Dance Resource Center, the service organization that is the hub and voice for Greater Los Angeles dance, is pleased to announce the third programmatic year of HOME GROWN @ Bootleg. Six choreographers from LA County will share their new work during two performance weekends at Bootleg Theater, running March 2-4 and May 3-5, 2017. The choreographers participating in the March production are Nicole Berger, Artistic Director of COMPANY RHOME; Shirine Rehmani, Artistic Director of Roots and Wings Dance Project; and Katerina Tomás, Artistic Director of Mojácar Flamenco. The May performances will include Brigette Dunn-Korpela, Artistic Director of B. Dunn Movement; Sophia Kozak, Artistic Director of Critical Mass Dance Company; and Zoe Rappaport.
HOME GROWN @Bootleg is an initiative of Dance Resource Center that elevates the presentation of local dance through a collaborative production model and brings audiences together to experience diverse choreographic voices in LA's stellar dance community. Selected through an application process, three participants in each weekend run share the program performing for three-nights. To prepare for the show, participants receive production/tech oversight; marketing and audience engagement support; dramaturgical feedback; administrative assistance; and rehearsal time and space.
The program provides a production opportunity for independent choreographers and dance companies to partner with DRC, Bootleg Theater and fellow dance makers to mature their work and its presentation. Choreographers share the stage and stretch their artistic development beyond limited showcase/festival formats and have the exceptional opportunity to bolster production skills and attract dynamic audiences in a collaborative and supportive environment.
Each performance weekend at Bootleg Theater offers a unique opportunity for audiences to experience three dance makers who typically would not share the stage, presenting more than a teaser of their work. An evening at HOME GROWN @ Bootleg can encompass a range of genres from tap, ballet, flamenco, jazz, and hip-hop to contemporary dance.
HOME GROWN redefines notions of the "do it all yourself" mindset that is pervasive in LA's performing arts landscape. In addition to performance opportunities, HOME GROWN also offers choreographic residencies.
All performances take place at the Bootleg Theater, 2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door; 10% discount available for students, seniors and DRC members. Visit
www.bootlegtheater.org/theater to purchase tickets in advance.
ABOUT 2017 HOME GROWN @ BOOTLEG ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK
MARCH 2-4, 2017 at 7:30PM
Nicole Berger is an award-winning choreographer for stage, film and television in Los Angeles, California. She is the Artistic Director for COMPANY RHOME, a Contemporary Ballet Theater Group that makes dances for the stage and screen; creating work based on familiar human stories that are inspired by images from iconic literature and classic art. Nicole started her career in New York as a soloist and assistant choreographer with Dendy Dance and Theater. With Mr. Dendy, she worked with the Radio City Rockettes and director
Julie Taymor at The MET Opera. She has performed in major motion pictures, indie films, primetime television shows, and international stage productions. Nicole has choreographed for many TV shows, most notably VEEP, PARKS and RECREATION and HAPPY ENDINGS. She is currently choreographing for FOX's hit comedy, BROOKLYN NINE NINE and NETFLIX's LOVE. Nicole has been commissioned to create dances by Santa Monica College, AMDA, The
Joyce Theater Foundation, DanceNow, and The Djerassi Foundation.
www.nicolebergerchoreography.com
"Dancing with Dust" is a collection of memories. On a morning bored by cartoons, Lilly, Nicole's three year old started playing with particles of dust in a beam of light shining through a door. Watching her child experience this for the first time, she realized it was a memory that they both now shared. The piece is about love, joy, heartbreak, and wonder...all the milestones in our lives that last for seconds and then disappear. Set in a stark industrial office, dancers slowly lose their bureaucratic and structured nature as they look back through their piles of memories instead of just filing them away.
Shirine Remahni is from Orange County, California and has been dancing for over 18 years. She graduated from UC Irvine with a BFA in Dance Choreography and a BA in International Studies. She has five years of experience choreographing. While at UCI, she presented her own original works for department concerts and produced her own evening-length thesis concert. In August 2015, she was selected as one of four LA-based choreographers to present work at the Breaking Glass Project, an organization that supports emerging female choreographers. She works with the non-profit organization, Movement Exchange, traveling to Panama to teach dance at the university and orphanages as well as doing local dance outreach in her local community. Since graduating, she has been a dancer in Elke Calvert's company, The Fyber Vision, and Josh Romero's company, FUSE Company Inc. She presents her own work as the Artistic Director of her project-based
Dance Company, Roots and Wings Dance Project.
www.rootsandwingsdance.com
"Play Small Piece" explores human relationships like a puzzle. This piece investigates how human beings relate to one another, their surroundings, and to themselves. The dancers embody the beauty, complexity, and often the pain of the relationships we encounter in our lives. Every puzzle piece matters to reveal the image.
