Concept & Choreography by Loretta Livingston
Dance Performance
This stunning new work by Livingston encompasses themes of memory and departure, love and separation, the ghosts and whispers of recall. Featured dancers from Loretta Livingston & Dancers: Alyson Jones Cartagena & Heather Gillette, with guest artist Amy Sennett Starner.
International Guest Artists: Dr. Sam-Jin Kim, choreographer, and Tammy L. Wong, choreographer and dancer, from Singapore. Plus an extended cast of emerging southern California dance artists.
Tickets for this event are $5.00 General Admission, FREE for Library Associates, payable at the door, cash only.
Loretta Livingston is an award winning choreographer and dancer. She is the Artistic Director of Loretta Livingston & Dancers, a contemporary dance performance ensemble. She produces and directs works ranging from large scale dance/theater evenings to improvisational events with live music and video art presented in gallery-sized spaces. In addition to creating projects for her company she takes choreographic commissions, creating work for dancers as far away as New Zealand and Turkey. A fifth-generation Californian, Ms. Livingston began her career with another native westerner---the legendary Bella Lewitzky. She danced for ten years in the Lewitzky Dance Company, performing throughout the United States, Europe and Canada.
Ms. Livingston has received numerous awards and honors, including the 2003 Artist Award from the California Dance Educator's Association, the 2002 California DanceMaker Grant from the James Irvine Foundation, and the 2002 City of Los Angeles C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship. In addition to her individual awards, her company and artistic collaborators have received many Lester Horton Dance Awards in Los Angeles for the performance, choreography, music and design of her projects.
