| Our First Message of 2017- Louise Reichlin & Dancers |
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This new year so far we are teaching and performing in multiple schools and centers.
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| Come visit our company news page to see the details. We are excited to be a member of the Arts Community Network of the Los Angeles Unified School District and finishing a project at All People's Community Center.. Come read where! |
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From the Press about our Repertory
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Reichlin has created a wildly diverse and critically acclaimed repertory- described as "probing, provocative, deeply moving, uplifting, sensual, exciting, cinematic, joyous and great fun!"
(Los Angeles Times, Dance Magazine)
From "A Jewish Child's Story" Part 1, The Roses on my Wallpaper, a Dream
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Yellow Star
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Come see a dance/media work we are doing at the Orange County Dance Festival this Sunday, April 2. This is Part 2 of the work "A Jewish Child's Story". Part 2 video is in the beginning of this e-news. The link to the entire new work is
https://vimeo.com/202591422.
 Notes on Part II: Yellow Star, was originally part of Reichlin's early multi-media work The E-Mail Dances, first shown in 1997. A review described: "Yellow Star" grew out of Ms Reichlin's search, by geographical internet databases, for her Jewish roots. Her grand-parents, who came to the United States from Europe, never talked about the rest of their family who stayed behind. "Symbol of the Polish ghetto, the Yellow Star reflects Ms Reichlin's search by Internet genealogical databases for her Jewish roots. Seven dancers holding long wide strips of yellow-gold fabric, interpret stylized moves a la Fiddler on the Roof. Weaving and intertwining, they end the piece by sequentially placing the strips on the floor to form the six-sided star. At the same time, an overhead shot of the same dance is being projected on the rear screen. The combination of elements vividly evoked memories of the once vibrant culture and it's devastating demise. (Dance! 90210). Yellow Star was reworked and shown again in 2003- At a certain point, the image of the star begins to deconstruct (a previous shoot running backwards and worked on with a computer). In the original version, the piece ends with an empty stage, symbolizing the destruction of so much of the Jewish culture in Eastern Europe during the 2nd world war. In that version, the dancers reappear and begin dancing again as Reichlin looks around the stage, a more hopeful viewpoint with the memory kept alive. A review of that version: "Memory also enriched Louise Reichlin's and Michael Masucci's ...intense Yellow Star, which asked projected imagery to provide a conceptual overview - literally the larger picture of what the live dancers evoked: the horrifying history of Polish Jews in the 20th century." (The Los Angeles Times)
This part was revised as part of a Bruce Geller Memorial Prize in 2016.
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The OC Dance Festival has 16 diverse companies, and is from 6-9 pm on Sunday April 2.
Rose Center Theater
14140 All American Way,
Westminster, California 92683
http://boxoffice.printtixusa.com/rosecentertheater/eventcalendar
http://www.rosecentertheater.com/
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Videos of Louise Reichlin & Alfred Desio:
Please
contact us
if you would like more information about anything you see here.
Sincerely,
Louise Reichlin, Director
Louise Reichlin & Dancers/LA Choreographers & Dancers
A Jewish Child's Story photos by George Simian
Patchwork Girl photo: Sallie DeEtte Mackie
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