Founded in 1979, Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers will perform at 1:30 pm on Saturday March 29, 2025 at the Culver City Senior Center. The program will include “A Jewish Child’s Story” (2016), “Heart” (2024), and sections from Reichlin’s signature work “The Tennis Dances” (1979). Company members include Alana Astor, Carmen Tienda, Camille Imperial, Sophie Kim, Alice Lousen, Ashley Magana, Emily McGuire, Coree McKee Gonzalez, Mcknnly Moren, Louise Reichlin, and Brooke Sinton. Tickets and Parking are FREE.
Louise Reichlin & Dancers – “A Jewish Child’s Story” – Part I-The Roses On My Wallpaper- A Dream – photo by George Simian.
Reichlin writes: “A Jewish Child’s Story” is an autobiographical dance multimedia work reflecting my early dreams as the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants. It also incorporates research on the Holocaust and explores the connections to relatives I never had the chance to know. Through movement, storytelling, and multimedia, this performance bridges personal history with collective memory, offering audiences a deeply emotional and thought-provoking experience. Most of us come from families that are immigrants and can relate to it.” Watch Trailer: https://vimeo.com/285900988
Louise Reichlin & Dancers – “A Jewish Child’s Story” – Magician (duet in center of parts 1 & 2) – photo by George Simian.
A very short preview of HEART was performed last year at the Culver City Senior Center. Inspired by medical images of her own heart, Artistic Director/Choreographer Louise Reichlin created HEART Part 1 to explore our connected, hive-like universe, which is much like the heart itself. The exciting work returns with 4 parts. “The medical image of a pulsing image of a heart greeted the audience at the beginning of the piece, projected large over the poised dancers. The 6 performers begin with disjointed machinations and wordless vocalizations, which eventually lead into arcing and circling pathways, pulling each dancer into orbit as they interacted. The Dance distinguishes the individual dancers through personalized shapes and gestures while also wrapping them together with the use of mutual partnerships, lifts, and supports. This connection continued to unfold as the dancers evoked the ebbing flow of the pulsing heart while bleeding into different groupings.” (LA Dance Review). Watch Trailer: https://vimeo.com/986183966
Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers/Louise Reichlin & Dancers – “The Tennis Dances” – Photo courtesy of the company.
The program culminates with Selections from “The Tennis Dances”, the very first work of the company in 1979. Watch Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1061449690
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WHEN: Saturday March 29, 2025 1:30 pm
WHERE: Culver City Senior Center, 4095 Overland Ave, Culver City 90230
Tickets and Parking: FREE and open to the public.
Event Information: 310-253-6700
Dance company information: 213-458-3066
Written and compiled by Jeff Slayton for LA Dance Chronicle from Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers press release.
Featured image: Louise Reichlin & Dancers in Reichlin’s “Heart” – Photo courtesy of the company.
