FAST-RISING LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANIES CATCH ME BIRD AND INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE JOIN FORCES TO PRESENT “YIELD TO WHIM”
Yield to Whim
WHO: Contemporary dance companies Invertigo Dance Theatre and Catch Me Bird
WHAT: “YIELD TO WHIM” performances at The Hollywood Fringe Festival
WHERE: International Dance Academy, 6755 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028
Validated parking at the Hollywood & Highland Lot
WHEN: Saturday, June 19, 6pm and 8pm
Sunday, June 20, 6pm and 8pm
(2 shows per day)
TICKETS: http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/project/view/242
INFO: http://www.invertigodance.org/performances/fringe.html
CONTACT: Nehara Kalev, [email protected], 323-632-1968
On June 19 and 20 at the International Dance Academy on Hollywood Blvd., Invertigo Dance Theatre and Catch Me Bird come together for the first time to present a shared evening of innovative new dance theatre. In the intimate studio theatre at IDA, “YIELD TO WHIM” invites the audience into a world of athletic, theatrical, whimsical dance.
Invertigo Dance Theatre (Artistic Director, Laura Karlin) presents Descent of the Docent, in which a museum guide takes the audience through a tour of a modern dance piece. “The piece takes a playful look at how we understand and interact with art, in particular that big scary field of contemporary dance,” said Laura. “It addresses a seemingly ever-present fear that we don’t ‘get it’ when we see contemporary dance. What is so great about ‘it’ exactly?”
Descent of the Docent combines athletic dance with an irreverent sense of humor, a real-life LACMA docent and program notes which include suggested reading and a bibliography. The docent also happens to be Laura’s mother, Fiona Karlin, who has worked at LACMA for 14 years.
CATCH ME BIRD (CatchMeBird.com) presents “Anvil”, a sneak preview of their full-length Ford Amphitheatre premiere on August 13.
Equal parts reality show and high-powered contemporary dance, C. Derrick Jones and Nehara Kalev (CATCH ME BIRD) transform the ups and downs of relationship into an artistic journey, which began with their performance wedding.
Anvil is inspired by the 6th wedding anniversary element of iron, and named after the block with a hard surface where the hot metal is placed and then beaten into shape. As the husband-and-wife team forges ahead with the absurdity of performing their real-life relationship onstage, they negotiate the shifting dynamics between public spectacle and personal reality. “Year by year we comment upon the issues relating to marriage and deep intimacy by blurring the boundaries between our offstage and onstage lives,” said Derrick. “Iron, like 6 years of marriage, is heavy and stable – it must be heated to brutally high temperatures in order to change into a long-lasting cohesive form,” added Nehara.
Jones & Kalev explode the boundaries of art and life with aerial spectacle, verbal sparring and madcap humor – taking you to the heart of a marriage that redefines strength in a union between two equals.
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