Heidi Duckler Dance

Truth or Consequences: Close to the Ground
2025-02-15 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join premier Los Angeles-based company Heidi Duckler Dance for an engaging salon series featuring renowned choreographer and dancer Jasmine Albuquerque.
As we enter the Year of the Wood Snake—a symbol of renewal and transformation—this salon invites us to reflect on our ability to adapt. From the rise of robotics and AI to the challenges of climate change and wildfires, how do we embrace change, shed old patterns, and reconnect with our innate ability to heal, much like the graceful and resilient snake?
The night begins with compelling dance performances by B Gosse, and Maija Knapp and then featured work by Jasmine Albuquerque. Adding to the night’s artistic depth, Nandi Zulu will share her evocative poetry. The evening will conclude with a special screening of an experimental film.
Don’t miss this dynamic evening of artistry, dialogue, and reflection.
Tickets:

$40 Presale (available until 5 PM on February 15, 2025)
$50 at the Door

Evening Schedule
Reception at 5 PM
Performance at 6 PM

Featured Artist | Jasmine Albuquerque
Jasmine Albuquerque is a choreographer, dancer, storyteller and instructor based in Los Angeles. She is fascinated by the body and how it moves, ages and rearranges in space. Dance is the language she prefers to speak as she continues to swallow her art practice. Jasmine is a co-founder of WIFE and has performed with companies such as Hysterica, Blue13 Bollywood, Collage Dance Theater, Ryan Heffington’s Fingered and done movement direction for Beyonce, Rihanna and Jennifer Lopez. Other performances include Soft Sex, Istanbul Light Festival, TEDx SoCal, KTCHN, We Are The World, Frequency Festival, Jane’s Addiction and Hecuba at venues including the Hammer Museum, Zebulon, the El Rey, the Wiltern, MOCA, The Ford, The Orpheum, and LACMA. Jasmine has choreographed for Katy Perry, Ivy Park, Puma x Balmain, St. Vincent, Devendra Banhart, Ry X, Sylvan Esso, Cameron Avery, Monica Dogra, Carlie Hanson and danced in videos for Beck, Laura Marling, The Weekend, Miguel, Rodrigo Amarante, Lawrence Rothman, Verve Records, Fitz & The Tantrums, MIKA, Jessica Tonder and Morcheeba. She has a degree in History from UCLA and trained in contemporary dance at The Edge Performing Arts Center and in Budapest, Hungary. She has been teaching dance for the past twenty years in and around Los Angeles, Copenhagen and Mexico.
Guest Artists

Maija Knapp | Dancer

B Gosse | Dancer

Nandi Zulu | Poet

This program is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.

Truth or Consequences: Life Cycle of a Fever Dream
2024-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
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.
Featured Artist | Julia Edith Rigby
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).
Guest Artists

Liminal Voices & Orchestra
In the summer of 2024, Dr. Fabián Rodríguez Castro (they/he) launched their non-profit, Liminal Voices & Orchestra, a choral-orchestral ensemble for experienced musicians that identify within the LGBTQ+/Gender Expansive/BBIA (Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian) communities.
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.

8TPS Music
8TPS is a vocal collective of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive musicians working at the intersection of professional, identity-driven, and community-building choral ensembles.
A company of genre-fluid performers, adaptable arts educators, and energized community partners, 8TPS embodies the diversity of trans experience and excellence.
Andrew Fong | French Horn

Ben Kinsley | Geophone

Chris Mckelway | Piano

Leora Malka | Vocalist ~ Alto

Mason Moy | Tuba

Grace Dashnaw | Cello

Nicki Chen | Viola

Rogelio Resendiz | Vocalist ~ Countertenor

Simone Maura | Violin

Grant Laren | Horn

Victor Gonzalez | Saxophone

Spencer Bowie |Saxophone

Yenju Chen | Violin

Adrian Narro | Cello

This program is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.

Special thanks to CultureHub LA for their partnership and support.

What Remains Un/Seen
2024-11-02 16:00 - 20:00 | Wende Museum, 10808 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Join us for a new performance, What Remains Un/Seen. This unique event is set for Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 at the Wende Museum and its garden.
Choreographed and directed by HDD Founder and Artistic Director, Heidi Duckler, “What Remains Un/Seen” delves into the deep waters of surveillance and societal control, inspired by the themes of the Wende Museum’s exhibition “Counter/Surveillance.”
This compelling work invites audiences into the inner garden, where Mexican-American Scenic Designer, Efren Delgadillo Jr. will transform it into an enigmatic space. Here, movement and mystery converge in interactive vignettes where HDD dancers animate the silent dialogues of observation. These performances subtly reveal the tensions between visibility and the unseen, offering a nuanced examination of the dance between the observer and the observed.
Accompanying the choreography, the atmosphere is infused with haunting live music and intricate soundscapes that echo through the garden, crafted from a blend of live performances and electronically altered sounds that underscore the theme of surveillance. The experience is further enriched by transient set designs where ephemeral structures and vivid multimedia projections warp the boundaries of space and secrecy, creating an environment that invites audience interaction and contemplation. “What Remains Un/Seen” combines live music and dance, inviting an audience to engage in a world full of fictional truth.
Admission is free with a suggested donation of $20.
Event Schedule

4 pm | Self-guided Counter/Surveillance gallery tour
5 pm | First performance
6 pm | Second performance
7 pm | Self-guided Counter/Surveillance gallery tour for second group
8pm | Museum closes

Featured Artists

Alejandro Perez

Sasha Rivero

Joseph Stevens

Kayla Gabrielle

Musicians

Cosmic Vibrations Musical Group

This program is supported, in part, by the Wende Museum, the City of Culver City, California, and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with additional support from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

