Ever visit Target in Westfield Culver City and stop dead in your tracks thinking Is that a huge, purple question mark lying on its side? It is, and who can…
They say all good things must come to an end, but of course we wish our Duck Truck Residency Program at St. Mary’s Academy could continue infinitely! After six weeks…
Image by Sean Deckert On March 2nd, we wrapped up our fourth year of the Duck Truck Residency Program at El Sereno Middle School with a final performance by Ms.…
Whether you're a serious site-specific dancer, or a mover looking to expand your repertoire, our upcoming choreography workshop, Animating the Landscape is sure to have something for you! Taught by…
Our 1967 Kountry Aire trailer is a site-specific classroom-on-wheels, by its nature suggesting themes of movement and travel. Yet as our world advances around us at an increasing speed, the…
Photo by Andrei Andreev Over the course of this month, we’ll reflect on our past work, and how we use dance as a tool for sparking introspection, conversation and rumination…
Our intern Andrew hard at work editing some of our backlog of dance performance footage! Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is thrilled to host another fabulous Seoul Institute of Arts student…
While we're ten days into 2017, we haven't swept away our favorite moments from 2016. This week and next we'll recap some of our favorite accomplishments from last year. Today,…
This year we had the pleasure of bringing site-specific dance education to over 400 youth and seniors in the LA area— many of whom had no previous dance and/or arts…
On Saturday, October 8th, we opened When I Am King in Chinatown's King Hing Theater. Once a vibrant cinema, the now abandoned projector rooms, box office, and vast theatrical expanses…
When we at Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre celebrate our 31st year with our gala, The King Hing Thing next month, we're excited to honor the work of two extraordinary people:…
Sean Santhon, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's LA County Arts Commission summer intern, wrote the following blog post. Santhon majors in dance and political science at the University of California, Los…
This Saturday (June 25th! 8pm!), we’ll premiere our project, Night Market. We started the process six months ago, when we interviewed vendors and staff of Central Wholesale Market (the produce…
If you follow Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre on Instagram (and we hope you do!) you may recall us posting some shots of interviews we were filming at Central Wholesale Market…
Post written by Experience Director Allegra Padilla. This past Saturday (5.21.16) Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre wrapped up its Outpost project in Antelope Valley. We hosted Outpost: A Sign of the…
Editor's note: Over the last six months Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has had the pleasure of working in the Antelope Valley community as part of Los Angeles County Arts Commission's…
Image by Sean Deckert This summer, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will premiere Night Market—a piece based on the biographies of workers at Downtown Los Angeles's Central Wholesale Market. Over the…
As part of our Outpost: A Sign of the Times project, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will be hosting two community workshops for the Antelope Valley. Our first workshop, Visioning Our…
That's Mollie on the right, her students in Seoul on the left! It's the last day of National Arts Ed month, and we're going to introduce you to one more…
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is lucky to have creative and talented teaching artists bringing site-specific dance to students around Los Angeles. Deidra "Krucial" Cooper-Jenkins is one of those teaching artists.…
In continuing with our Arts Ed posts, we wanted to introduce you to another member of our teaching artists team, Shantel Urena. Shantel's first experience with Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre…
As we mentioned yesterday, it's National Arts Ed month. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the values behind the dance instruction we bring to neighborhoods around Los…
It's National Arts Ed month! What better time to introduce you to our teaching artists? These men and women work out in the field (and by field, we mean schools…
Photo by Sean Deckert This Sunday (March 6, 2016) Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will present 'Outpost: A Sign of the Times' (performance details below). We're expecting a great crowd for…
Post by Allegra Padilla, Experience Director Antelope Valley is known for the beautiful desert landscape, the aerospace industry and often times for being a place that is just far enough…
This is the very first post of our new Experience Director, Allegra Padilla! We look forward to more updates from Allegra in 2016! Last week, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre’s Duck…
We met Trudy, 87, at Hollenbeck Palms Continuing Care Retirement Community. She was born in Philadelphia and raised in the Lower Eastside of New York City. She moved to Los…
Happy Thanksgiving! As we indulge today in turkey, mashed potatoes and pie, we're also counting all the amazing experiences we've had throughout our 30th year! Here are five highlights. Five…
As we head into the holiday season and towards a brand new year, the staff of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is taking time to reflect on 2015 — the experiences,…