bodycity

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.

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

come one, come all.

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

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.

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!