I was going to use a current photo- but I sometimes feel like the photo of me on the left from a dance called "Early Earthen" from our very first full season in 1979-80. I actually feel like that again when I am narrating one of our school performances, or on-stage for one of our narrated pieces like "A Jewish Childs Story" or "The Patchwork Girl of Oz" (see  YouTube.com/LouiseReichlin or Vimeo.com/LouiseReichlin.

This past season we had 48 performances for 18,614 people, and when you include our workshops for students and teachers, the number served comes to 26,683, with 19,620 of those youth. We have to keep track for something called SMU Data-Arts that our grants applications request. We had residencies at 22 schools with ages ranging from pre-K through 12th grade. More than 18,000 attended our classes and performances for free, paid for by grants and master contracts, much of it matched by you reading this. So a big thank you to both. And also a big thank you to presenters that helped us perform in both indoor theaters and outside festivals. Some locations outside our city include Santa Barbara, Temecula, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, and closer to home Culver City. The works performed included all those listed - 

"Invasion", "The Patchwork Girl of Oz",   "A Jewish Child's Story", "The Tennis Dances", "Tap Dance Widows Club".  

We also included a multicultural dance from three cultures in Culver City for Seniors, and although people think of us as bringing it to schools, the interactive work started out as the last piece for our general audience when we premiered "Urban and Tribal Dances" many years ago. 

Louise Reichlin & Dancers burst into the public eye in 1979 with their first performance at the Anson Ford Theatre when "Reichlin created a sensation with "The Tennis Dances" (Dance News). Over the years she has continued to examine our society from its most primitive nature to the emergence of the information age with "The in 1996. Through multiple performances for the 23rd Olympiad, a summer series at the LA Zoo, touring the US and Mexico with "Dreamscapes". Reichlin has consistently created "probing and provocative" works. (Dance Magazine)

This year we performed all of the works above except for "The Better to Bite You With" and will be adding that in our school residencies by the end of this season as well again including the complete 30' "The Tennis Dances", and "Tap Dance Widows Club"  in concert. For this  we will be performing these larger cast works and adding dancers.