39th Anniversary Celebration
2024-09-21 17:00 - 22:00 | loyola law school, 919 Albany St, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Heidi Duckler Dance will celebrate its 39th Anniversary Celebration, Dance in the Light of the Harvest Moon, at the iconic Frank Gehry-designed campus of Loyola Law School on Saturday, September 21, 2024 at 5 pm.
The redesign of Loyola’s campus in 1978 marked a pivotal moment in Gehry’s career, showcasing his radical use of unconventional materials and his visionary approach to architecture. This project helped catapult Gehry to national and international acclaim, as he transformed Loyola’s downtown Los Angeles site into a neo-traditional campus that redefined the boundaries of architectural design.
Both Duckler and Gehry are pioneers in their respective fields, pushing the boundaries of how we experience art, architecture, and movement. Their work challenges us to reimagine our surroundings and our connections within them.
This evening will offer a glimpse into the future of our vibrant Los Angeles community of artists, designers, community advocates, and academics. The event will feature a cocktail reception, performances, and an awards ceremony while blending artistry and community spirit.
Enhancing the evening’s allure, new works will be showcased, choreographed and directed by Madison Olandt, and Alejandro Perez. These performances promise to engage the audience with their distinct artistic voices and creative approaches to movement. Additionally, guests will be treated to a dynamic original piece titled School of Fish, created by transdisciplinary choreographer Shoji Yamasaki, known for his innovative approach to storytelling through dance.
Dress code ~ Festive Fall colors!
OR Mail a check made out to “Heidi Duckler Dance” to 1206 Maple Ave. Suite 1100B, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Questions: Please email Raphaelle Ziemba, Managing Director, at raphaelle@heididuckler.org or call 213-373-0366
Heidi Duckler Dance is a non-profit organization with a 501(c)(3) classification from the Internal Revenue Service. The portion of the contribution that exceeds the fair market value of $50 per individual ticket is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Heidi Duckler Dance – Tax Identification Number: 95-4152270
Event Timeline
5:00 PM | Reception
6:00 PM | Award Ceremony in the Esplanade
7:00 PM | Performances on Frank Gehry’s staircases throughout the campus
8:00 PM | Dinner and Dancing on the Rooftop overlooking the City

Meet the Honorees
Marla Bleavins is a proud native of Los Angeles, having grown up in the greater Crenshaw area where she still resides. She was raised by two dedicated public servants –a retired educator and a retired Lieutenant with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. She attended local schools, graduating from St. Bernard High School and from there she went on to earn her degree in Public Policy at Stanford University. Upon returning to Los Angeles after graduation, she soon continued her family’s proud legacy of public service by starting her 25-year career with the City of Los Angeles. She also earned a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School.
Marla takes great pride in having “grown up in the City” professionally, having started her career as a management assistant in the Office of the City Administrative Officer and eventually taking on key roles in other departments such as Debt & Treasury Manager at LAX, Assistant General Manager at the Los Angeles Convention Center and most recently Deputy Executive Director & Chief Financial Officer at the Port of Los Angeles. She also served as Executive Officer, serving the second in command at the nation’s busiest container port.
In May, Marla returned to Los Angeles World Airports, the City agency that runs LAX, to serve as Chief Airports Administrative Officer where she will lead human resources, procurement, supplier diversity, risk management, and commercial development. Alex M. Johnson is Vice President of Public Affairs at The California Wellness Foundation where he brings nearly twenty years of successful cross-sector experience working with policymakers, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and the philanthropic sector to solve problems and advance change. Johnson returned to Cal Wellness in January 2024 after serving as vice president at Bryson Gillette, a strategic communications and public affairs firm where he led efforts to support clients working to create change across multiple sectors, including education, government, philanthropy, and nonprofits. Before his time at Bryson Gillette, Johnson served as a senior leader at Cal Wellness for nearly five years in various grantmaking roles, including as Chief of Staff and Program Director. Alex led efforts to address gun violence as a preventable public health issue, reimagine the youth justice system, and address issues ranging from health equity, environmental justice, and immigration.
Alex serves on the boards of Southern California Grantmakers, Urban Peace Institute, Trust for Public Land, Wiley Center for Speech and Language Therapy, and the UCLA Luskin School Board of Advisors. He previously served two terms on the Los Angeles County Board of Education, including time as President, working to effectively shape policies and programs in the best interests of students and families. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Alex is a graduate of Morehouse College and American University, Washington College of Law. His writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Guardian, Los Angeles Daily News, San Jose Mercury News, Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, California Health Report, and the Sacramento Bee. Therese H. Maynard is the Leonard Cohen Chair for Law and Business at LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she teaches Business Associations and Mergers & Acquisitions, as well as advanced courses focusing on venture capital financing and the role of in-house lawyers. Maynard is a nationally recognized business law scholar having written numerous law review articles and is also the author of two widely-adopted casebooks: Mergers & Acquisitions: Cases, Materials and Problems (now in its 5th Edition); and Business Planning: Financing the Start-Up and Venture Capital Financing (now in its 4th Edition with her co-author Shannon Trevino). Both casebooks are well known for providing a thoughtful approach to educating law students so that they are well-prepared to practice corporate law. In addition, as Founder of Loyola’s Transactional Lawyering Institute, Maynard has developed a new and innovative curriculum for educating Loyola’s students so that they are ready “to hit the ground running” when they graduate and start practicing business law in a transactional setting.
Professor Maynard received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was Order of the Coif, and her B.A., Summa Cum Laude, from the University of California, Irvine. After graduating law school, Maynard practiced with the law firm of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
Sponsorship Levels
Individual Entry: $300
Tickets for Two: $500
Artist Sponsor : $1,000
– Shared table and tickets for 4
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts
Event Sponsor: $2,500
– Table and tickets for 10
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts
Season Sponsor: $5,000
– Two tables and tickets for 20
– Wine Bottle Service
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts
Organizational Sponsor: $10,000
– Two tables and tickets for 20
– Wine Bottle Service
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters, and e-blasts
– Private rooftop cocktail reception at The Bendix in 2025.
**Heidi Duckler Dance Leadership Circle members receive special accommodations and invitations. To learn how you can join the Leadership Circle, visit here and email raphaelle@heididuckler.org.
Artists Sponsors

Del Amo Construction
Joyce and Aubrey Chernick
Abby Sher
Polsinelli Law Firm

Event Sponsors

Heidi Duckler & Dan Rosenfeld
EHRLICH YANAI RHEE CHANEY Architects
Los Angeles World Airports
GRoW @ Annenberg
California Wellness Foundation

Ebb & Flow: Exposition Park
2024-06-29 10:00 - 12:30 | expostion park, 144 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, United States
Join Us for Ebb & Flow at Exposition Park!
Looking for things to do in LA? Join us at Exposition Park for Heidi Duckler Dance’s beloved Ebb & Flow community arts festival on Saturday, June 29, 2024! This free, family-friendly event offers a unique blend of dance, visual arts, music, and technology, exploring themes of climate change, nature, humanity, and health. It’s one of the best Los Angeles attractions this summer, providing a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Exposition Park is a place of exploration, excitement, and excellence, featuring a collection of world-class museums, educational and sports facilities, and entertainment venues. While you’re here, enjoy the fun of science, math, and technology at the California Science Center, learn about diverse cultural experiences at the California African American Museum, explore natural and cultural worlds at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, or relax in the splendor of the City of Los Angeles Rose Garden.
Whether you’re looking for something to do today or planning activities in the coming weeks, Ebb & Flow at Exposition Park promises a memorable experience for everyone. Don’t miss out on this exciting free arts festival in the heart of Los Angeles!
To ensure future Ebb & Flow festivals can continue to be free and accessible to all, please consider donating at checkout. Your contribution will support the artists and staff who make this event possible!

