Above are the dancers and Louise in audience Q&A end of June concert and below in-between The Better To Bite You With school shows. They included Mcknnly Moren, Coree Mckee Gonzales, Emily Mcguire, Eve Metsaranta, Louise Reichlin, Jill Collins, Jestina Mundy, Kaitlyn Mckinney. In other photos here are Katie Mcculla, Jamil Morgan, Stevie Teran, and not pictured Natalie Ellis who returned for Tap Dance Widows Club.

We are making an IN REVIEW VIDEO with excerpts from our year, but this is the WORD & IMAGE E-NEWS VERSION with more specifics, so stick with it for details.

In the beginning of 2022, we were still partially virtual in our performances, but with live teaching; finally in February we started scheduling live performances. (Almost 2 years after the City of Los Angeles shut down). On the morning of our first at a school- Limerick Ave El) one of our dancers arrived with a newly received Covid19 test, POSITIVE, and all returned home. But we rescheduled, and that started culminations from teaching and performances at that school, Richard Riordan PC & French DL, and Dayton Heights El.

Below are our dancers in the Santa Barbara school tour and a photo from the Animal Dance from The Better To Bite You With in our LAUSD performances. The final photo of a live dancer lifted in front of the Patchwork Girl video is from our Moving At the Madrid film that combined our live dancers with performances from the past.

In March and April 2022 we fulfilled a live residency for the City of Carlsbad with our film/live dance Tap Dance Widows Club, and plunged into rehearsals for the reimagining of Urban and Tribal Dances, a suite of 6 dances originally created 1990-1992. The plan was to use the video of Alone 2020, created that year with all of us isolated connected and shooting only on Zoom, the video shoot of Batida and Together recorded by Devin Schiro at the Ivy Substation in Culver City, and performance LIVE Wedding and War.

Both War and Wedding were reimagined with significant changes due to a now more inclusive climate and the reality of another war in Ukraine. For this section we commissioned new mask headdresses from Feliz McInnis called "WAR" unSeen.

Remembrance of so many that are still dying from war and disease was performed live. Closing the program was a LIVE performance of Reboot! Reboot! originally shot as a video/film in 2021 with Nathan Kim as DP, and finally edited by Andrew Zutta in early 2022. Opening the program was Brandenburg from Tap Dance Widows Club.

The June Ivy Substation performances was for us a creative success, although again running up against Covid and having to replace one of the dancers in one day. We were pleased to have three performances at the wonderful Culver City theater. The house crew even allowed two additional dogs in besides one that was a Seeing Eye/Service dog- all well behaved!

We also performed Reboot! Reboot! at the HHII Festival in Santa Barbara, staying in the area for a tour to three schools.

Above- Our dancers at the Center Stage Theater entrance for the HHII Festival.

-Artist Feliz McInnes at rehearsal with a first look at her masks.

Below- performance of Brandenburg at the Ivy Substation.

-Company Director Louise Reichlin

In early July I was one of two subjects (the other was a visual artist) of a student film by young filmmakers Miguel Moreira & Constance Ebienfa on Creativity. I am so aware that every job or work I do is because I am blessed with this and my parents emphasized and supported this area. It is one of the primary reasons we work with so many underserved young people in schools. The arts offer the students an anchor of personal expression, a source of motivation, and a model to deal with life, developing their imaginations and feelings to communicate who they are, empowering them. In our school residencies they also learn choreography that they perform with us, the company, at their culmination. They get to know us and we become part of the same community!

In July I received a Commission from the Dept of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles Dance Worker Coalition. It was to focus on a specific place in the City Council District where we reside or work, and I featured the Madrid Theatre. Producing at the Madrid in Canoga Park has figured into the development of a number of our 100 works.

Then came the annual San Pedro Festival of the Arts, this time is a new location- Peck Park. Although a little nervous about a shooting that had happened recently, we loved the park, and will return there next year. For this one we featured 18 companies, including 14 professional and 4 super high level community.

All LIVE school residencies in the fall included Vintage Magnet where we worked with primary grades, 61st St, and Crescent Heights Social Justice and S.T.E.A.M. Magnet ES. The performances were both outside and inside, including our "Dance! with LA CHOREOGRAPHERS & DANCERS" and "The Better To Bite You With", which we hadn't performed since 2014. In December, as part of the LAUSD Acceleration Day we joyously performed 7 shows in 2 days at Cowan El and Braddock Dr. El and started the research for our Tap Dance Project on Zapped Taps (tm)/Alfred Desio pictured below.

And as we finish 2022, we are in rehearsal for Reboot! Reboot! that we are performing as part of Booking Dance Festival NYC at Jazz at Lincoln Center on the evening of Jan 13, free for presenters. For those of you attending the APAP conference, we hope to see you there.

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We hope to continue to share our dances and teaching with other areas, and new funds from you can also take us to any location in LA and much further. We are thrilled that we have just been awarded a new state Performing Arts grant for non-profit companies, new and renewed Education and Organizational grants from the CA Arts Council, Festival & Education funds from the DCA City of LA, an arts grant from Culver City Arts and Organizational from LA County Dept of Arts & Culture. When you donate you help supply the needed matching funds so we can receive these grants! Donations also support the San Pedro ♥ Festival of the Arts. Please visit our website and write in amount to make your donation. 

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Thank you again-

Louise Reichlin, Founding Artistic & Managing Director, Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers

Executive Producer, the San Pedro Festival of the Arts