Watch this conversation with Founder and Artistic Director Heidi Duckler as part of the Wende Museum and Thomas Mann House's online series "The Political Mandate of the Arts." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t1h0V1aNwc
We're looking for a Marketing Coordinator and a Programs Director to join our team! Full job descriptions and application process are in the links below. Marketing Coordinator Programs Director Please…
Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) is bringing our beloved festival Ebb & Flow Festival back to the Los Angeles State Historic Park on June 25th, 2023. Ebb & Flow is a…
Founder and Artistic Director Heidi Duckler was interviewed by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, along other former artists in residence, to talk about her Yaddo residency in 2007 exploring My Beowulf. …
By Dr. Kerry English Creative Fellow Chyenne Roan-Santini -- In December 2022, I had my final presentation to conclude the Heidi Duckler Dance Dr. Kerry English Creative Fellowship program. Throughout my…
Redefining the discipline and through her use of expanded techniques and a methodology that encourages us to understand how dance, born from a collective experience, can be a tool for…
2022 Dr. Kerry English Fellow Chy Roan-Santini was featured as "Daily Inspiration" in Voyage LA! The interview touches on her background, aspirations, and mindset. We feel honored to know Chy…
This past June 2022, Founder and Artistic Director Heidi Duckler was invited to speak on the Los Angeles County Arts & Culture Panel - 2022 Los Angeles County Arts and…
We are excited to announce that Heidi Duckler Dance has been awarded a 2022 Multi-Year Operating Support Grant from the Perenchio Foundation. The multi-year grant provides operating support to help strengthen our organization…
Written by Arts Education & Programs Director and Dancer Rebecca Lee Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) had the privilege of traveling to Castro, Chile in the archipelago region of Chiloé to…
We were honored to be one of three dance companies selected to present work for Fashion Week's 'Movement of New York,’ a dance celebration of Theory’s new artistic partner Lucas Ossendrijver. The city streets of…
On August 14th, 2022, I moved to Los Angeles and witnessed my first performance at Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD). The dance film series, “Counterintelligence: The Story of Sister Alyonushka and…
How do we Connect Art to Action? Heidi Duckler Dance is hosting our biannual Ebb & Flow Festival this Saturday and Sunday at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook from 3-5pm.…
Join our team of volunteers and help support HDD staff and performers for our upcoming Ebb & Flow Festival. Ebb & Flow is a free, site-specific community festival of local…
2022 Board Announcement Please welcome Co-Founder of RFRM Collective, Nefer Fernandez, to our Board. He was a teaching artist for our 2022 MAP Lab and is sure to continue being…
2022 Board Announcement We are honored to welcome Senior Curator and Head of Architecture Special Collections at the Getty Research Institute, Maristella Casciato, to our Board. We look forward to…
LOS ANGELES (May 26, 2022) – Los Angeles-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) is bringing their ecologically-minded festival Ebb & Flow: Chinatown to the Los Angeles State Historic Park…
2022 Board Announcement We are thrilled to welcome Victor Jones to our Board of Directors! His knowledge of architecture, design, and community engagement will be an invaluable asset on our…
(Festor Fellow and Mentors with Heidi Duckler) In 2020 Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) announced the establishment of the: Dr. Kerry English, Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center Creative Fellowship Foster…
APPLICATION FORM We are bringing our beloved festival Ebb & Flow to the Los Angeles State Historic Park in Chinatown on June 25th and 26th. Ebb & Flow is a…
We are pleased to announce the Artist in Residence @ Heidi Duckler Dance program, a program that centers cultural and artistic exchange, nurtures experimentation, and supports research and the development…
Founder and Artistic Director Heidi Duckler was invited to the 2022 American College Dance Association Northwest Conference hosted by the University of Oregon Department of Dance as a guest artist.…
We are honored to announce that we have been approved for a National Endowment for Arts Project Grant! The award will support a project exploring and activating the work of…
Our film "Where We're Going" has received the Audience Choice Award at the 2021 Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. The award, created in 2017, was based on the festival…
Our film "Where We're Going" (2019) is an official selection for Archiba film festival! The film, directed by Heidi Duckler and Katherine Helen Fisher is one of 13 works from…
