterly program for new experimental performance works and works-in-progress | Click here

May 11-12, 2007
CalArts Spring Dance

The annual spring celebration of innovative dance from The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance | Click here

June 1-2, 2007
Dance Camera West
Screendance: New Visual Language

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, the festival showcases the most innovative examples of dance for camera and dance media from around the world | Click here

June 23, 2007
Dance Camera West
Thierry DeMey: Dance films featuring William Forsythe and Anne Teresa DeKeersmaeker

Focusing on the intersection of cinematography and choreography, the festival showcases the most innovative examples of dance for camera and dance media from around the world | Click here

July 19-21, 2007
New Original Works Festival: Program One

The three-week NOW Festival launches with a program of three works that are founded in movement, but varied in their approaches. Mason's Hip-hop moves and spoken word, Luyten and Alker's precise and poetic dance-theater, and a new music and dance collaboration from Tijuana-based Lux Boreal and Pedro Gabriel Beas of Nortec Collectivec | Click here

July 26-28, 2007
New Original Works Festival: Program Two

NOW Festival continues with two new works that employ technology, media and unique stagecraft: Heidi Duckler, "the queen of L.A. site-specific dance-performance" (Los Angeles Times), responds to REDCAT's performance space. The collaborative team of Lars Jan, Jane Pickett and Bureau V generate layers, both literal and psychological, in a work of operatic complexity, but without the singing | Click here

August 2-4, 2007
New Original Works Festival: Program Three

NOW's final program delves into the darkly evocative worlds of three decidedly different projects. Fjellestad's sonic abstractions are delicate compositions of noise. Kelly & David's mini-epic, three-act opera of cursed wanders warps American folk. And Iova-Koga's exquisite post-butoh performance stares deeply into the void that precedes birth | Click here

October 25-28, 2007
Faustin Linyekula: Festival of Lies

REDCAT is transformed into a bustling cabaret for this groundbreaking work by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula, one of the foremost artists in contemporary African dance. Part dance theater, part art installation and part community event | Click here

November 29 - December 1, 2007
Degenerate Art Ensemble:
Cuckoo Crow

Barrages of frantic avant-garde music blend seamlessly with inventive Butoh-inspired movement and intense physical theater in this rich, multilayered production from Seattle’s high-octane experimental group | Click here