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…
Heidi DucklerApril 8, 2020
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 21, 2019
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…
Heidi DucklerApril 17, 2019
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…
Heidi DucklerOctober 30, 2018
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 DucklerJuly 5, 2018
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 30, 2018
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 17, 2018
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…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 21, 2018
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…
Heidi DucklerAugust 31, 2017
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,…
Heidi DucklerJuly 28, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 2, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerApril 24, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerApril 13, 2017
Well ... spring is here at least, and summer is just around the corner. In LA that means the outdoor fun is about to begin! We go all out here!…
Heidi DucklerApril 11, 2017
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.…
Heidi DucklerApril 3, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 24, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 14, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 9, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 6, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 1, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerJanuary 27, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerJanuary 23, 2017
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,…
Heidi DucklerJanuary 10, 2017
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…
Heidi DucklerDecember 27, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerDecember 19, 2016
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.…
Heidi DucklerDecember 2, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerOctober 18, 2016
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:…
Heidi DucklerSeptember 16, 2016
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:…
Heidi DucklerSeptember 9, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerAugust 17, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerJuly 14, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerJune 24, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerJune 21, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerJune 16, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerJune 14, 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…
Heidi DucklerJune 9, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 27, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 24, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 20, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 16, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 6, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerApril 13, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerApril 6, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMarch 31, 2016
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 DucklerMarch 29, 2016
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.…
Heidi DucklerMarch 28, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMarch 23, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMarch 22, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMarch 21, 2016
As you may (or may not) know by now, your friends at Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre have been hard at work building a fish. Not just any fish, The Fish.…
Heidi DucklerMarch 9, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerMarch 3, 2016
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,…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 25, 2016
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,…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 11, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerFebruary 9, 2016
We're only 2.5 weeks into 2016, but we'd like to give a final quick shout out to our 2015 selves! We took a moment to review our highlights from the…
Heidi DucklerJanuary 20, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerJanuary 18, 2016
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…
Heidi DucklerDecember 22, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerDecember 14, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerNovember 30, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerNovember 27, 2015
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,…
Heidi DucklerNovember 25, 2015
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,…
Heidi DucklerNovember 23, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerNovember 19, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerNovember 3, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerOctober 20, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerOctober 15, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerOctober 13, 2015
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 DucklerSeptember 21, 2015
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 DucklerSeptember 9, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerAugust 25, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerAugust 10, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerAugust 9, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerAugust 4, 2015
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 DucklerAugust 3, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 29, 2015
Want to make sure you're the first to know about the next Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre performance? The best way to do that is by signing up for our email…
Heidi DucklerMay 28, 2015
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…
Heidi DucklerMay 27, 2015
