LEVYdance Los Angeles Premiere
reserve your tickets at www.levydance.org
WHO: LEVYdance
WHEN: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
TIME: 8:00PM
WHERE: Henry Fonda Theater (The Music Box)
6126 Hollywood Blvd (Between Argyle and Gower. Parking available)
Los Angeles, CA 90028
After a sold out East Coast Tour to New York, Washington, D.C, and Philadelphia, LEVYdance will be making it's Los Angeles debut at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood on April 1st, 2009. The company will be bringing four exciting new works performed by its "fresh-faced, chiseled dancers with the urban cool of club kids" --San Francisco Chronicle.
The program will consist of Physics, wake, Cirrus and Nu Nu. Physics uses a high level of athleticism to explore phenomena such as inertia, gravity, and centrifugal force, and how they relate to the human body. The piece is performed to a commissioned score by renowned DJ and electronica composer, Mason Bates. wake is an intimate duet that uses a limited physical vocabulary to communicate the intricacies of human interaction. Cirrus, set to a mix of early and contemporary music, explores the intersection between the divine and mundane. Nu Nu is a pop dance explosion in mesh tops, tiger-striped unitards, and leg warmers. “Nu Nu’s fast-paced mix of clowning, glamour-puss posing, and blossoming and breaking relationships was clever, smartly paced, and unpretentious.”— San Francisco Bay Guardian.
ABOUT LEVYdance:
"Athletic and Lyrical, Brainy and Sexy.." Dance Magazine
"Talent: You’ve got it or you don’t. And from the start of Benjamin Levys precocious choreographic career, it’s been clear this guy has serious gifts." San Francisco Chronicle
"LEVYdance is a company to watch now and in the future." Washington Post
Founded in 2002 by Benjamin Levy, Artistic Director, LEVYdance is based in San Francisco, where it manages its home studio. The company exists to ignite its audience’s awareness of a shared human experience through the art of dance.
In its history, LEVYdance has given performances in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Seattle, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Kaunas, Lithuania and San Francisco. In addition to regular performances, the company sustains a comprehensive education program, including master classes and residencies at Universities, a summer intensive for college and pre-professional dancers, and a children's program for ages 3 - 10. LEVYdance has been awarded funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, Dance: Creation to Performance program, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, and administered by Dance/USA, The Creative Work Fund, The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the David and Laura Merage Foundation, the Joyce Theater's Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work, Target Stores, The San Francisco Foundation, The Zellerbach Family Foundation, USArtists International, and Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA, for collaborations with acclaimed artists such as French couture designer Colleen Quen, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, industrial designer Rick Lee, composers Keeril Makan and Mason Bates, and Kronos Quartet.
Tickets now available. Visit www.levydance.org for more information.
