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CalArts Winter Dance: Repertory/Trajectory premieres TONIGHT. Ticket link in bio!! Dec. 4, 2020: 8:30pm PST Dec. 5, 2020: 4:00pm PST... Featuring new work from renowned choreographers and CalArts Dance faculty Holley Farmer, Rosanna Gamson, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Spenser Theberge, and sam wentz. CalArts Winter Dance: Repertory/Trajectory will imagine new dances in new forms through new technologies. Through an immersive, digital performance, dancers will chart personal and shared histories with fresh insights through cutting-edge cartographies and the lens of their own bodies. Repost from @spensermyles HEREHEAR, created in collaboration with the wonderful cast of dancers, premieres tomorrow as part of the Winter Dance Concert by @calartsdance and @calartsredcat . You don't want to miss this beautiful, timely show, AND you can watch from anywhere so helloooooo! Get comfy and join us!! Ticket link in bio! Big congrats to all the dancers, production team, and the brilliant choreographers (@ymsorzano @sam__wentz @rgww_dance #robbieshaw #holleyfarmer). #virtualperformance #calarts #calartsdance #redcat #losangeles #performance #dance

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Fall 2020 Intermission Concert!! Please join CalArts Dance for INTER MISSION, the mid-day extravaganza created by our BFA Dance students. Meet the great new talent, support your friends, grab a delicious sandwich and watch a dozen short and impressive new works on Tuesday, November 10th at 1:30pm PST. Home-made, locally sourced, artisanal, dance works with no artificial sweeteners. Ticket Reservations are required and free! Reservation LINK IN BIO. ... #calarts #calartsdance #virtualperformance #register #linkinbio #studentchoreographyshowcase

Don’t miss this incredible virtual Winter Dance concert THIS Friday and Saturday!! Link in bio to reserve your tickets! Repost from @calartsredcat Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4-5, @calartsdance will celebrate its annual CalArts Winter Dance Concert with an ambitious, multi-track, online experience presented in partnership with REDCAT.... Synthesizing the embodied memories of faculty and students, 2020’s concert will imagine new dances in new forms through new technologies. Join us for an immersive, digital performance charting our personal and shared histories with fresh insights through cutting-edge cartographies. Presented virtually for the first time ever, this year’s CalArts Winter Dance Concert will bring together dancers from around the world (Cyprus, Germany, Japan, Peru, Russia, Taiwan, and all across the U.S.) and feature new works from five renowned choreographers currently on faculty with CalArts Dance: Holley Farmer, Rosanna Gamson, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Spenser Theberge, and sam wentz. Grab your tickets at REDCAT.org! #calartsredcat #REDCATondemand

CalArts Winter Dance: Repertory/Trajectory!! Dec. 4, 2020: 8:30pm PST Dec. 5, 2020: 4:00pm PST Presented virtually for the first time ever, 2020’s CalArts Winter Dance concert brings together dancers from around the world for an immersive, digital experience.... Featuring new work from renowned choreographers and CalArts Dance faculty Holley Farmer, Rosanna Gamson, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Spenser Theberge, and sam wentz. CalArts Winter Dance: Repertory/Trajectory will imagine new dances in new forms through new technologies. Through an immersive, digital performance, dancers will chart personal and shared histories with fresh insights through cutting-edge cartographies and the lens of their own bodies. This event is virtual, streamed through the REDCAT website. Link in bio!! Poster design by Marshall Wang

During this time of high stress and fragmentation, The Conscious Dancer which takes place on Saturdays from 10:00-11:15 a.m. will be open to all of the dance school on a drop in basis for the remainder of the semester. It is a guided class that uses fairly minimal screen time to facilitate rest, movement, meditative, and somatic-based experiences as a means for building a grounding practice that connects one to self and the present. If you would like to join, please email [email protected] by the Friday evening before you're thinking of taking class for the zoom link. #calarts #calartsdance

Live Virtual AUDITIONS for CalArts BFA Dance Program kick off this Fall! December 19th 2020 - 10:30 AM (PDT) January 9th 2021 - 5:30 PM (PDT) January 23rd 2021 - 10:30 AM (PDT)... REGISTER NOW AT http://apply.calarts.edu/portal/danceauditions (LINK IN BIO) #calarts #calartsdance #calartsauditions #register #virtualauditions

