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TRIP DANCE THEATRE UPDATE: SEPTEMBER NEWS

featuring Regina Klenjoski Dance Company & TRIP Dance Theatre with LIVE Original music from Moira Smiley & VOCO and the TRIP Music Ensemble!

Saturday, September 23, 2006
8 p.m.
$25/ $12 students

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WEB INFO:
www.tripdance.org
www.rkdc.org
www.moirasmiley.com
www.fordamphitheatre.org

CONTACT US:
(323) 468-9938
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Top: TRIP Music Ensemble
Middle:Moira Smiley (VOCO)
Bottom: Jessica Basta (VOCO)

Sacred Spaces Returns & 
Ford Amphitheatre here we come!

Get your tickets now for "SYNERGY" - Saturday, September 23rd!

In a flourish of creative energy, TRIP is busy putting the finishing touches on several premieres for "SYNERGY" at the beautiful, outdoor FORD Amphitheatre on Saturday, September 23rd at 8 p.m.

 

The evening features brand new work from Artistic Director Monica Favand (for TRIP) and Regina Klenjoski (for Regina Klenjoski Dance Company) set to original music by Charlie Campagna, Moira Smiley and Ron Bartlett that will be performed LIVE by the amazing TRIP Music Ensemble and Moira Smiley & VOCO!  

23 dancers and musicians are involved in this one night only performance!

 

What we are making: TRIP Dancers Shannon Harris, Andriana Mitchell, Denesa Chan, Tomas Tamayo, Taryn Wayne are working with Favand to create three new works:

"Tether" set to a dynamic score for guitar, bass, cello, percussion and vocals by Ron Bartlett features exciting contemporary movement with tremendous stretch and snap. "Tether" is based on the idea that we humans are all in this together - that everything we do in this world  affects everything and everyone else.  The ending section takes us to Neptune, a kinder, gentler place where people are naturally on the same wavelength. Oh...if only!

"Shadows & Light," to music by Moira Smiley about the push and pull between the pessimist and optimist that can exist in one mind features a duet performed and choreographed by Monica Favand and Taryn Wayne with costumes by Andriana Mitchell. The audience will experience the magnificent voices of VOCO rushing in from side to side in real stereo! 

"Equinox" features joyous couples dancing combining Brazilian rhythms and folk dance patterns from Malaysia set to rocking new music for percussion, voice and guitar by Charlie Campagna.  

PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE

 

We thank the following individuals for their generous contributions this year to TRIP. Without them, and the support of the agencies listed below, we could not do this work.  Thank you. 

As you read these names, we hope you will consider adding your own if you are not already listed! We particularly thank Ginger Navrides, Sari Polinger, Ann Hughes, Amy Pfannensteil & Craig Saloner for their recent and extraordinarly generous donations which are going to create our work at the Ford. In fact, Ginger and Ann have sponsored the entire creation of one new dance - Equinox!

PRIVATE & PUBLIC AGENCIES:
California Community Foundation
City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles County Arts Commission

TRIP DONORS:

(October, 2005 - August, 2006)
Anonymous (1)
Jennifer Balzer
Rebecca Butala
Eric & Cilvana Bricker
Dennis Chan
Heidi Duckler
Pat Harris
Marian F. Hege
Bill & Ann Hughes
Fred Kahane
Susan Kawashima
Ginger Navrides
Amy Pfannenstiel & Craig Saloner
Sari Polinger
Arthur Pond
David Saperia
Karl Syndulko
Patrisha Thomson
David Weiselman

Photo Left: Taryne Wayne & Denesa Chan
Above: Denesa Chan & Shannon Harris

SACRED SPACES WORKSHOP RETURNS

PLEASE NOTE:  WE HAVE ONLY 2 WORKSHOPS THIS MONTH!

Thursday, September 14th and Thursday, September 28th, 7:45 - 9:30 p.m.
235 Hill Street, Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica

A huge thank you to our Sacred Spaces Workshop family for making last season, our seventh year of workshops, a truly special year!  We enjoyed meeting all of the new people who came through, and had a tremendous amount of fun our last month during all of our guest musician and "theme" weeks - which we plan to do more of in the coming months.

Our fundraiser workshop for victims of the recent Earthquake in Java raised over $450 which was sent to help families there with basic needs and to help re-build a historic dance/music school. Thank you for your contributions.

If you are not on the workshop email list and want to be, please just let us know!

We hope to see YOU on September 14th (our first workshop) and September 23rd (our Ford Show!)

 

- THANK YOU FROM THE ENTIRE TRIP FAMILY!

TRIP Dance Theatre is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization serving the Los Angeles Community. The company is  supported in part with funding from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the California Community Foundation and our generous individual donors. Since 1997, the company has offered cutting-edge, contemporary dance and music performances, arts outreach programs, and ongoing Sacred Spaces community workshops with live music. 

 

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