Join us at Ebb & Flow: Vista Hermosa Natural Park!

Heidi Duckler Dance proudly presents the 7th annual Ebb & Flow community arts festival at Vista Hermosa Natural Park on Saturday, June 14, 2025.

Ebb & Flow is a free, family-friendly festival that brings the community together to explore themes of climate change, nature, health, and humanity through an immersive blend of dance, visual art, music, and technology.

For this year’s celebration, HDD Artistic Director Raymond Ejiofor has curated and commissioned works by multidisciplinary artists, inviting audiences to experience powerful performances and interactive installations that reflect our shared environmental and social landscapes. Heidi Duckler Dance is thrilled to be featuring works by local artists. 

Guests will also have the chance to celebrate the Earth through a hands-on, eco-friendly art activity at our pot painting station before the performances begin. Personalize a biodegradable pot and plant a seedling inside—an artistic keepsake that grows with you!

Mark your calendars for a vibrant afternoon of creativity, connection, and community—set against the stunning backdrop of one of LA’s most beloved urban parks.

Program Schedule

Check-in + pot painting art activity | 2 pm

Performances | 3 pm

Event concludes | 4 pm

Know Before You Go

Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes suitable for walking and extended standing. Performances happen at multiple locations and require walking between sites, including areas with uneven terrain. Guests are encouraged to bring a portable chair for seating.

Featured Artists

Stephanie Kim | Choreographer + Director

Stephanie Kim is a Los Angeles-based professional dancer and freelance artist. Stephanie has had the opportunity to perform for audiences at the Grammys®, the Academy Awards®, the Met Gala, LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, at Lincoln Center, The Joyce, with the LA Philharmonic and Jacob’s Pillow. She has worked with choreographers such as Kitty McNamee, Nina McNeely, Denna Thompson, Melissa Barak, Daniel Ezralow, Rob Ashford, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. She has toured internationally with Andrea Bocelli and has worked with artists including Katy Perry, The Weeknd, AFI, John Legend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Lil’ Nas X.

Stephanie has choreographed for Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, and U2; been featured in campaigns for Banana Republic Dom Pérignon, and Vitamin Water. She has also performed on screen for movies and television such as Petals in the Wind, Ted 2, Don’t Worry Darling, Lucifer, Gilmore Girls, The Masked Singer, Dave and Happy Endings. Moving through life with integrity and passion, Stephanie Kim has created the life she imagined and re-imagines daily.

Zach Gold | Photographer + Filmmaker

Zach Gold is a photographer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His photographs and short films have been shown at the Moca Museum Los Angeles, Pompidou Center, Rotterdam Film Festival, and he is included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and the Brooklyn Museum. Zach joined forces with curator Lisa Small to create the ‘Killer Heels’ exhibition for the Brooklyn Museum. The New York Times called it “the most gorgeous and meticulously organized show mounted by the Brooklyn Museum in years”.

Zach has been recognized in many ways over the years but is most proud of winning the International Center of Photography’s Young Photographer of the Year. Zach has collaborated with and created campaigns for: Iris Van Herpen, Drake, Taylor Swift, Vogue Brasil, Issey Miyake, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Ermenegildo Zegna, Coke and Nike among others.

Jeff Morrical | Installation Artist

Jeff Morrical is a Los Angeles based installation artist specializing in paper sculptures. With a background in architecture, and a masters from SCI-Arc, finding form, structure and pattern in everyday materials has always been a driving force in Jeff’s work. He uses drafting software to design 2-dimensional patterns and graphics on large custom sheets of paper that correspond with the 3-dimensional forms created through the folding process.

Joe Davis | Dancer

Joe was born and raised in the beautiful hills of upstate New York, and can easily be identified by his cacophonous laughter. He began his training in Rochester, New York, and continued his studies at The Juilliard School on scholarships from The NYCDA Foundation and Cornell University. During his training he performed principal roles in the works of Symphony of Psalms by Jirí Kylián, and Baker’s Dozen by Twyla Tharp. He also performed works by notable choreographers such as Nacho Duato, Kyle Abraham, Martha Graham, Camille A. Brown and Brian Brooks.

