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For our Friends, Audience, Louise Reichlin & Dancers

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Happy 'Between Holidays' Wishes

Something for Friends, Audience, Presenters, Funders

A personal message from me

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LA C&D presents soulful, imaginative dance that takes audience members on their own journey of self-discovery.

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Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers creates and presents innovative dance works with imagination, feelings, and communication being the inspiration for every piece. Whether presenting a concert performance or enriching the lives of LA area students through arts education, we believe that our work sparks imagination, creativity, self-discovery, and empowers our diverse audience members to expand their understanding of life.

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Please come visit our new website. It was designed and created by Eric Sommerfeld as a Taproot+ project, with a concept presented by Nancy Hytone Leb as part of a CA Arts Council grant project. Writing is by Louise Reichlin with additional by Kelly Peters. The wonderful photos are from 39 years of company history. And Board Member Al Lesser was inspired by that one and redesigned our TriartSP.com site.

A personal message from me-


Early Earthen (1980)

Louise Reichlin here.

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.

And Coming up 2019!

Please save these dates for us and come see:

Sunday March 3 at the HHII Festival in Santa Barbara, we will be doing excerpts from "The Tennis Dances" that are rarely shown, and that were seen here last in LA back in 2015. ("One of Louise Reichlin's most effective works is her signature piece, Tennis Dances, which is a unique dance that is almost cinematic in its effects. She creates on stage the illusion of long shots, montages, quick cuts, and individual close-ups that are usually seen only in the film or video media." DanceMagazine)

Sunday April 7 at the Culver City Senior Center (free) through a grant from Culver City. We will be doing "Tap Dance Widows Club" ("The interweaving of past and present, of distinctly different worlds through both video and dance, made this piece not only unique, but deeply touching." ExploreDance)

On Saturday, May 4, we will be producing our own concert (location in LA to be announced) with the entire historic "The Tennis Dances" and our 2 newest works "Invasion" and "A Jewish Child's Story" which has never been shown with both parts 1 and 2 here in Los Angeles.

Also- many residencies at schools-also to be announced.

SO PLEASE CONTINUE TO BE OUR FRIEND, AUDIENCE, PRESENTER, AND FUNDER SO ALL THIS CAN CONTINUE!!!

Your support keeps us moving!

Our non-profit Tax ID is 95-3509028. Only several Days left for this year!

We want 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. If you donate, you can help us get to your location!! You will also help us match the grants below. Please visit our website and write in amount to make your donation.
If you prefer to send a check, please mail to LA C&D, 351 S. Virgil Ave, Los Angeles CA 90020.

You can also support us when you shop. #StartWithaSmile at smile.amazon.com/ch/95-3509028 and Amazon donates to Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers Inc. All the same prices. And don't forget about your company's matching gift program.

Thank you again- Louise Reichlin, Artistic Director