Our First Live Performance (and a few Streaming)

Coming on May 8 - our first LIVE performance

The Patchwork Girl of Oz Streaming Apr 28, '21 for 2 weeks along with an informal chat with four early cast members

Urban and Tribal Dances Extended thru Apr 30, '21

School Residencies

& Free Virtual Streaming of The Patchwork Girl of Oz at vimeo.com/showcase/thepatchworkgirlofoz April 28 - May 12

Free streaming extended of Urban and Tribal Dances vimeo.com/showcase/urbanandtribaldances

Our last 2 school residencies, a virtual performance of The Patchwork Girl of Oz streaming with an informal chat with four inspirational early cast members.

We are doing the final virtual performance for the dance residency at Melvin Ave El, have 2 more at Broadacres El next week, and on May 8 is our first live performance in over a year at the Orange County Dance Festival.

With the opportunity to present a free performance in co-ordination with one of our school residencies, we are delighted to invite you to an award-winning narrated production of The Patchwork Girl of Oz performed at the Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library. This was the first performance after Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers returned from the revised shorter version first performed in No Carolina in 2016.

Special thanks to our funders for the school residency and this streamed performance and informal chat who include the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, the CA Arts Council, the LA County Department of Arts and Culture, and the Arts Office of the LA Unified School District.

The photos surrounding this announcement come from our informal chat and a series of performances of the piece- at the Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles Public Library, the Crooked Magician, the Patchwork Girl and a young fan from a festival parade in No Carolina, Louise with the student Champion Hoppers and a bow from our first New York performance at the Long Island Children's Museum and another from the student Joking Horners from a past Culver City performance at the Ivy Substation.

The link to The Patchwork Girl of Oz on our website is: https://lachoreographersanddancers.org/concert-performances/repertory/patchwork-girl-of-oz/

Excerpts from

dis-located is the live performance on Saturday May 8 at 7pm as part of the Orange County Dance Festival.

Where: Rose Center Theater, 14140 All American Way, Westminster, CA 92683

Tickets: Purchase at https://rosetheater.booktix.com/cart.php

Event general information at https://rosetheater.booktix.com/view/13/d83f699a7a0bf69f/

For a complete press release of this dance click here. Performing are Jill Collins, Eve Metsäranta, Katelyn Martin, Caitlin M Heflin, and Artur Aleksanyan.

We consider ourselves Essential Workers, not only because we are preparing all our concert work by recording it, but also because the arts and dance are essential for inspiration and centering, and although studios and gyms and theaters are just reopening, we are still here and streaming what we do. And very excited to be performing live again. Please come see!

A few minutes of excerpts - the first is from our family programming beginning with The Patchwork Girl of Oz, with the newer Patchwork Girl streaming from April 28 to May May 12. There is also a touch of The Tennis Dances and Dream Scapes, both earlier works. The second is from Urban and Tribal Dances, that ends its extended streaming on April 30, with description following and the second from early clips of The Patchwork Girl of Oz and our family programming.

The link for the current project streaming is vimeo.com/showcase/urbanandtribaldances.

The four videos in it include:

Feature presentation- Urban and Tribal Dances
Alone 2020
Remembrance (Media)
About Production_Conversation with the artists

This project is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Culver City Arts Foundation. Additional funding is from the California Arts Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. We hope to add you to those making it possible.

Photos are mainly from that streaming, but we hope to have many new photos from the performances of Excerpts from dislocated.

Photos include Urban and Tribal photos: Alfred Desio and Theodora Litsios. The Tennis Dances photo: Taso Papadakis. The Patchwork Girl/ Ojo photos: Sallie DeEtte Mackie,

A New Urban and Tribal Dances

Urban and Tribal Dances was created between 1990-1992.

Urban and Tribal Dances is about people of present, past, or slightly future time in an urban setting. The 6-part suite was to be revived at the Ivy Substation in Culver City this past July, but it was cancelled with the Pandemic lingering for months. It was just one in a series of cancelled performances. We have just added 3 more reimagined and recorded earlier in December 2020. The critically acclaimed Urban and Tribal Dances now has a Virtual Cinematic version using both the original material and new material created for filming.

Virtual residencies at schools this year

Usually we have about a dozen schools in the fall, but the Pandemic is severely limiting the LAUSD's arts programs with the Arts Community Network (ACN) and we are grateful for educational funds from the CA Arts Council. Please help match our current residencies at Melvin Ave and Broadacre Elementary where we returned with new programs (virtual of course). If you are interested in our Virtual educational programs- here is the link.

If you are part of the LAUSD, we are also part of the new Partners For Student Success (PFSS), and we did our first school in the new semester Jan-March at Amanecer Primary Center. Please check the LAUSD for funding help in this new area. And if you can help to fund more residencies- this is one of our top needs. DONATE HERE!

Our Company Mission and Website connection

Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers presents soulful, imaginative dance/theatre/multimedia works that take audience members on their own journey of self-discovery.

See our web-site for information on our concert repertory with works for general & dance audiences, and for Family Audiences. Read about our educational programs for youth, and even with the Pandemic served more than 15,720 young people this past year. Our special projects including producing the San Pedro Festival of the Arts (virtual version just finished) and the Southern CA Dance Directory. Bring us to your venue, whether in Los Angeles, in the US, or abroad. Or Virtually!

Some links to our 2020 EPK including reviews

To our reviews

To a list of 100 works- Louise Reichlin

To a list of works & reviews - Alfred Desio & Zapped Taps

Special thanks to our supporters! Your support keeps us moving! DONATE NOW!!

Additional thanks to all of the County Supervisors for allocating a portion of the federal COVID-19 funds for arts and culture and for the LA County COVID-19 Arts Relief Fund Grant administered by the LA County Department of Arts and Culture.