Before performances begin, we invite you to participate in a fun, community art installation project with HDD Education Director, Belize!
HDD Education Community Art Installation
Join HDD Education Director Belize Wilheim, for upcycled art making! Inspired by Ashton Phillips and Dylan Ricard’s installation “Nest,” we invite you to explore “play, care, and duty” within this community installation. Using discarded materials and your imagination, you can create new life. Will you contribute to building the nest or take shelter as a creature of the nest yourself?
This program is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Program Schedule
Check-in at 10 am
Upcycled Community Art Installation project at 10:00 am
Performances begin promptly at 11:00 am

Featured Artists

Heidi Duckler

Joey Navarrete-Medina

Cody Perkins

Gurmukhi Bevli & Bernice Wang

Ashton Phillips

Zhihan Yang

A message from our Community Partner
The South LA Eco-Lab is transforming South Los Angeles into a healthy, thriving neighborhood — one with lush green spaces, clean air, renewable energy infrastructure, and dynamic mobility options for pedestrians, bikers, and public transit.
This historic revitalization project is funded by a $35 million grant from the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC)’s Transformative Climate Communities Program (TCC). The South LA Eco Lab received the highest score of all submitted TCC proposals and the highest grant amount awarded. The project leverages an additional $24 million in funding to implement economic development through climate action in a 3.9-mile area in the heart of South Los Angeles. The South LA Eco-Lab builds off the work from the South LA Climate Commons, funded under the Round 2 Transformative Climate Communities Planning Grant. To learn more about the 11 sustainability projects being implemented in South LA, visit our website.
SLATE-Z, a federally designated Promise Zone, is proud to serve as the strategic advisor for the South LA Eco-Lab and formed part of the lead applicant team with Community Partners and the City of Los Angeles. SLATE-Z is a collective impact effort focusing on issues of environmental sustainability and economic revitalization in South Los Angeles, working with around 100 cross-sector partners.

Unfurling: The Old L.A. Zoo
2024-06-08 19:00 - 20:00 | Griffith park, 4801 Griffith Park Dr,, Los, CA, 90027, United States
Experience the enchantment of a Heidi Duckler Dance performance during golden hour, as we transform into luminous pollen poufs and embark on a captivating journey through the historic ruins of the Old L.A. Zoo.
A one-night-only, site-specific collaboration between Heidi Duckler Dance and muralist Kim West. West’s installation includes sculptural fabric flows, a mural assembled from 2,000 handmade ceramic pieces, and an illustration of nebulous flora forms, that form a performance about the joyful imagery of flowers, color, and wonder.
As the soft glow of light bathes the scene and the sun sets behind Bee Rock, Heidi Duckler Dance’s choreography guides phosphoric luminescent performers amidst the ruins, leading the audience on a mesmerizing journey of discovery and imagination.
Featured Artists

Heidi Duckler | Choreographer
Heidi Duckler Dance transforms spaces through the power of contemporary movement.
By migrating off the stage and into surrounding environments, Heidi Duckler Dance invites audiences to see their communities in a new light.
Heidi Duckler Dance was founded in 1985 on the belief that the arts can change our vision of the world – and of ourselves. The company’s contemporary dance approach values freedom, community, and inclusivity. Through performances, Heidi Duckler Dance reveals avenues in which Los Angeles can become a more inclusive and equitable city.
To date, Heidi Duckler Dance has produced over 500 original site-specific works.
Kim West | Visual Artist & Muralist
Kim West is a Los Angeles painter whose visual arts practice incorporates studio painting, mural making, ceramic building, and installation projects.
West’s work engages with memories, reflections, washy landscapes, and color-forward, often technicolor bright botanical motifs.
Mural imagery may be familiar from work including Only One Way Through, a 5-story mural commissioned by Hauser Wirth on their Downtown L.A. gallery and described as “dreamlike”, in the New York Times, or, by passing Kaleidoscope (How’d Ya Get to be Happiness?) on the PCH in Huntington Beach. The latter, at over 122,000 square feet, is a meandering imagined landscape that clocks in as the largest mural in California.
Performers

Marissa Brown | Dancer

Colleen Loverde | Dancer

Joseph Stevens | Dancer

Musicians

Marta Tiesenga | Musician

Isaac Takeuchi | Musician

Pauline Lay | Musician

Herald In, Examine Throughout
2024-05-18 18:00 - 21:00 | The Proper Hotel-DTLA, 1100 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 90015
We are delighted to announce our biggest performance of the year, taking place against the stunning backdrop of the Herald Examiner Building and inside the Downtown LA Proper Hotel on Saturday, May 18, 2024.
“Herald In, Examine Throughout,” will unfold along Broadway Street between 11th and 12th downtown, closed to the public, but open with 20 artists and musicians, including a grand piano for one night only! Collaborating with Keith Thompson of Arizona State University’s School of Music, Dance, and Theatre, this project seeks to illuminate the socioeconomic disparities in Downtown Los Angeles while chronicling the city’s ongoing evolution.
From witnessing elegant roller-skating dancers adorned in exquisite ball gowns, and intricate cut-out installations by the talented visual artist, Jazmín Urrea, to experiencing live music featuring indigenous instruments, unique drum beats, and old-school boomboxes, the audience will travel on a clockwise journey throughout the breathtaking multimedia performances.
The Herald Examiner Building, a historic landmark erected in 1913, serves as a poignant symbol of Downtown Los Angeles’ rich history, encompassing its rise, fall, and ongoing redevelopment. Drawing inspiration from this storied past, “Herald In, Examine Throughout” aims to spark civic engagement across generations by reinvigorating tales of Downtown Los Angeles in captivating and thought-provoking ways, while also celebrating the city’s thriving artistic community.
Event Schedule
Doors open at 6 pm
Performance begins promptly at 7 pm

Featured artists include
Heidi Duckler | Artistic Director Jessie Cox | Composer Keith Thompson | Choreographer Jobel Medina | Choreographer Jazmín Urrea | Visual Artist Sophie Akoury | Designer Tomoko Ozawa | Pianist Kelsey Guy | Roller Skater William Roper | Musician Joanna Lynn-Jacobs | Singer Linnea Powell | Violinist Adrianne Pope | Violinist Marta Tiesenga | Musician/Saxophonist Marissa Brown | Dancer Stephanie Kim | Dancer Sasha Rivero | Dancer Santiago Villarreal | Dancer Joseph Stevens | Dancer Rebecca Lee | Dancer Colleen Loverde | Dancer Joey Navarrete-Medina | Dancer Augustine Perez | Dancer Mike Hall | Percussionist
Sponsorship Opportunity
Become a Herald In, Examine Throughout sponsor!
Event Sponsors will receive:

Company logo or name recognition in HDD email blasts (audience of 6,000+), in a HDD social media thank you post, and on HDD’s website.
Four tickets to the Herald In, Examine Throughout performances starting at 7 pm.
Four tickets to the 6 pm pre-event reception at Caldo Verde.