From 2016- 2022 he was a dancer with LA based contemporary company BODYTRAFFIC, where he traveled twice to Algeria as a cultural ambassador for the arts representing The U.S. in the International Modern Dance Festival. As a company member he toured internationally to Russia, Holland, Poland, Indonesia, Serbia and Mexico, and choreographed internationally in the cities of Jakarta and Hong Kong. Professionally, he has performed pieces by renowned choreographers such as Hofesh Shechter, Alejandro Cerudo, Gustavo Ramirez Sansano, Micaela Taylor, Barak Marshall, Arthur Pita, Victor Quijada, Matthew Neenan, Sidra Bell and Richard Seigal. He has been a guest artist with Long Beach Opera, LA Chamber Orchestra, Heidi Duckler Dance Company and Clairobscur Dance.

In 2019 he co-founded HD Theatre with partner Haley Heckethorn, a contemporary dance company that performs and commissions work by upcoming and established choreographers, while also providing educational spaces for youth dance programs. On film, Joe can be seen in Calvin Klein’s Spring ’22 campaign, music video Man’s World, written by MARINA and directed by Alexandra Gavillet, as well as Requim for Air and Normalcy by Laurie Sefton. In addition to performing and choreographing he has taught master classes at institutions such as Steps on Broadway, Loyola Marymount University, Chapman University, Santa Monica College, UCLA and numerous dance studios across the country, and is currently on faculty at CalArts in Valencia, CA. Joe is a lead Dance Church® teacher, an all-inclusive and community driven outlet to dancing.

Tomoko Ozawa | Pianist, Singer + Composer

Pianist and composer Tomoko Ozawa is a fresh voice from Japan, raised in international settings. A graduate of Berklee College of Music and Longy School of Music, her music crosses genre borders, combining lyricism with European contemporary classical music and rhythmic elements of Jazz. 

Tomoko began studying classical piano in Tokyo at the age of six, and spent three years in England during her teens, where she studied with Belinda Mikhail and Vanessa Latarche, the Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music. 

Upon returning to Japan, she studied religions of Japan, philosophy and ethnomusicology alongside majoring in international law at the International Christian University in Tokyo. She picked up piano again during her senior year, this time improvising and composing through Jazz. She then relocated to Boston to further her studies in jazz composition, graduating from Berklee College of Music in 2014, and completing her master’s degree in Modern American Music from Longy School of Music in 2017.

Si Nos Pagan Boys | Artist Collective +

Durden and Ray | Curators

Pelota de Playa (Beach Ball), a 11.5 foot, diameter, inflatable sculpture, created by humor based Colombian artist collective Si Nos Pagan Boys. Pelota de Playa is presented as a collaboration with Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, from the exhibition Smiling in Chaos, and as a performance by Heidi Duckler Dance incorporating a deflating Pelota de Playa. Members of Si Nos Pagan Boys include Gonzalo García Gaitán, Boris Pérez, and Javier Vanegas.

Si Nos Pagan Boys is a Colombian artistic collective founded in 2011. They invite artists from different generations and backgrounds, with an intergenerational, inclusive, and often humorous approach. The collective operates like a team, blending serious work with a playful spirit. They work toward maintaining a collaborative essence and commitment to fresh, participatory, artistic proposals. Past projects include *Elegía a Jaime Molina* (2011), and *MANIMAL* (2012), MAMBO and Arte Cámara (2013), and the QiPO Fair, Mexico City, (2023 and 2024).

Smiling in Chaos, co-curated by Gonzalo García Gaitán, Ismael de Anda III, and Carlos Beltrán Aréchiga, recently presented at Durden and Ray, is an exhibition that revolves around the theme of humor and the ability of Colombian and L.A. artists to intertwine in their works, various forms of humor as a means to provoke laughter and fun in the face of the challenges of current times with the contribution of affirmative absurdity and laughter.

Founded in 2009, Durden and Ray is comprised of artist/curators who work together to create exhibition opportunities at their downtown Los Angeles gallery as well as together with artist groups and gallery spaces around the world. Smiling in Chaos, will be presented in Bogotá, Colombia; September, 2025.

Carlos Beltrán Aréchiga, Snežana Saraswati Petrović, and Ismael de Anda III make up the partnering, coordinating team, for the presentation of Pelota de Playa by Si Nos Pagan Boys, at Hermosa Park in Los Angeles, for the 7th Annual Ebb & Flow Festival.

This program is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.