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wikidance 2.0 BYOD

By bodycity on June 16, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

During a recent pracky, we discussed all of the answers we’ve each given to the oft-asked question, “what kind of dance do you do?”. As we tossed out such phrases as “contemporary experimental dance” and “democratic dance” and “you know, awesome dance”, we eventually stumbled upon something perfect ” B.Y.O.Dance”.

In celebration of this discovery we are asking you to literally B.Y.O.D. for wikidance 2.0

Originally conceived during the Ultimate Blogger 3, we solicited all users of the internet to share their sweet moves with the promise that we would turn them into a dance.

These were the moves:

wikidance creators! from bodycity on Vimeo.

And what we did with them:

The Wikidance from bodycity on Vimeo.

Post your moves on vimeo or youtube and be sure to tag them with “wikidance2.0”!

Bring it!

Lady Stranger

By bodycity on June 10, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

One dark night in February, Mr. T’s Bowl was home to some strange ladies with flying thighs and trotting bosoms.

Here’s proof:

Lady Stranger from bodycity on Vimeo.

Bodycity with Glasser - Thursday, May 29!

By bodycity on May 27, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Come and see this set!

new songs + new moves = Lucid Dreaming

THURSDAY - May, 29 2008 at Silverlake Lounge w/ Hecuba and Warpaint

9:00pm

we play first!!!!!!!!!!

Body City and Glasser at the Echo this Wednesday!!!

By bodycity on April 29, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Remember us? We are still sashaying (to strut or flounce in a showy manner; he was sashaying around the dinner party in his fancy new clothes) down unassuming neighborhood streets by day and gallivanting (to roam about in search of pleasure or amusement; the young lady was treated like she was about to gallivant off with a pack of low-life hooligans) by night. Take Wednesday night for example. Do you think just any old sassy (lively and spirited; jaunty crew; a sassy little hat) crew would find themselves playing at the Echo alongside LA’s own Glasser? Not to mention in a set with Fool’s Gold and The Entrance Band. If you’ve seen it, then you know. If you haven’t, then you must.

Bodycity at pony
The Echo
Wednesday, April 30th
9pm
1822 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park, California 90026
$10

come one, come all.

bodycity at The Echo, March 24

By bodycity on March 20, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Let’s be honest, here at bodycity, we imagine ourselves as rock stars. Not always, but very often. Some of us have had brief and glorious stints as performing musicians. We’re interested in substance experimentation. We destroy a living room on a weekly basis. We drink tequila constantly without break or pause. We shave each others’ heads. We have wicked jam sessions. We own tambourines. We eat the hottest chilies in the world. Yes, we are rock stars.

On that note:
We are performing at The Echo this Monday!
We are so amped to be collaborating again with the bona fide ruler of rock Glasser for an ass-kicking full set of transcendental mayhem! Kutcha-kah-tah! Yip!

Details:
The Chapin Sisters residency
March, 24 2008 at The Echo
1822 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90026
* 9:00 PM * FREE *

Be there or be not a rock star.

By bodycity at 11:39 PM | Comments (1)

Anatomy Riot #22: Parts and Wholes @ Mr T’s Bowl

By bodycity on February 4, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)

image courtesy Tucker Neel

February 11, 2008, 8:00 PM

bodycity is curating the upcoming Anatomy Riot #22: Parts and Wholes.

performers include:
Julie Lequin
Existential Media
bodycity
Emily Birnbaum and Dan Selon
Don Allen

and more!

@ Mr T’s Bowl in Highland Park
Starts at 8:00pm
$7 at the door
21+

“With low-tech, do-it-yourself spirit in an easygoing setting, Anatomy Riot is an ongoing monthly dance/performance series, curated by choreographer Meg Wolfe & guest curators. Anatomy Riot encourages creative exploration and provides a platform for local artists to share what’s new and what’s in the works; you, dear audience, are spared from the high ticket prices and seat-squirming formality of a more traditional theater setting, while seeing a diversity of works by up-and-coming & seasoned artists.
Short works by 7-10 artists each month.”
image courtesy Ericka Gomez

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About the Artists

“Thoughts on dance.”
“Julie finds whimsical idiosyncratic differences between homeland Quebec and adopted America.”
- Ross-the-Boss
Julie Lequin(Born in Laval, Quebec in 1979) is a French Canadian living in Los Angeles where she received her MFA from the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) in 2005. Julie’s multidisciplinary practice includes video-performance, watercolor, props and costumes, as well as writen lists, voiceovers and notes for scripts. She is interested in storytelling, imitating voices, making wigs and facial hair that look like “sculptures,” creating characters inspired by friends, family and NPR, narration, lip-synching, video diaries, Le Nouveau Roman, and the differences between humor, awkwardness and sadness. In 2007, Julie’s first book and DVD project was published by 2nd Cannons Publications (Los Angeles). Lequin has performed and participated in several group exhibitions in the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, and Sweden. Forthcoming projects include a collaboration with Satellite3 publications, a series of performances for the Confederacy of Creative Ephemera in Los Angeles, a solo exhibition at Raid Project, and an artist residency in Ireland in the Fall 2008. Julie likes: Tina Fey, dancing home parties, bike riding, stressing, to talk to strangers, and cilantro on baguette. She enjoys taking care of her blog: http://julielequin.blogspot.com/

Gwendolyn Meier had dreams of being a hair-dresser from a very young age. Her parents wanted her to be a doctor. She countered with sights set on lounge singing, go-go dancing, or personal shopping. Playing music with Julie may be as close as she’ll get to any of these.