Guests will enjoy beer, wine, and hors d’oeuvres at the reception.
Reception speakers include Keith Thompson (Assistant Director & Associate Professor, ASU School of Music, Dance and Theatre), Jessie Cox (Percussionist and Composer), Nella McOsker (Central City Association President), and Seleta Reynolds (LA Metro Chief Innovation Officer)

Event Sponsors
Orange Barrel Media, Abby Sher, Vera Campbell, Heidi Duckler & Dan Rosenfeld
This project is supported in part by

Special thanks to Heather’s Angels Bnb

Rooftop Residency March 2024
2024-03-24 10:15 - 12:15 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join Heidi Duckler Dance’s Artist in Residence, Jobel Medina, for another installation of our outdoor movement workshop on the iconic Bendix building rooftop.
Explore the fundamentals of site-specific dance on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 10:15 AM-12:15 PM.
This class is open to all levels.
Contact jessica@heididuckler.org for more information and financial assistance inquiries.

MAP Live! Final Performance
2024-03-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join the MAP Live participants as they debut their final performances, using techniques learned during our immersive, three-day workshop.

MAP Live! Workshop
2024-03-15 - 2024-03-17 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join us for this year’s MAP Live workshop (formerly known as Architecture Through the Body), taking place on March 15th, 2024-March 17th, 2024 at the historical, Bendix building.
Heidi Duckler Dance’s annual workshop is rooted in combining movement, art, and performance. Across three days, participants learn from professionals in various fields to explore the ways we define space.
The workshop is taught by professionals in the fields of dance, storytelling, and architecture. Participants are then able to create original art with the information they’ve been taught. Teaching artists provide feedback on the work as it progresses, and the workshop concludes with a public final performance.
Contact Jamie Gallo at jamie@heididuckler.org for information about our work–study program. Eligible participants will receive a 50% discount on the registration fee.
Class Descriptions
Movement
In this portion of the workshop participants will focus on creating phrases by using the space around us, props and sound. Class will begin with a warm up to help become grounded and open to movement and creation. Dance is in everything and is not bound to one place and has the ability to transform spaces and objects. We will explore those themes and challenge ourselves to think outside the box within the realm of movement and choreography.
Architecture
In this portion of the workshop, participants’ focus will revolve around mapping, with a particular emphasis on capturing movement within space. The history of Information graphics and the various methods used to chart data and map space will be covered first. This will prompt participants to imagine the act of mapping differently and perceive it as a creative artistic tool beyond just a visual aid. Next, participants will learn about mapping in 2D and 3D by covering both surfaces and multidimensional space using different techniques and materials, from conventional tape and strings to innovative tools that challenge traditional boundaries.
By tracing movements and stories within the spaces we inhabit, workshop attendees will reimagine maps as avenues for artistic expression through which we explore the interplay between space, form, and movement.
Production
In this lecture-based class, students will learn the basic structures of storytelling in a site-specific, immersive experience context and how that can translate into their own choreographic work. Students will also create a zine to implement those structures that they can use as tools to further expand for their final performance.
Immersion
The audience journey workshop will consider how space can be disassembled and reassembled, contracted and expanded as the audience becomes a part of the content and the flow. We will explore how what is inside you, all of the associations and references can become the structure, the physical container and how we can foreground our intentions to include the experience of the audience.
Workshop Schedule
DAY ONE – Friday, March 15th, 2024 | 3:00 PM – 9:45 PM
Schedule

3:00 – 5:00 pm – Storytelling #1 (LEAD ARTIST: Shoji Yamasaki)
5:00 – 5:15 pm – Break
5:15 – 7:15 pm – Movement Workshop (LEAD ARTIST: Sasha )
7:15 – 7:45 pm – DINNER BREAK
7:45 – 9:45 pm – Architecture Workshop (LEAD ARTIST: Sophie )
10:00pm OUT

DAY TWO – Saturday, March 16, 2024 | 9:00 AM – 5:15 PM
Schedule

9:00 – 11:00 am – Creation / Prep – Planning Session with (LEAD ARTISTS: Shoji, Sasha & Sophie)
11:00 – 11:10 am Transition/ Break
11:10 – 12:00 pm – Creation / Prep
12:00 – 1:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm Audience Flow in an Immersive Experience Workshop (LEAD ARTIST: Heidi)
3:00 – 3:15 pm Break
3:15 – 4:45 pm – WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWING / FEEDBACK WITH LEAD ARTISTS
5:00 pm OUT

DAY THREE – Sunday March 17, 2024 | 10:00 AM – 6:30 PM
Schedule

10:00 – 10:50 am – Movement Warm Up – (LEAD ARTIST: Sasha Rivero)
10:50 – 11:00 am Transition/Break
11:00 – 1:00 pm – Creation / Prep
1:00 – 1:30 pm – LUNCH
1:30 – 3:00 pm – Creation / Prep
3:00 – 3:30 pm Transition / Break
3:30 – 4:00 pm – Doors Open / Public Open / Reception
4:00 – 6:00 pm – FINAL SHOWING + RECEPTION

2024 MAP Live Teaching Artists

Immersion | Heidi Duckler
Heidi Duckler is the Founder and Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance in Los Angeles, California and Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Titled the “reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the LA Times, Duckler is a pioneer of site-specific place based contemporary practice. Through the use of expanded techniques and a methodology that encourages us to understand how dance, born from our experience, can be a tool for awareness, Duckler has contributed to redefining the field and has created more than 400 dance pieces all over the world.
Duckler was the recipient of the 2021 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship and most recently, her film “Where We’re Going” has been selected for first prize by the Cinedanza Festival jury amongst 28 films from around the world. “Where We’re Going” was also selected for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) Digital Media Wall in their new building in downtown Sacramento, scheduled to premiere in 2022. Currently, Duckler is on faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Film and Media Studies Department.
Duckler earned a BS in Dance from the University of Oregon and an MA in Choreography from UCLA, and served as a Board Member of the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance Advancement Council. Awards include the Distinguished Dance Alumna award from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, the Dance/USA and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Engaging Dance Audiences award, and the National Endowment of the Arts American Masterpiece award. Duckler was a recipient of the 2019 Oregon Dance Film Commission and her work received the award for Best Choreography for the Lens at Verve Dance Film Festival