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CONGRATULATIONS to CalArts Dance faculty members, Spenser Theberge and Jermaine Spivey, on their premiere of The Betweens on LA Dance Project tonight!! And another wonderful CalArts Dance Faculty member, Yusha Marie-Sorzano, is performing in this work! Don’t miss this incredible drive in performance in downtown LA the next couple weeks. Get your tickets through the link in @ladanceproject bio. Repost from @spensermyles Tonight is the night!! The premiere of THE BETWEENS ...(and it's sold out run!) is finally happening at @ladanceproject . A huge, huge thank you to the cast (@ymsorzano , @david_adrian , @nomievb , @2marsnback ) and the LA Dance Project team for your patience and resilience. Continuing to problem-solve and reimagine performance with you all had been a great source of inspiration and joy. To @maxwell_transue and @gahyae_r for the incredible original composition and sound design, and to @69us for the devine costumes, thank you thank you thank you. And to @jamsvy , as always, thank you. I love making work with you, even when we disagree, even when it's hard. Sharing something that's truly a blend of all of us involved in the creation is more than worth it. Love to you all, and TOI TOI TOI!! (Photos 1-3 by @joshsrose and photo 4 by @lorrinsees ) #dance #performance #contemporarydance #ladanceproject #driveindances #losangeles See more

Interested in CalArts Dance?! Join us for our first ever virtual Open House September 26 and October 24!! Registration link in bio. #calarts #calartsdance #openhouse #calartsopenhouse

Check out this amazing project choreographed by Dean of Dance, Dimitri Chamblas, featuring CalArts Dance faculty members Spenser Theberge and Jermaine Spivey! Repost from @dimitrichamblas ... @ugg with artist sis @clairetabouret choreographer @dimitrichamblas dancers @jamsvy @spensermyles film director @manuela_dalle image @vventurella producer @jeanjean.martin @jaywalking.art photos @fredericauerbach thanks @lucienterras Familly team .. so much fun ... See more

Repost from @spensermyles. Check out this incredible project choreographed by CalArts Dance Director @dimitrichamblas UGG x Claire Tabouret. Nothing better than getting to play dress up with @jamsvy . Thank you to the team for inviting us into this beautiful work! Directed by @manuela_dalle , choreographed by @dimitrichamblas , video production by @jeanjean.martin @jaywalking.art , and photography by @fredericauerbach #dance #ugg #art

We are honored and excited to welcome Yusha-Marie Sorzano to the CalArts Dance Faculty for the upcoming 2020-2021 year! Originally from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Yusha-Marie Sorzano has been a member of Ailey II, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Morphoses, TU Dance, and BODYTRAFFIC. She has performed as a guest artist with LA Dance Project and is currently a member of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. As a choreographer, Ms. Sorzan...o has created works for Santa Barbara Dance Theater, New Century Dance Project, and The Ailey School. She was a part of the creative team for NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar, the recipient of the Alvin Ailey Foundations New Directions Choreography Fellowship and a National YoungArts Foundation Artist In Residence. She is currently a research fellow at the New York Public Library Performing Arts Division and Co-Artistic director of Zeitgeist Dance Theatre, a new concert dance company launched in 2020. YUSHAMARIESORZANO.COM See more

Premiere of a brand new work by CalArts faculty members @spensermyles and @jamsvy on @ladanceproject!! Get your tickets today! Link in their bio. Photography by the wonderful @joshrose Repost from @spensermyles @jamsvy and I are thrilled to share our new work, THE BETWEENS, for @ladanceproject 's Drive-In Dances series starting September 17th. This work was made in collaboration with the performers (@ymsorzano , @nomievb , @2marsnback , and @david_adrian ) and composer @ma...xwell_transue with costumes by @69us . We're HONORED to join forces with such amazing artists and can't wait to (responsibly and safely) share this work with you! Ticket link in bio, and more about THE BETWEENS below. This project began as an investigation of the possibilities for performance, in both body and site, during the Covid era. As our conversation around this deepened, the words placement, replacement, and displacement became increasingly present. There’s an inherent relationship between these words, and it’s liminal and ever-changing slipping in and out of, adapting to, and accommodating different states of being. This liminality has been at the heart of our process, and itlead us to this central question: How do you maintain a sense of self when you’re constantly placed, replaced, and displaced? Through this process, we aim to explore, perform, and reframe this question as a representation of this never-ending reorientation of self and site. #calarts #calartsdance #ladp #ladanceproject #joshrose #spensertheberge #jermainespivey