Giving Tuesday is November 30th and the giving starts now! Help us reach our fundraising goal of $20,000 to support our artistic and educational programming. Programs like these provide artistic opportunities…
We are proud to introduce the honorees for our 36th Annual Gala "Gather Together." These two women have made a significant impact on Los Angeles throughout their outstanding careers and…
BWW Review: HEIDI DUCKLER DANCE PRESENTS “THE CHANDELIER “ at The Wallis Annenberg Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ Summer @ The Wallis Presents Heidi Duckler Dance in the…
To read in the LA Dance Chronicle Director/Choreographer Heidi Duckler brought an intense performance piece to the Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts this past weekend. “The Chandelier” by…
We are thrilled to be a recipient of the LA Arts Recovery Fund! As one of 90 nonprofits receiving grants, we are excited to continue serving our community and contributing…
On May 3, 2021 we were treated to REMNANTS, a unique culmination of seven workshops at the Downtown Women’s Center and supported by the California Arts Council. It was curated…
2021 Board Announcement We are honored to have Fiammetta Piazza join our Board of Directors. Her knowledge, dance background, and ideas will support the company's mission and help us think…
Heidi Duckler Dance is bringing our beloved festival Ebb & Flow to the Los Angeles State Historic Park in China Town on June 12th and 13th. Ebb & Flow is…
To read in Authority Magazine click here. by Edward Sylvan, CEO of Sycamore Entertainment Group I use my body every day, walking, yoga and gyrotonic Pilates are central to my…
2021 Board Announcement We are excited and honored to have Ken Bernstein join our Board of Directors. His insights and ideas will help propel the company into new territories and…
Link to article Heidi Duckler is considered the “reigning queen” of Site-Specific Dance, a performance medium that takes place in unique urban places, both historic and modern, and brings audiences…
We are excited to announce that Heidi Duckler Dance has recieved grant funding from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation for our participation in the first round of USArtists Internationals (USAI)…
We are excited to announce that Heidi Duckler, on behalf of our sister company Heidi Duckler Dance North West, has been awarded a 2021 Fellowship with the Oregon Arts Commission!…
Heidi Duckler Dance will premiere “Measuring the Sky”, a site-specific dance film as part of The Bogusław Schaeffer Livestream Project presented through HowlRound Theatre Commons on November 23rd, 2020, 12…
Read about our Foster Up program and Dr. Kerry English MLK Jr. Outpatient Center Creative Fellowship in this article by Ann Haskins for the LA Dance Chronicle! Read more here!
LOS ANGELES (August 25, 2020) – Los Angeles-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) presents a 3-part series of virtual programs amplifying the histories and contemporary experiences of Native Americans…
We are so excited and honored to have Maricela join our Board of Directors! Learn more about here below! Maricela Gomez is the Communications Manager for the Los Angeles Community…
Heidi Duckler Dance is excited to bring two new faces onto the team this summer. As interns, Kaitwan and Sophie will help support the HDD mission and vision, in addition…
We were recently featured in the article titled "Site-Specific Choreography: Let's Think Outside Of The Box" by Adrienne Elion on Dance Plug! The piece touches on site-specific choreography and its…
Click here for 2022 application information (Left to right) Heidi Duckler, Olga Garay-English & Dr. Kerry English, photo by Victoria Looseleaf Foster Up: Bringing Foster Youth and the Arts…
We are excited to announce that Magdalena Edwards will be joining our Board! She is a writer, actor, and translator who has been a champion for HDD! Read her bio…
Read Associate Artistic Director and ESCAPE dancer Himerria Wortham’s journal entries from her experience in Chile. Our first day in Valdivia, Chile was in retrospect untelling of what we were…
Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) is thrilled to announce that of the 8 grants we submitted, 7 of them have been funded by the California Arts Council! The California Arts Council…
During this period of uncertainty, it is grounding to take a look back and feel appreciation for the spaces we have been able to activate and the stories we have…
We are excited to announce that Anthony Holland will be joining our Board! He is the Vice President of Mercury in Los Angeles and we are honored to have his…
We are honored to present Underway as a part of LA Opera's Eurydice Found Festival. The countywide celebration re-imagines the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with a focus on…
2019 was a big year for HDD! We put on 8 professional site-specific performances around LA Created 3 new films Worked in 4 schools spanning North, East, and South LA…
