On Thursday, October 24, 2024, HDD Founder and Artistic Director Heidi Duckler debuted new works at the MAK Center for Art & Architecture L.A.'s Schindler House in West Hollywood. In…
Straight out of high school, I had a clear plan: take engineering prerequisite courses at El Camino Community College, transfer to a good university, and graduate with a mechanical engineering…
My name is Ariana Soria and I am a young Latina artist based in Boyle Heights whose passion is fueled by visual/media art. I interned at Heidi Duckler Dance through…
Hello, I’m Angelyn Rendón. I currently attend Santee Education Complex High School. I am going into my senior year, and have the opportunity to work with Heidi Duckler Dance through…
A funny story about this fellowship: I applied to be a fellow but wasn't chosen. Instead, I was offered an internship at Heidi Duckler Dance, which was just as great.…
Hello! My name is Aaliyah Ybarra, I am a dancer, student, teacher, and creative/ artist. I was lucky enough to be blessed with the opportunity to do my “externship” at…
On June 1st, 2024, we had the pleasure of hosting the first Leadership Circle event of the year at the home of Thom and Blythe Mayne. Thom and Blythe's home has been featured…
Hello, I'm Cathie Arteaga, the Production and Festival intern for Heidi Duckler Dance. Ebb & Flow was the first show that I worked on and had the pleasure to witness.…
Heidi Duckler Education is meeting Los Angeles where they are! We are excited to announce two new partnerships with community centers in South LA established this past Spring. One at…
Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of speaking at the L.A. Forum of Architecture and Urban Design event, Under the Influence. The event was held at the incredible, MAK Center…
The HDD Original Film, I Will Remember What I Forgot, is still on a roll in the film festival circuit. We are pleased to announce that the film has won the…
Our 2023 Dr. Kerry English Creative Fellow, Myron Tyson, went above and beyond during his time in the fellowship program where he wrote, directed, and filmed a moving biopic for…
Now through June 5, 2024, Heidi Duckler Dance is hosting a FREE 8-week residency program for ages 5-11. Participants will have the opportunity to explore the art of site-specific dance! …
The HDD Original Film, I Will Remember What I Forgot is still going strong in the film festival circuit. The dynamic film that tackles mental health is an official selection…
We are accepting applications for a full-time paid Development and Marketing Intern to work in our Downtown Los Angeles office. To apply for this position, please send your resume and a cover…
Heidi Duckler Dance's immersive workshop rooted in combining movement, art, and performance, returned this year at the Bendix building rooftop in Downtown Los Angeles. Across three days, participants learned from…
2022 Dr. Kerry English Creative Fellow, Chyenne Roan-Santini has been shining bright since the 2022 fellowship concluded. From modeling to being cast in national commercial spots, plus more, Heidi Duckler…
Happy Women's History Month! As a company founded and operated by a woman, HDD celebrates Women's History Month all year long. Today being the first day of Women's History Month,…
Los Angeles-based dance company Heidi Duckler Dance debuted the December installment of Truth or Consequences, a curated series of transdisciplinary salons at the historic Bendix Building in Downtown Los Angeles.…
Heidi Duckler Dance celebrates Black History Month this year by highlighting the creative and inspirational Black artists who help make our site-specific work unique, memorable, and special. Watch.
From concept to reality. Behind the Movement Episode #1, highlights the process for HDD's most inspiring performances in 2023. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/yUaVroINKxA Featured Performances CURRENT @ HDD's 38th Anniversary Celebration…
At Heidi Duckler Dance, we value artists who help make site-specific work come to fruition. Today, we are shining the spotlight on Colleen Loverde. Colleen has been dancing with Heidi…
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…
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.…
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!
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 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 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!…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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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