Chantravolta
Existential Media is a web-based community of writers, designers, and artists. This is our first dance performance.
Real Talk!

bodycity is a dance democracy. we are completely ensemble based, each of us with varying levels of training. we are all creative directors. our dances challenge the notion of dance and choreography as a traditional/singular vocabulary performed by specific dance “types.” we are dedicated to the site specific. we are interested in the humorous, perplexing, delightful, weird, pensive, beautiful, exciting and lively.
“LadyStranger” is inspired by those lady strangers you see in a bar. The ones you can’t stop looking at and maybe never talk to, or when you do, you’re not sure exactly what’s happening….. they seem utterly filled up in knowledge of themselves (less self-centered and more like timeless beasts of the earth) that you feel it like steel beams from their eyes. We’ve assembled our own army of these creatures, enlisting the dreamy sound abstractions of Glasser as our battle cry.

Glasser is a band-like recording and performing act, born out of dreams. Cameron Mesirow writes songs with large emphasis on abstract vocals, designed for multi-layered performance which will incorporate as many different singers as she can find.

Accompanying her are Matt Popieluch (Foreign Born, Big Search, Fool’s Gold), Lily Chapin (Chapin Sisters) and Elizabeth Wight (Love Grenades).

“Tied”
Emily Birnbaum and Daniel Selon are both independent theatre artist who have had the pleasure of working together on a number of projects before this in the LA area. This is the first time that they have created a piece together and they are pleased to have had the opportunity to work so closely on this one time duet.

Don Allen has been steadily creating theater for the past eighteen years. An early foundation in musical theater has found him working up and down the East Coast from NH to KY, with three shows at The Walnut Street Theater including a world premiere for Neil Simon. He shifted gears to move to Chicago and devote himself to Improv Theater. A graduate of all the major schools (IO, Second City, The Annoyance). Film work Flirting With Anthony and Waiting are available thru TLA /TROMA. As of late Don has been working with Ken Roht both as a performer and choreographer and dancing in five Alec Mapa shows including a special for LOGO. Recently founded StArt. An organization to produce commercially viable theater in site specific locations to benefit under served audiences.
www.myspace.com/icondonallen

found dance

By bodycity on November 4, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)

bodycity is always in flux, taking in new members and sharing last dances with old friends on their way to new cities, new towns, new schools, new environments, and new bodies. As each dance is performed we have small moments to pause and consider what we’ve done and what we’ll do next. Right now, bodycity is ten members strong, the largest we’ve ever been. This is exciting and challenging, scheduling is a little tougher, but the dynamism of each member is what makes bodycity. An especially exciting part of bodycity right now are the smaller collaborations including some members some times in sight-specific dance videos. These found dance videos include one made recently by our favorite local filmmaker, Jacinto Astiazarán, in Echo Park. The other was made by some of us while hanging out at the Huntington Gardens several weeks ago.

found dance at echo park from bodycity on Vimeo.

We hope to continue to make these videos inbetween our live performances, we are always collaborating with this city and are inspired by the different spaces we pass through. We welcome suggestions, comments, or secret maps to places in LA that need to be danced upon. Send us your musings at bodycity@gmail.com or leave a comment bellow.

danceplants from bodycity on Vimeo.

bodycity also has a new flickr account where we are archiving all photography of past performances. Add us as a contact and if you have pictures of any of our dances please send them to us so that we can add them to our account. Bellow is one of many photos you’ll find of our last dance, bodycity IX: through the Glass Mass.

Thanks to our wonderful audience, we hope you had as much fun as we did!

-bodycity

Spectral Mobile: corrective distortion & spinning spectrums

By bodycity on October 21, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)

spec·ter or spec·tre n
1. a ghostly presence or apparition

spec·tral adj
1. relating to specters or in the form of a specter
2. produced by a spectrum or relating to a spectrum

We’ll be selling these dervish specters at our performance this coming Friday. From ceiling to corner to sun shaft and crooked breeze, a knotted and spinning fraction of light will lift your spirits!

FYI: FRIDAY THE 26th IS A FULL MOON

Feel free to come in costume: Dig on some dance and carry on to your costume party.

bodycity IX: through the Glass Mass

By bodycity on October 15, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well friends,

We’ve managed to make it through the interweb cyclone that was ULTIMATE BLOGGER 3. And while we are not their elected champion, (the title was fairly won by G-rad) we produced some excellent posts and learned quite a bit about HTML. Please visit our last four entries and see for yourself:

Fourth Challenge: Pictures
Fifth Challenge: Piracy
Sixth Challenge: Problems
Seventh Challenge:Politics

But even the internet must give way for good old fashion live performance, and all this while we have been rehearsing our next dance. So please come join us:

A harvest dance to bubble up bodies and fling ourselves, with shirt sleeves rolled and eyes wide open, into the night.

There will also be a sculptural instillation crafted by troupe members. Spectral Mobile: a delicate tool of mysticism using corrective distortion and spinning spectrums.

bodycity is Madeline Baugh, Ali Hyman, Jennifer Lehman, Cristina Paul, Molly Rodgveller, Lake Sharp, Meagan Yellott. And introducing Sarah Anderson & Luke Fischbeck

poster design by Sumi Ink Club

BODYCITY on ULIMATE BLOGGER 3

By bodycity on September 26, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (3)

Let’s get up to speed here, shall we!?

We are presently competing in an internet-famous blogging contest to see if we are the best bloggers in the universe. Seeing as how we aren’t really bloggers by trade, we are happy to report that we have made it through the first THREE rounds without being eliminated!

What follows are our submissions to each challenge:

First Challenge: Build a Profile

Second Challenge: Participation
The Making of Participation

Third Challenge: Passion

Please visit the Ultimate Blogger site to get caught up on all of the other awesome contestants!