We are excited to announce that, for the first time in HDD's history, one of our dancers is joining the Board of Directors. Raymond has danced with the company for…
We are so close to reaching our goal for #GivingDanceDay! You can support our #GivingTuesday campaign by donating, sharing with your family and friends, and/or voting for us on #MyGivingStory!…
We are pleased to announce our participation in #GivingTuesday, a global giving movement that has been built by individuals, families, organizations, businesses and communities in countries around the world. Millions…
We are delighted to announce two new additions to our Board of Directors: Natalie Samarjian and Deborah Weintraub! We are so excited to have these incredibly accomplished and experienced women…
LOS ANGELES, CA. (July 8, 2019) The Board of Directors of Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) announced today Raphaelle Ziemba has been named Managing Director. Ziemba will work alongside Heidi Duckler,…
We were recently awarded over $250k in grants by the California Arts Council! The California Arts Council announced a grant award of $150,000 to Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) as part…
Orange Is The New Black, the hit Netflix show portraying the community of a women’s prison and all of its complexities, is one of many fictional media productions informing most…
As the education and engagement director I get to interact and learn about communities all across Los Angeles. In 2019-2020 HDD became the first Los Angeles dance company in history…
LA DANCE CHRONICLE Posted by Jeff Slayton | Oct 29, 2018 For over 30 years, Heidi Duckler has been a major force in site specific work in Los Angeles and…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXa2kbqkZ3o “HDD has acquired two interns for summer 2018 through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission! We are excited to have Jonathan and Geneva as our Program Management Intern and…
Heidi Duckler's dancers find a most unusual stage: A South L.A. hospital By LAURA BLEIBERG MAY 24, 2018 | 7:00 AM The dance company of Heidi Duckler, left, will set…
AUTHOR: Claudia Escobar IF CITIES COULD DANCE: A VIDEO SERIES https://vimeo.com/267465262 Dancers Spin Through a Los Angeles Rarely Seen on the Silver Screen Editors Note: If Cities Could Dance captures…
The Wreck of the Miranda LA Opera Sing Through with NoHoHi Students Thank you to the L.A. Opera, Stacy Brightman, VP Education & Community Engagement, and the Autry Museum of…
JOIN AS A MONTHLY SUPPORTER! Click Here to become a member today! Dear Friends of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, We have began our annual membership drive and we hope that…
Oh how time flies when you're having fun! HDDT has been lucky enough to have UCLA student Kristine Ngo join the team as our (paid!) summer Events Intern since June,…
Ever visit Target in Westfield Culver City and stop dead in your tracks thinking Is that a huge, purple question mark lying on its side? It is, and who can…
They say all good things must come to an end, but of course we wish our Duck Truck Residency Program at St. Mary’s Academy could continue infinitely! After six weeks…
In 2011, the International Art Association officially declared April 15 World Art Day. (Why the 15th you ask? Not because of Tax Day! No, it's Leonardo da Vinci's birthday!) The…
Image by Sean Deckert On March 2nd, we wrapped up our fourth year of the Duck Truck Residency Program at El Sereno Middle School with a final performance by Ms.…
Whether you're a serious site-specific dancer, or a mover looking to expand your repertoire, our upcoming choreography workshop, Animating the Landscape is sure to have something for you! Taught by…
If you've followed us for a while, you know that we love Valentine's Day! I mean, who wouldn't love a holiday that's practically dedicated to the giving and receiving of…
Our 1967 Kountry Aire trailer is a site-specific classroom-on-wheels, by its nature suggesting themes of movement and travel. Yet as our world advances around us at an increasing speed, the…
Photo by Andrei Andreev Over the course of this month, we’ll reflect on our past work, and how we use dance as a tool for sparking introspection, conversation and rumination…
Our intern Andrew hard at work editing some of our backlog of dance performance footage! Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is thrilled to host another fabulous Seoul Institute of Arts student…
From the streets of Havana, Cuba, to an abandoned movie theater in Chinatown; a car wash in West Hollywood, to a produce market in downtown Los Angeles, 2016 had us…
I’m sure you have heard by now that the new administration has threatened to revoke our cultural programming by eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the…
While we're ten days into 2017, we haven't swept away our favorite moments from 2016. This week and next we'll recap some of our favorite accomplishments from last year. Today,…