Movement | Sasha Rivero
Sasha Rivero is a first generation American performing artist multi-hyphenate – dancer, singer and model. She was raised by her Belizean mother and older siblings in Los Angeles, CA. She attended Alexander Hamilton Performance Arts high school where she trained under Debbie Allen’s academy director Karen McDonald in ballet, modern, hip-hop, and jazz.
Alongside her dance training, Sasha pursued her other passions and also trained in voice, acting and musical theater. She then continued her dance studies at UCLA in the Glorya Kaufman World Arts and Cultures department where she graduated with a B.A. in dance studies and a minor in English Literature. Sasha signed with Bloc Talent Agency in her last year at UCLA and has been pursuing her professional dance career ever since. She has performed the works of choreographers like Daniel Ezralow, Ryan Heffington, Denna Thomsen, Jillian Meyers, Tina Landon, and Fatima Robinson to name a few. Sasha has worked on films, music videos, commercials, and immersive and site specific works.
Her credits include Heidi Duckler Dance Company, The Weekend, L.A. Opera, San Francisco Symphony, Fat Joe, Maluma, Doechii, Hozier, Jhené Aiko, The Grammy’s, The Voice, Disney, HBO, and NBC. Her passion for creating art continues to lead her down a path of exploration, oftentimes weaving together singing and dancing.

Architect | Sophie Akoury
Sophie Akoury is a multidisciplinary designer working within set design, furniture, animation, and architecture.
Sophie received her Master’s in Architecture from the Southern Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where she was awarded the Gehry Prize in 2022 for her archival multimedia installation reimagining LA River’s history.
She holds a Bachelor’s from l’Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in Beirut.
She has co-taught at SCI-Arc and has been invited as a visiting critic to Pratt, Syracuse University, and USC.
Sophie is currently a junior architect at Yoram LePair Architects and has previously worked at award-winning offices such as Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates (YTAA) in Paris and Bureau Spectacular in Los Angeles.

Production | Shoji Yamasaki
Shoji Yamasaki is a transdisciplinary choreographer, performer, director, writer, and filmmaker born and raised on the unceded ancestral land of Gabrielino-Tongva, recently known as Los Angeles. His work encompasses a multitude of topics that combine mimicry, translation, and storytelling that dismantles one-sided perception and challenges the viewer’s social norms. Combining his experiences, he creates site-specific and immersive experiences that allows the audience to become storytellers themselves.
He completed his B.A. Degree in World Arts and Cultures (Dance Concentration) and a minor in Spanish from UCLA in 2011 and his M.F.A. Degree in Choreography from California Institute of the Arts in 2023. Throughout his career, he has worked with choreographers such as Dimitri Chamblas, Heidi Duckler, Keith Glassman, Carol McDowell, Matthew Rushing, and Rebecca Pappas. His works have been presented at locations such as the Jerry Moss Plaza at the Music Center, REDCAT (Roy Edna Disney/CalArts Theater), Odyssey Theater, Gibney Dance (New York), and Conservatorio de Danza México (Mexico).

Rooftop Residency
2024-02-25 10:15 - 12:15 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join Heidi Duckler Dance’s Artist in Residence, Jobel Medina, for a two-part outdoor movement workshop exploring the fundamentals of site-specific dance on the iconic Bendix building rooftop in downtown Los Angeles!
This class is open to all levels.
Contact jessica@heididuckler.org for more information and financial assistance inquiries.
HDD Artist-in-Residence Jobel Medina

Jobel Medina (Filipino, b. 1990) is a Los Angeles-based creative and performer. Born and raised in the Philippines, Jobel migrated to the U.S. at the age of twelve. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance at California State University, Long Beach and Masters of Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts.
He has been a member of Ate9 Dance Company since 2017, where he works closely with Danielle Agami and performed works by Shahar Binyamini and Tom Weinberger. Early in 2020, he performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall as an actor/dancer for Simon McBurney’s “Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins.” In 2018, Jobel was one of the six interpreters to perform Tino Sehgal’s “Selling Out, (2002)” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA. As a freelancer, he’s worked with choreographers such as Christopher Bordenave of No1 Art House, Kate Wallich and The YC, Ania Catherine & Dehja Ti, Rebecca Lemme, Keith Johnson, Andrew Winghart, Whyteberg, and has appeared in multiple music videos and entertainment performances
Heidi Duckler Dance warmly welcomed Jobel Medina to the Artist-in-Residence program this year. Jobel has collaborated with HDD Founder, Heidi Duckler since 2022

Rooftop Residency
2024-02-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join Heidi Duckler Dance’s Artist in Residence, Jobel Medina, for a two-part outdoor movement workshop exploring the fundamentals of site-specific dance on the iconic Bendix building rooftop in downtown Los Angeles!
This class is open to all levels.
Contact jessica@heididuckler.org for more information and financial assistance inquiries.
HDD Artist-in-Residence Jobel Medina

Jobel Medina (Filipino, b. 1990) is a Los Angeles-based creative and performer. Born and raised in the Philippines, Jobel migrated to the U.S. at the age of twelve. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance at California State University, Long Beach and Masters of Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts.
He has been a member of Ate9 Dance Company since 2017, where he works closely with Danielle Agami and performed works by Shahar Binyamini and Tom Weinberger. Early in 2020, he performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall as an actor/dancer for Simon McBurney’s “Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins.” In 2018, Jobel was one of the six interpreters to perform Tino Sehgal’s “Selling Out, (2002)” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA. As a freelancer, he’s worked with choreographers such as Christopher Bordenave of No1 Art House, Kate Wallich and The YC, Ania Catherine & Dehja Ti, Rebecca Lemme, Keith Johnson, Andrew Winghart, Whyteberg, and has appeared in multiple music videos and entertainment performances
Heidi Duckler Dance warmly welcomed Jobel Medina to the Artist-in-Residence program this year. Jobel has collaborated with HDD Founder, Heidi Duckler since 2022.

Truth or Consequences: Unfolding the Untold
2024-02-04 17:00 - 20:00 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join us for an evening of performances, interactive installations, live music, complimentary wine and delicious food by Dulan’s Soul Food Kitchen.
Our first salon in 2024 is inspired by the different perspectives expressed by creatives whose voices we may not have heard. These different perspectives can stimulate our imagination and help us discover new ideas.
Meet the Artists

