The company has been awarded its third two-year grant from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission! The support is for bringing a half hour program of dances to LA coffeehouses--much like our 2007 season at the Synergy Café and Lounge in Culver City. Dancers Sara Fenton and Louie Cornejo will present their Lester Horton Award-winning duet Slip Knot along with solos White Guy Swell Dance (for Duke) and Test.
Keith’s been selected to join a group of twelve local artists and organizations to participate in Help Desk/LA. Created by the New York service organization Pentacle, this project aligns a non-artistic mentor to each participant as she/he navigates the waters of organizational stability. Keith’s been matched with Los Angeles Stage Alliance Executive Director Terence McFarland to address audience development and other infrastructural needs. Bound to be a forward-moving experience for all!
Highways Performance Space will co-present the third installment of Four Headed Dance with us in the spring. Envelope-pushing choreographers Ilaan Egeland Mazzini, Carmela Hermann, Arianne MacBean and Keith are creating new pieces that will premiere April 2-3. More details to come! |
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The two June performances of Far From Home at Highways went BEAUTIFULLY! Pat Payne’s installation caressed viewers as they walked to/from the theater to the 18th Street Arts Center and ALL of the Saturday night show is now viewable 24/7 online! Future live performances are in the planning stages, so stay tuned!! |
Last month, the company was awarded its third consecutive grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to perform in local senior centers. We took Big Small Dances—solos and duets—to the Boyle Heights and El Sereno Senior Citizen Centers on May 14 to welcoming audiences there. The viewers were very responsive and we helped the El Sereno Center celebrate Mothers’ Day, with mother and daughter Margarita and Gloria Tinajero dancing a version of Mariachi, with Sara Fenton performing White Guy Swell Dance for Duke, Louie Cornejo performing Test and the two of them reprising their award-winning Slip Knot. The centers invited us to come back next year, so we’ll see how the things go!
In March, Keith was awarded a chunky Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant from the Durfee Foundaion to support our upcoming season at Highways in June. The evening length Far From Home isthe culmination of four years of work and is NOT TO BE MISSED! |
Commissioned by the Newport Beach Arts Commission, Keith has been working with seven members of the center there to create a new work, Dancing with Ghosts. The piece includes photos from the performers’ ancestry (going back to the early 1900s), oral histories, music and movement. Also on the program will be the award winning Slip Knot and White Guy Swell Dance (for Duke). The latter dance is a solo from the evening length Mavericks, which toured coastal California 2001-3. However, for this and some future performances, the solo is performed by an awesome woman (Sara Fenton)!
Completing the program is the duet Keith’s been working on during the summer with veteran performers Alan Grant and Christina Gray. This work explores Alan’s current range of movement, almost a year after he unexpectantly suffered a stroke. The true performer that he is, the limitations did not slow down Alan’s desire and love of performing. The working title for the piece is Left and music is culled from the in-progress drafts of Sergio Cervetti’s 2005 score for Audacious. A truly riveting dance! |
| Choreographer Keith Glassman was honored with a prestigious 2007 Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement for Revival, Reconstruction, Restaging of Slip Knot at the annual award ceremony in Echo Park April 27, 2008. Nominated by a jury of local experts and voted on by the membership of The Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles, the 1994 work was recently performed in Culver City and Santa Monica with additional performances scheduled for 2008-9. Having premiered at Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks series before Keith relocated to Los Angeles, this new version is beautifully performed by dancers Sara Fenton and Louie Cornejo. Don't miss it! |