This year we had the pleasure of bringing site-specific dance education to over 400 youth and seniors in the LA area— many of whom had no previous dance and/or arts…
Exciting news from Team Duckler! We're hiring! We're in search of a new Program Director. Is this you or someone you know? Position details are below. Please forward this announcement…
When the National Dance Education Organization mentioned on Twitter that November 29 was "Thank a Dance Teacher Day" we got to wondering about the wonderful artists who taught our dancers.…
On Saturday, October 8th, we opened When I Am King in Chinatown's King Hing Theater. Once a vibrant cinema, the now abandoned projector rooms, box office, and vast theatrical expanses…
When we at Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre celebrate our 31st year with our gala, The King Hing Thing next month, we’re excited to honor the work of two extraordinary people:…
When we at Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre celebrate our 31st year with our gala, The King Hing Thing next month, we're excited to honor the work of two extraordinary people:…
Sean Santhon, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's LA County Arts Commission summer intern, wrote the following blog post. Santhon majors in dance and political science at the University of California, Los…
Our Company Catalyst, Zach created this infographic as a visual representation of all the work Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has already done this year. From international trips to arts ed…
This Saturday (June 25th! 8pm!), we’ll premiere our project, Night Market. We started the process six months ago, when we interviewed vendors and staff of Central Wholesale Market (the produce…
This Saturday (June 25th! 8pm!), we’ll premiere our project, Night Market. We started the process six months ago, when we interviewed vendors and staff of Central Wholesale Market (the produce…
The wait is over! After over a year of anticipation, Season Four of "Orange is the New Black" will officially be up on Netflix in under 24 hours. Before we…
Have you heard? Heidi won a Horton! This week, the Dance Resource Center (DRC) announced that it will honor our artistic director (and company namesake) Heidi Duckler with a 2016…
If you follow Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre on Instagram (and we hope you do!) you may recall us posting some shots of interviews we were filming at Central Wholesale Market…
Image via loomis.8k.com Editor's note: On June 4th, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will perform 143 Days, a modern re-telling of Charles Fletcher Lummis's trek from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. In…
Post written by Experience Director Allegra Padilla. This past Saturday (5.21.16) Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre wrapped up its Outpost project in Antelope Valley. We hosted Outpost: A Sign of the…
Photo by Sean Deckert Here's a fun history lesson: In 1884, when the nascent Los Angeles Times offered Cincinnati-based writer, Charles Fletcher Lummis a job, he accepted, and informed the…
Editor's note: Over the last six months Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has had the pleasure of working in the Antelope Valley community as part of Los Angeles County Arts Commission's…
Image by Sean Deckert This summer, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will premiere Night Market—a piece based on the biographies of workers at Downtown Los Angeles's Central Wholesale Market. Over the…
As part of our Outpost: A Sign of the Times project, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will be hosting two community workshops for the Antelope Valley. Our first workshop, Visioning Our…
While access to internet is Cuba is limited, we're pleased to report we've received a few dispatches from our traveling colleagues. Here are a few images they've shared from their…
That's Mollie on the right, her students in Seoul on the left! It's the last day of National Arts Ed month, and we're going to introduce you to one more…
We're sure by now you've caught wind of a campaign going on. We launched our Kickstarter campaign just about a month ago. (What, is there some other high profile campaign…
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is lucky to have creative and talented teaching artists bringing site-specific dance to students around Los Angeles. Deidra "Krucial" Cooper-Jenkins is one of those teaching artists.…
In continuing with our Arts Ed posts, we wanted to introduce you to another member of our teaching artists team, Shantel Urena. Shantel's first experience with Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre…
As we mentioned yesterday, it's National Arts Ed month. We wanted to take a moment to reflect on the values behind the dance instruction we bring to neighborhoods around Los…
It's National Arts Ed month! What better time to introduce you to our teaching artists? These men and women work out in the field (and by field, we mean schools…