Jobel Medina
Jobel Medina (Filipino, b. 1990) is a Los Angeles based creative and performer. Born and raised in the Philippines, Jobel migrated to the U.S. at the age of twelve. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance at California State University, Long Beach and Masters of Fine Arts at California Institute of the Arts.
He has been a member of Ate9 Dance Company since 2017, where he works closely with Danielle Agami and performed works by Shahar Binyamini and Tom Weinberger. Early in 2020, he performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall as an actor/dancer for Simon McBurney’s “Weimar Nightfall: The Seven Deadly Sins.” In 2018, Jobel was one of the six interpreters to perform Tino Sehgal’s “Selling Out, (2002)” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, CA. As a freelancer, he’s worked with choreographers such as Christopher Bordenave of No1 Art House, Kate Wallich and The YC, Ania Catherine & Dehja Ti, Rebecca Lemme, Keith Johnson, Andrew Winghart, Whyteberg, and has appeared in multiple music videos and entertainment performances
Heidi Duckler Dance warmly welcomed Jobel Medina to the Artist-in-Residence program this year. Jobel has collaborated with HDD Founder, Heidi Duckler, since 2022.
Dorian Wood
Dorian Wood (she/her they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her intent of “infecting” spaces and ideologies with her artistic practice is born from a desire to challenge traditions and systems that have contributed to the marginalization of people.
Wood has performed at institutions that include The Broad, Los Angeles, CA (2018), REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA (2019), Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA (2010), Museo Nacional Del Prado, Madrid, Spain (2019), the City Hall of Madrid, Spain (2015), Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, Mexico City, Mexico (2019), Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2017), Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany (2014), Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (2014) and Moods, Zurich, Switzerland (2019), and at festivals that include Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, CA (2011), OUTsider Fest, Austin, TX (2019), Festival Cruilla, Barcelona, Spain (2017), WorldPride Madrid, Spain (2017), Festivals Kometa, Riga, Latvia (2016), Moers Festival, Germany (2017), Cully Jazz Festival, Switzerland (2015) and Saint Ghetto Festival, Bern, Switzerland (2017).
From 2019 to 2020, Wood completed several successful international tours with their chamber orchestra tribute to Chavela Vargas, XAVELA LUX AETERNA. In 2022, Wood debuted their tribute to the singer Lhasa De Sela, entitled LHASA, at the Festival Internacional de Arte Sacro in Madrid, in collaboration with singer Carmina Escobar and composer Adrián Cortés. That same year, Wood presented Mares Ocultos, a multimedia chamber music project exploring the nature of male heterosexuality, at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. In 2023, Wood premiered the 12-hour composition/installation Canto de Todes at REDCAT in Los Angeles.
Jeonghyeon Joo
Jeonghyeon Joo is a haegeum performer/composer based in Los Angeles and Seoul. Her practice includes performance, composition, improvisation, artistic research, collaboration, writing, and teaching. She explores the physical, social, cultural, and political relationship between the performer and instrument, frequently collaborating with filmmakers, visual artists, composers, and performance artists.
She is a recipient of the Arts Council Korea’s Grant for Pioneering Artists of the Next Generation in Traditional Arts, the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture’s Grant for Emerging Artists in Performing Arts, the Presidential Award of Korea, and the First Prize at the KBS Korean Music Competition among others.
In addition to performing and composing, she has frequently given lectures and presented her works at institutions and conferences across North America and Asia, such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, CalArts, UC Riverside, San Francisco State University, San Diego State University, Seoul National University, International Computer Music Conference, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Composition in Asia International Symposium, Philosophical Research Center, and Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles. Her writings can be found in a journal, Korean Contemporary Composers and Compositions, and the program books of The Art of Bowing and EXERCISE, her large-scale performance projects.
She received a Doctor of Musical Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CA, United States) and earned a Master of Arts and Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea). She is currently an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Arts at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and serves as a Program Director at CultureHub.
Ramya Harishankar
Ramya Harishankar is the artistic director of the Arpana Dance Company (ADC) and School, a premier school of Bharata Natyam in California and the United States.
Named a ‘legacy artist’ by the California Arts Council, Harishankar was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship recently. She was named ‘Distinguished citizen’ by the city of Irvine and selected for the Wall of Recognition for her contribution to the cultural landscape. Earlier in 2022, she was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement award by the LA based Soorya Foundation.
M A Harms
M A Harms is a Los Angeles-based composer, performer, and instrument builder who explores the intersections between grief, gender, and sex through a combination of text and sound. Their practice centers performance art and interdisciplinarity, imagining and creating sound using sculptural installations, found objects, electronics, mannequins, and placing equal significance on the visual experience of their work. M navigates literal stories and personal life events via sound practice, obscuring them to the point that they begin to bridge the gap between individual and “universal” experiences.

As a percussionist and interdisciplinary performance artist, M has worked with artists including Eric Lennartson, Daniel Newman-Lessler, and Jeonghyeon Joo. They received their MFA from California Institute of the Arts, where they studied with Tim Feeney and Nicholas Deyoe.
David Eskenazi
David Eskenazi (he/him) leads d.esk, a practice based in Los Angeles, with current projects in California and Mexico. Alongside the practice, David writes and teaches, with publications in journals including Log, Project, Offramp, and Pidgin. He’s been awarded the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York, the Oberdick Fellowship at the University of Michigan, the LeFevre Fellowship at the Ohio State University, and was a MacDowell Fellow.
Santiago Villarreal
Santiago Villarreal, found his passion for dance at age 16. In May 2019 he graduated with a BFA in Dance Performance from Chapman University. During his time at Chapman University, Santiago has worked with choreographers such as; Ido Tadmor, Dwight Rhoden, Wilson Mendieta, Julianne O’Brien, to name a few. Additionally, he has attended workshops from companies including BODYTRAFFIC, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Backhausdance. In 2017 Santiago joined Backhausdance as an apprentice. With Backhaus, Santiago performed works by Walter Matteini, Mauro Astolfi, Dwight Rhoden, Yony Soutchy and Jennifer Backhaus. Santiago is now a Backhausdance company member and freelance dancer and choreographer based in Los Angeles, California, where he has had the opportunity to work with LA-based companies such as Jacob Jonas The Company, Hedi Duckler, and Ate9.
Joey Navarrete-Medina
Meet Joey Navarrete-Medina, a first-generation queer, Mexican American dance artist based in Los Angeles. Joey (He/they) is all about mixing his diverse background into contemporary dance.
Joey holds a BFA in Dance from CSULB, plus certifications in Pilates from BASI, a teaching certification from LMU’s Yoga and The Healing Sciences program, and an MFA in Dance from UCI. He’s performed at several places in California and Mexico, with collaborator Rosa Rodriguez Frazier, sharing their cultural blend through dance.
Interested in teaching diverse populations, too; Joey has balanced work at UCI, AB Miller High School, and the Club Pilates studio chain, focusing on getting everyone to move and groove, especially students who might not often get the chance. Joey seamlessly integrates Pilates principles into dance instruction through his teaching, emphasizing body awareness, strength, and alignment to enhance students’ dance technique and overall well-being.
As a freelancer, Joey jumps into physical theater, concert dance, and commercial work, and is all about shaking up contemporary dance, making it more welcoming, and making every move count.
Cody Perkins
Cody Perkins (also known as Algorythm.Code) is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Sylmar, California. He attended the Alexander Hamilton Music Academy as a Performance and Electronic Music major and continued his studies with a focus on photography and audio engineering at Cal State Dominguez Hills. His work has been shown in institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, The Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, The Hammer, And the Los Angeles Archive. He has scored numerous films and installations for brands and artists, is the founder of the musical collective The Algorythms and has produced music for many independent genre-bending musicians locally and internationally.