Katerina Tomás, Artistic Director of Mojácar Flamenco, has studied flamenco and modern dance since childhood, and is an award winning flamenco soloist, a popular dance teacher, and a choreographer in southern California. She performed flamenco most notably with Rosa Montoya's Bailes Flamencos in San Francisco. As a modern dancer, she studied and performed with the legendary dance master
Lucas Hoving in his professional
Dance Company in San Francisco. She toured throughout the U.S., in Canada and in Spain as a flamenco soloist, and received numerous grants for her work as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and scholar of Spanish arts and culture.
www.mojacarflamenco.com
"Romance Sonambulo" combines the power and passion of flamenco with the rich expressiveness of contemporary music and dance. Based on the Gypsy Ballad of
Federico Garcia Lorca, the piece features composer/guitar virtuoso Stephen Dick, and exceptional artists drawn from flamenco, contemporary modern dance and opera.
May 3-5, 2017 at 7:30PM
Brigette Dunn-Korpela is an educator, choreographer, performing artist and the founder and Artistic Director of B. Dunn Movement. Her educational credentials include an MFA in choreography from the California Institute of the Arts Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance and a B.A. in dance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Currently, Brigette is an Assistant Professor of Dance in the department of Kinesiology at California State University, Northridge. She is an innovative artist who explores viscerally authentic approaches towards creative self-expression. Her performance credits include the first national U.S. tour of The Lion King. She has performed works by choreographers
Ronald K. Brown, Nathan Trice,
Donald McKayle and
Katherine Dunham, to name a few. Brigette is also a former member of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. She has appeared in performances at the Kennedy Center,
Brooklyn Academy Of Music, New Jersey Performing Arts Center,
Aaron Davis Hall, and the Gomhouria Theatre of the Cairo Opera House, Egypt.
www.bdunnmovement.com
"Distorted Realities" is a dance/theatre collaboration with six performers directed and choreographed by Brigette Dunn-Korpela. This work seeks to investigate the human condition and hyper-normalization of human apathy, silence and sanitized violence. "Distorted Realities" is in direct response to the current social climate of increased human indifference, deafening silence of human compassion and political lunacy.
Sophia Kozak is the Artistic Director of Critical Mass
Dance Company (CMDC) fosters holistic community health, diverse women's leadership, and positive social change through its performances and healing movement programs. CMDC works to support healing and transformation of people and the planet through its black light dance theater shows and movement education. CMDC recognizes that dance is not only a creative aesthetic and captivating performance art, but also a healing art. Dance is also a powerful form of heARTivism that can transcend borders that divide places; dissolve the illusion of separation that divides people; and build conscious unity across our global community to create a world at peace with itself.
www.criticalmassdancecompany.org
"Arco Iris: The Rainbow Bridge" is a story about breaking down walls, building bridges with love, honoring our ancestors and celebrating our diversity. CMDC's signature black light dance theater combines dance, flow arts and aerial arts. Using illumina
Ted Wings, ribbons, costumes and more, "Arco Iris: The Rainbow Bridge" brightens the stage, uplifts the spirit and inspires the imagination. This family-friendly show is appropriate for all ages.
Zoe Rappaport is a dance-artist who creates work in New York and Los Angeles. She has worked with renowned choreographers Adrienne Hawkins,
Jimmy Locust, Sarah Elgart, Mecca Vazie Andrews,
Kathryn Posin, Billy Siegenfeld and Thelma Goldberg. Zoe has been awarded grants from Brooklyn & Queens
Arts Councils to direct and produce site-specific, multidisciplinary, genre-bending work grounded in the transformative power of art. She has performed at venues such as The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LaMama Experimental Theatre, Dance New Amsterdam, Figment Arts Festival and The Hatch Shell. She received her B.A. in Community-Based Arts Education from New York University and has been working with youth in the arts for the past 10 years. Zoe is the Program/Artist Manager for 4C LAB, teaches for The Gabriella Foundation and is currently working with Dominique Robinson to establish Dance Gap Year, the first gap year program for dancers.
www.rappaportdance.com
"You Cannot Stay On The Summit Forever" is a dance work for anyone with revolution in their dreams and rebellion in their spirit. It is for those who have experienced the complexity of the heart - full of its contradictions, complications, chaos and beauty. The dance is in honor of her late father,
Neil Friedman, a civil rights activist/anti-war revolutionary who dedicated his life to social justice, equality, freedom and love.
Dance Resource Center is the hub and voice for Greater Los Angeles dance. DRC promotes the visibility and viability of Greater Los Angeles dance on local, state and national levels. DRC welcomes all professional dance companies, makers and stakeholders of all genres, organizational formats, and perspectives. Just as Southern California fast becomes the most diverse region of the U.S, DRC seeks to represent and include dance forms and voices reflecting LA's rich socio-cultural mosaic.
www.danceresourcecenter.org
Photo courtesy of Zoe Rappaport
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