Photo by Sean Deckert This Sunday (March 6, 2016) Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will present 'Outpost: A Sign of the Times' (performance details below). We're expecting a great crowd for…
It's here—our next adventure! Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has been invited to perform at the 21st annual “Habana Vieja: Ciudad en Movimiento” (“Old Havana: City in Movement”) festival in Havana,…
We'll admit it, we love Valentine's Day. Not only that, we have some really cool photos hanging out in our archives just waiting to ... be made into Valentines. So,…
Post by Allegra Padilla, Experience Director Antelope Valley is known for the beautiful desert landscape, the aerospace industry and often times for being a place that is just far enough…
In 2014 Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre performed a piece at the historic Dunbar Hotel in South LA. The Dunbar was built by and for the Black community and was, in…
Christmas is a mere three days away, Hanukkah is at our backs, and New Year's has us in its sights. At Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, we'll be taking a couple…
This is the very first post of our new Experience Director, Allegra Padilla! We look forward to more updates from Allegra in 2016! Last week, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre’s Duck…
We met Trudy, 87, at Hollenbeck Palms Continuing Care Retirement Community. She was born in Philadelphia and raised in the Lower Eastside of New York City. She moved to Los…
Happy Thanksgiving! As we indulge today in turkey, mashed potatoes and pie, we're also counting all the amazing experiences we've had throughout our 30th year! Here are five highlights. Five…
As we head into the holiday season and towards a brand new year, the staff of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is taking time to reflect on 2015 — the experiences,…
As we head into the holiday season and towards a brand new year, the staff of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre is taking time to reflect on 2015 — the experiences,…
Let’s animate the landscape together! This year, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will participate in Giving Tuesday. While many of you may be acquainted with this annual day of philanthropy, for…
Photo by Sean Deckert When Heidi met Jeff Slayton, she was just getting her bearings here in LA. She visited his apartment to interview him for an article she was…
Photo credit Sean Deckert As we’re sure you know by now (because we’ve made it unavoidable) WE’RE HAVING A PARTY! There’s no need to worry about if you’ll get invited…
Los Angeles Percussion Quartet We couldn’t be more excited to collaborate with those four geniuses known as the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet this weekend. These talented guys will perform a…
This is it. The heroes of our dance telenovela, Sophie and Charlie have been through a lot in the last three weeks. They met at one of the stranger funerals…
When we premiere our four-part dance telenovela Sophie & Charlie next week, we’ll be joined by a virtuoso duo: violinist Lili Haydn and pianist William Goldstein. The two musicians will…
Heidi Duckler Dance Theater Northwest Performs Ragnarok February 1, 2014 at the Rexel/Taylor Electric Supply Company buildingDepending on how long you’ve followed the work of Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, it…
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre performs a telenovela across Los Angeles Company premieres episodic dance work, Sophie & Charlie, in September. The last thing Sophie expects to find at a funeral…
Last week we introduced you to our collaborators, Claire Gignac et compagnie … AKA, the French-Canadian jazz band who will be accompanying our performers at our Chinatown Blues performances this…
Image by Andrei Andreev. Brush Up was made possible by a grant from LA's Department of Cultural Affairs Here at Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre we’re starting the summer off on…
30th Anniversary Gala Saturday, October 24, 2015 photo by Andrei Andreev Fresh & Fancy was an incredible success. Thank you to all who joined, donated, placed tributes in our program…
We learned earlier this month that Bloomberg Philanthropies has chosen Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre as one of the recipients of its two-year, Arts Innovation and Management grant. We're looking forward…
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre will be joined by musicians from four-piece French-Canadian band Claire Gignac et compagnie, for Chinatown Blues, a performance that will explore what the intertwining of cultures…
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At Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre, we're celebrating our 30th anniversary! The last three decades have seen us in countless unexpected places: laundromats, vacant lots, working hospitals, abandoned buildings, bowling alleys…