Truth or Consequences: Belonging in the World
2023-12-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
Join us at the historic Bendix building for the newest installment in our renowned salon series, Truth or Consequences: Belonging in the World.
Experience the essence of true belonging with us, throughout an evening of performance, an animated interactive installation, complimentary spirits, burritos, and live music!
Cocktail hour starts at 5 pm. Performances begin at 6 pm.
Truth or Consequences: Belonging in the World explores finding a profound connection and acceptance within the intricate tapestry of human existence, where one’s unique identity harmoniously integrates with the diverse threads of shared humanity.
This salon celebrates the way we seek connection as people with multiple perspectives. How do we accept ourselves, how do we extend ourselves to others? Through music, movement, culture, composition, and the sharing of our table, we invest in each other and devise new arrangements to foster human bonds.
“Discover a world where individuality seamlessly intertwines with the rich fabric of shared humanity—Experience the essence of true belonging with us.” Heidi Duckler | Founder and Artistic Director
Heidi Duckler is the Founder and Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance in Los Angeles, California, and Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Titled the “reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the LA Times, Duckler is a pioneer of site-specific place-based contemporary practice. Through the use of expanded techniques and a methodology that encourages us to understand how dance, born from our experience, can be a tool for awareness, Duckler has contributed to redefining the field and has created more than 400 dance pieces all over the world.
Duckler was the recipient of the 2021 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship and most recently, her film “Where We’re Going” has been selected for first prize by the Cinedanza Festival jury amongst 28 films from around the world. “Where We’re Going” was also selected for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) Digital Media Wall in their new building in downtown Sacramento, scheduled to premiere in 2022. Currently, Duckler is on faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Film and Media Studies Department.
Duckler earned a BS in Dance from the University of Oregon and an MA in Choreography from UCLA, and served as a Board Member of the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance Advancement Council. Awards include the Distinguished Dance Alumna award from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, the Dance/USA and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Engaging Dance Audiences award, and the National Endowment of the Arts American Masterpiece award. Duckler was a recipient of the 2019 Oregon Dance Film Commission and her work received the award for Best Choreography for the Lens at Verve Dance Film Festival.

Raymond Ejiofor | Associate Artistic Director
Raymond Ejiofor began his dance training under Judith Rhodes Calgaro in Arlington, VA and the Dance Theater of Harlem. He has since danced for artists such as Katy Perry, Sia, Pharrell Williams, Dua Lipa, and Daft Punk.
Under the direction of Greer Reed, Ejiofor was a founding member of the August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble. Ejiofor also collaborates with various companies in Los Angeles. In 2023, he was named the Associate Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance after finishing his time as an artist in residence with the company.

As a teaching artist, Ejiofor has been a faculty member/master class instructor at a number of studios and universities in Los Angeles and the Greater Pittsburgh region, including AMDA Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. A dynamic supporter of the arts, Ejiofor served on the Board of Directors for HDAT in Pittsburgh, PA.
Ejiofor holds a master’s of public health policy from the University of Southern California and is a recipient of the Gates Millennium Fellowship. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Decision Science and a double minor in engineering studies and technology and policy.

Jiryis Murkus Ballan | Musician
Palestinian composer, Buzuq player, performer, and musical director, Jiryis, grew up in Nazareth in the Galilee region.
Ballan completed his M.A. studies in the music composition program at SUNY Buffalo as a Fulbright Scholar where he studied with composers Jonathan Golove and Cort Lippe AND focused on concert music, and music for modern dance. Jiryis co-directs The Caravan Orchestra and Choir project, an intercultural orchestra of young Palestinian, Jewish and, and German musicians based in Germany. Before joining the Department of Music at UCI, he worked as a research assistant at the Music Department of the University of Haifa, researching The Urban Arab Palestinian Wedding Music in the Galilee region and the maqam-based music. His research was on the inclusion of the synthesizer in traditional Arab Palestinian music wedding ensembles. Currently, Jiryis is a Ph.D. student in the program of Composition, Improvisation, and Technology at The University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on the creation of a virtual Buzuq while using hidden sounds that he discovered with the instrument’s body and soundboard.

Tong Guan | Filmmaker & Architect
Tong Guan is a trained Architect, who has worked in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. In 2017 she worked for Jean Paul Gaultier’s fashion studio, designing interiors and fashion stage design in Paris.
In 2022 Tong moved to Los Angeles, to study for a postgraduate Fiction and Entertainment degree at Sci-Arc. For her thesis, she created a surrealistic 3D animated film titled, “Paper Dream: The Surreal Shores of Belonging”, which tells the story of a young girl’s search for adventure and belonging.
In the future, Tong wants to combine digital visual design and spatial design to create special immersive experiences as she continues her interest in intertwining the themes of adventure, belonging, identity, and destiny. In all her works, as an architect, artist, and digital designer, Tong strives to develop her own unique aesthetics in finding poetic solutions that soothe our souls while giving us the courage to continue exploration.

Adrian Hoffman | Artist
Adrian Hoffman was born and raised in Cambridge, MA, where they began their training as a martial artist at Davis Sq. Martial Arts. After receiving their Black Belt, they transitioned to dance in high school at the Cambridge School of Weston. They went on to graduate from The Ailey School/Fordham University with a BFA in Dance and a double minor in Philosophy and Math while also pioneering a study abroad exchange with Israel’s Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company.
Adrian is the Artistic Facilitator and founder of Cantankerous Creatures, a Boston-based dance project seeking to strengthen the dance community with kindness and active audience engagement. They currently live in Los Angeles working as a dancer and choreographer. Previously they have been a company member of Whim W’Him, a guest dancer with Alvin Ailey and BODYTRAFFIC, danced in music videos for Blink-182 and Justin Beiber among others, freelanced on stage, TV, and film, and appeared as a featured dancer in Greta Gerwig’s recent remake of Little Women.

Mawusi Nenonene | Artist
MawusiSarah is a dance artist based in Los Angeles. Her work is driven by the timeless relationship between movement, human nature, and the living earth.
She recently completed her MFA in Choreography at the University of Ghana, after receiving her BA in Dance Medicine & Management from Baldwin Wallace University. Throughout her career, she has performed with Cleveland Inner City Ballet, North Pointe Ballet, and Zbu Entertainment. She has also presented her work at the Cleveland Dance Festival, American Dance Festival’s Student Showcase, and Ballet Inc. The Series: IV Showcase, and The Ghana Dance Festival. She is extremely thankful for this opportunity and excited to participate in this collaborative experience.

