Heidi Duckler Dance, Los Angeles’ leading site-specific dance company, proudly presents Life Cycle of a Fever Dream, our first salon of the 2024 Fall/Winter season in the company’s signature series Truth or Consequences. Hosted at the historic Bendix Building in Downtown LA, this transdisciplinary salon series is produced by HDD, bringing cutting-edge artistry into dynamic conversation with architecture and space.
In this edition, HDD showcases the work of experimental sound artist Julia Edith Rigby, whose exploratory opera invites audiences into a richly immersive soundscape. Life Cycle of a Fever Dream draws from the natural world, combining human and animal sounds—whale sharks, golden-headed lion tamarins, silk moths—with the elements of climate, terrain, and sensory experience. Rigby will perform live on viola and piano in conversation with twenty-one other musicians, sound artists, and vocalists.
This immersive, interactive experience will explore collaboration and interdependence with soniferous animals and environments, imagining futurities that muddle our understanding of sensory worlds and sense of place, loss, and possibility.
Julia Edith Rigby is an experimental sound artist, composer, and sculptor who thinks about entanglements among humans and more-than-humans, phenomena and sound. Her projects explore collaboration, cohabitation and interdependence with soniferous animals and environments, imagining futurities which complexify our understandings of sensory worlds and sense of place, loss and possibility.
Julia Edith Rigby has performed at / composed for LEAF Festival in Lafayette, Colorado (2024), LOW End in Omaha, Nebraska (2023), the Toulouse Theater in New Orleans (2023), SAPPYFEST in New Brunswick (2024) and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, Florida (2023). She is a recipient of artist grants from Arts New Brunswick, the Center for Cultural Innovation and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Rigby was the Sound Art + Experimental Music Fellow at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska in fall 2023.
She has been an artist in residence at GlougauAIR Artist Residency in Berlin, PLAYA Summer Lake, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Kala Art Institute, and others. Rigby has exhibited work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin. Rigby received her MFA in Studio Art at the University of California, Davis (2020).
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They had their debut performance in August 2024 with their program “Tales from Resilience.” The program consisted of historically marginalized composers and concluded with the California premiere of Afro-Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia’s Requiem in d.
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A company of genre-fluid performers, adaptable arts educators, and energized community partners, 8TPS embodies the diversity of trans experience and excellence.
