As L.A. dance spaces shutter, dancers keep moving through a funding drought
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Set us as preferred Earlier this month, Bodytraffic celebrated its 20th anniversary in unorthodox style: by taking its final bow in Los Angeles at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.The company is the latest L.A.
dance troupe to shutter in recent years, joining L.A.Contemporary Dance Company, Crawlspace LA, Live Arts Los Angeles and EDGE Performing Arts Center.Dance in L.A.
frequently feels fleeting, especially as institutions continue to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic, diminishing grant opportunities and economic headwinds.The L.A.
dance scene is known for being scrappy, but the latest closures make every moment in the studio and on stage even more precarious.Dancers are turning to each other for support and professional favors, and are performing in unconventional venues, including art galleries.
Entertainment & Arts After 20 years of bringing new contemporary dance to Los Angeles, Bodytraffic will cease operations in July.The unexpected news comes a little more than a year after the company received a $1-million multiyear grant from the Perenchio Foundation.Andrew Pearson, a choreographer and founder of the dance collective Bodies in Play, grew up in the Bay Area but personifies L.A.
dance, having studied Horton technique under Loretta Livingston (a former dancer with Bella Lewitzky’s company), landed his first big dance company gig in L.A.with Bodytraffic and performed with L.A.
Contemporary Dance Company for seven years.“Their values, their ethos, their creativity do not stop,” Pearson said of dancers.
On May 27, Pearson announced that Bodies in Play had officially become a nonprofit organization after 10 years as an independent, project-based collective.Bodies in Play began as he tried to navigate dance in the city as a choreographer, searching for the professional steps needed to adv...