CalArts faculty member Brigette Dunn-Korpela is a 2020-2021 CultureHub Resident Artist! Congratulations, Brigette! Read about her incredible career and what she plans to create throughout the residency below: Brigette Dunn is a choreographer, artist, educator and the Artistic Director/Founder for B. Dunn Movement. Her work is informed by ritual, intuition and traditions rooted in African-diaspora cultures and embodied narratives of race, masked identity, systemic legacies of ...erasure, colonization and commodification of black and brown bodies. Brigette creates visceral and multi sensory performance experiences that challenge legacies of cultural biases and norms of hegemony. Her choreography has appeared at KCRep ("For Colored Girls), The Geffen Contemporary @MOCA, REDCAT, Aratani Theatre, Bootleg Theater, Multicultural Arts Center Cambridge, and Mobius. Brigette currently serves on the dance faculty at CalArts, where she also received her MFA in choreography. ECHO: Immersive Experience is a collection of modular vignettes that weave together the narrative of the kidnapping and enslavement of tens of millions of African bodies during the TransAtlantic Slave Trade. During the residency, EIE will be developed into an immersive experience with live performance combined with AR/VR technologies. EIE unpacks legacies of cultural trauma and gives context to modern experiences of race and how the violence of history has echoed through time. It is a story of survival, told eloquently and with reverence by those whose ancestors survived the journey. BRIGETTE DUNN-KORPELA

Congratulations to Maraya Performing Arts Founder, Anjanette Maraya-Ramey (Dance BFA 04), Francesca Penzani (Dance MFA 99, Faculty), and Jonathan Frederickson (Dance BFA 06) on presenting a one-week virtual summer dance intensive! Sunday, August 16-Sunday, August 23, 2020 While Maraya Performing Arts is based out of San Diego, CA All classes will take place via Zoom For more information and registration, please visit: https://marayaarts.com/classes/dance-classes/... The intensive will emphasize contemporary dance technique, dance making, site specific choreography, and dance for camera. #CalArtsAlumni #CalArtsFaculty #ArtistProfessionalDevelopment #CalArtsDance #calartssummer

CalArts Dance Summer 2020 Lecture Series ends the season with Charles Atlas, pioneering filmmaker and video artist. Charles will discuss his work of bringing together dance, performance and media and will offer a Q & A. Tuesday August 11 at 12 PM Pacific Open to CalArts Dance students, alumni, and faculty! ... Charles Atlas is a video artist and film director who also does lighting and set design. He is a pioneer in developing media-dance, also called dance for camera. Media dance is work that is created directly for the camera. #charlesatlas #calartsdance #calarts #calartssummer See more

We’d like to invite you to our Summer 2020 Dance Intensive. As we continue to navigate the current health and safety guidelines due to the Covid19 Pandemic, we will be offering this summer intensive as an online, remote experience. This workshop is open to incoming and current CalArts dance students and is free of charge! This week-long intensive will be held Monday, August 17th - Friday, August 21st, 10am-3pm PST, daily. ... REGISTRATION LINK IN BIO. Reserve your spot today. Space is limited We’d like to introduce you to our final faculty member: Jermaine Spivey! Jermaine Spivey will explore defining Technique as a progressive understanding of coordination, paired with but not exclusively governed by form. If you can make informed observations about why and how your body functions, then you can develop articulate responses with greater clarity and detail. From a choreographic standpoint, I would like to use our time together to begin framing this ‘technique' into compositional structures centered around language and its faculty for framing perspective and interpretation. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Jermaine Maurice Spivey is an educator, choreographer and an award winning performer working in the field of Dance since 2002. He has spent the bulk of his career traveling throughout the United States, Canada and Europe teaching workshops, performing and staging works by artists such as Crystal Pite, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Hofesh Shecter, William Forsythe and Swedish singer, songwriter and producer Robyn. His most recent choreographic commission, Terms And Conditions (2019), was premiered by Rambert 2 at Sadler’s Wells in London, UK. Jermaine has also created and performed two evening length works with ongoing collaborator and partner Spenser Theberge entitled, Rather This Then (2017) and Position 3 (2018), the later co-created and performed with filmmaker John De Menil, with support and co-production from Navel LA and CalArts Dance. #calarts #calartsdance #calartssummer #jermainespivey