Repertory & Gallery
_3.jpg)
Paul Hastings Tower, 51st Floor, Los Angeles, CA
In the opulent former ARCO headquarters on the 51st Floor of the Paul Hastings Tower, Cleopatra, CEO. interwove the gender biased myths and propaganda associated with the icon Cleopatra, or femme fatale of the east, with the male dominant corporate lineage of the oil men of the west. Between the incredible panoramic views of downtown to Cesar the stunt-man, this multimedia performance challenged ideas of desire and power.
A vacant lot in Glendale, CA
For the second of the Expulsion Series, four athletic male dancers from HDDT collaborated with five female dancers from the Iranian-Armenian Djanbazian Dance Company to initiate an open dialogue about the fragile nature of home and the universal experience of being forced to leave it. Upon Architect Alex Ward's industrial set three stories above the audience, the dancers brought the vacant space to life, while being accompanied by Alex Noice’s original score. With support from Glendale Arts, HDDT presented Expulsion in downtown Glendale to hundreds of people. Additionally, the company was honored to be a part of the World Festival of Sacred Music 2011.
[spf:a] Gallery, Culver City, CA
“A Trace of Lipstick,” which expresses themes of shifting relationships among couples, is performed amongst the existing furniture of the gallery. The audience views the work in the round, giving it a voyeuristic character. Inspired by the TV series “Mad Men” and the hypocrisies of the early 1960’s, the choreography explores duplicity, intimacy and the compartmentalizing of private lives.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Laurel Hardware Space, West Hollywood, CA
A multimedia dance theatre work, ”A Gallerina's Guide,” explores the relationship between artist, audience and the walls of a gallery space. Recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts' Artistic Excellence award, this tech-induced, sensory is a living art show and interactive exhibit that explores real opportunities for engagement with contemporary art. With the audience listening on infrared headsets, live performers in oversized frames expose the mysteries of the Nude, the action of Still Life and the kaleidoscope of Color Field. Experience a slightly wicked tale of how art exists on and off the gallery walls!
Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Governing Bodies infused the world of politics and public affairs with contemporary dance, in a performance designed specifically for Los Angeles’ iconic City Hall, a Historical-Cultural Monument built in 1928. Performances took place in City Hall’s stunning Byzantine-style rotunda, continued through the hallways and the City Council Chambers, and concluded at the Spring Street steps and Romanesque forecourt. Governing Bodies celebrated the democratic process by involving the audience in a work that focuses on both the Los Angeles arts community as a whole, and the strength and power of the artist’s individual voice.
Palace of Culture on the Volga, Yaroslavl, Russia
In August 2010, Heidi Duckler premiered a new site specific work commissioned by the Link Vostok International East-West Arts Exchange in celebration of the Yaroslavl’s 1000th anniversary as the dance company celebrates its 25th anniversary. The work was performed in the Palace of Culture and is inspired by the life of Yaroslavl resident, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman cosmonaut who travelled in space in 1963.
Ehrlich Residence, Venice, CA
Natural Causes was created in collaboration with video artist Joan Perlman. This environmental installation explored the dichotomies of culture and nature, the wild and the tame, risk and safety, and natural and unnatural states of being. Video projections of moving water were displayed on the walls of the home’s interior space to create an immersive environment during the dance performance. These multilayered images of flux and flow transformed the structure, with a focus on the unique geometry of Nancy Griffin and architect Steven Ehrlich’s home.
Culver Center for the Arts, Riverside, CA
Commissioned by the University of California, Riverside Culver Center for the Arts, Running Commentary was a duet that placed two dancers, one in each glass cube, longingly attempting to connect. They begin separated, distant, and enact a series of movements to attempt to communicate, despite the glass that divides them. As the piece develops, they eventually find a way out and embrace, becoming one while melding with the architecture and façade.
Spin Cycle Laundr-o-mat, Historic Fillipinotown, Los Angeles | 2010
Le Superwash Coin Laundry, West Hollywood, CA | 2008
Laundromat, New York City | 2006
Launderland, Culver City, CA | 1998
A reprise of the company’s signature work which, in 2010, was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as an American Masterpiece. Laundromatinee first delighted viewers and washday customers at Thriftiwash Laundromat in Santa Monica in 1988. The show was reprised for Launderland in Culver City in 1998, in 2006, at the Sitelines Festival in NYC, receiving a rave review in the New York Times and in 2008 in the City of West Hollywood. This work celebrates the local coin-op as a community gathering place, a once-common neighborhood fixture that in recent years has been falling prey to urban gentrification.
A vacant lot in Cambodia Town, Long Beach, CA
The first of the Expulsion Series, this collaboration between Khmer Arts Academy, Long Beach Arts Council, and HDDT enlivened the heart of Cambodia Town in March 2010. Based on themes of migration and displacement, Expulsion explores the temporary, and often fragile nature of "home." Alex Ward of lxw design created the three story set, which was constructed of industrial scaffolding, while Alex Noice composed the original score. Expulsion Long Beach melded traditional Khmer and contemporary Western dance to collectively tell the two culture's "expulsion stories" through performance.