Alejandro Perez | Artist
Alejandro Perez is a first-generation Mexican-American from Los Angeles. Alejandro received a full scholarship to be a part of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Training program in 2016. After his first year at Lines, he was announced the full scholarship recipient for the 85th Gala Anniversary at the Jacobs Pillow 2017 Ballet Summer Program. In recent years Alejandro has performed for several companies as well as freelancing in concert and commercial work getting to work with and meet other talented artists.

Zhihan Yang | Artist
Los Angeles-based choreographer, dancer and educator Zhihan Yang received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and BFA from Beijing Dance Academy. She is dedicated to researching the relationship between movement, installation, and multimedia. Yang also explores the different forms of the body on camera and the reflection of identity between communities in different contexts.
Yang has been active in theater, media, film, and education in recent years, working with companies such as the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Yaya Dance Academy, and the San Musae Cultural Center. Her recent works include the orchestral trio choreography “THEA MUSGRAVE: Pierrot” (2023), the dance theater “Am I Susan” (2022), the physical theater “XXX” (2022), the quintet “Gladiola” (2021), and the dance films “Question” (2022), “Rush” (2021), “Refresh” (2021) and “Retrospect” (2021).

I Will Remember What I Forgot
2023-11-02 12:30 - 13:30 | CA
Experience a performance, where Heidi Duckler Dance artists, accompanied by live music, lead you through the fifth floor of the new Behavioral Center, in search of a safe space for well-being and mental health.

CURRENT - 38th Anniversary Celebration
2023-10-07 17:00 - 22:00 | 205 S Mission Rd, 205 S Mission Rd, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, United States
Event Timeline
Reception and Raffle: 5 pm
Sunset Performance: 6 pm
Dinner and Ceremony: 6:30 pm
Evening Performance by Heidi Duckler + Raymond Ejiofor: 8pm
Immersive Experience and Dancing to Live Band: 8:30pm
Auction: 9pm-9:30pm
Sponsorship Levels
Individual Entry: $300
Tickets for Two: $500
Artist Sponsor : $1,000
– Shared table and tickets for 4
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts
Event Sponsor: $2,500
– Table and tickets for 10
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts
Season Sponsor: $5,000
– Two tables and tickets for 20
– Wine Bottle Service
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts
Organizational Sponsor: $10,000
– Two tables and tickets for 20
– Wine Bottle Service
– Company logo or name listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts
– Private rooftop cocktail reception at The Bendix in 2024.
**Heidi Duckler Dance Leadership Circle members receive special accommodations and invitations. To learn how you can join the Leadership Circle, please email raven@heididuckler.org.
RSVP
OR Mail a check made out to “Heidi Duckler Dance” to 1206 Maple Ave. Suite 1100B, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Questions: Please email Raphaelle Ziemba, Managing Director, at raphaelle@heididuckler.org or call 213-373-0366
Heidi Duckler Dance is a non-profit organization with a 501(c)(3) classification from the Internal Revenue Service. The portion of the contribution that exceeds the fair market value of $50 per individual ticket is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Heidi Duckler Dance – Tax Identification Number: 95-4152270
Honorees
Snehal Desai – Artistic Vision Award
Incoming Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group
Snehal Desai is the incoming Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group (CTG), one of the largest regional theaters in the country. He is a champion of building community through compelling, transformative artistic works. Snehal comes to CTG, after seven years as the Producing Artistic Director of East West Players, designated an American Cultural Treasure by the Ford Foundation and the nation’s largest and oldest Asian-American theater company. A Soros Fellow and the recipient of a Tanne Award, Desai was in the Inaugural Class of Theatre Communications Group’s (TCG) “Spark” Leadership Program and the Inaugural Recipient of the Drama League’s Classical Directing Fellowship.
While at East West Players, Desai produced and directed the three highest grossing and most attended shows in EWP’s fifty-seven year history including the post Broadway premiere of Allegiance starring George Takei. During his tenure at East West Players, Desai led co-productions with Center Theater Group (CTG), Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Artists Ensemble, the LA LGBT Center, Robey Theater Company, The Fountain Theatre, API Rise, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC) and TaikoProject to name a few. East West Players’ collaboration with singer/songwriter Daniel Ho was nominated for a 2022 Grammy Award. As an artistic leader, Snehal has sought to raise awareness on social issues that affect Angelenos through impactful and empowering storytelling.
Desai has served on the boards of the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists (Caata), Theater Communications Group (TCG) and Los Feliz Charter School for the Arts (LFCSA). He currently serves on the board of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT); is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab; and was a literary fellow with London’s Royal Shakespeare Company. Most recently, Snehal was on the faculty of USC’s graduate program in Arts Leadership where he taught Executive Arts Leadership. He is a graduate of Emory University and the Yale School of Drama. Olga Garay-English – Civic Engagement Award
International Arts Consultant & Director of the National Latinx Theater Initiative
Olga Garay-English is an international arts consultant, a role she embraced in 2014. Ms. Garay-English is a Director of the National Latinx Theater Initiative, which provides multi-year General Operating Support grants and professional development opportunities to Latinx theaters in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Olga is Senior Advisor for International Affairs to Chile’s Fundación Teatro a Mil. She also serves as the consultant for the Artistic Directors of Color Alliance – Greater Los Angeles.
Ms. Garay-English was Executive Director of the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (2008-2014), reporting to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. While at DCA, she raised more than $23 million from private and public funding sources.
Olga was Founding Program Director for the Arts for the Doris Duke Foundation (1998-2005), awarding $145 million in grants to national and international performing arts organizations.
She serves on the Steering Committee of the International Presenting Commons and on Boards of the International Society for Performing Arts (ISPA), South Arts Regional Arts Organization, and Ojai Playwrights Conference, among others. She was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 2012.
She was born in Santa Clara, Cuba. Olga was married to the late Dr. Kerry English, the former director of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pediatric Hub in Watts. Mia Lehrer – Board Impact Award
President and Founder of Studio-MLA
Mia Lehrer, FASLA is president and founder of Studio-MLA, an international landscape architecture, planning, and urban design practice based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Drawing insight from ecological systems, Mia is recognized for a research-based design process that advocates for resilient and just relationships between individuals, communities, and nature. She has led ambitious public and private projects including Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium and associated public parks, Dallas’s Fair Park Community Park, San Francisco’s Levi’s Plaza, the Public Gardens at the LA County Natural History Museum, and many urban river-related planning projects including the Rio Tietê in São Paulo, the LA River Taylor Yard G2 Park, and the Upper LA River & Tributaries Revitalization Plan. A native of El Salvador and educated at Tufts University and the Harvard University GSD, she is the recipient of the Cooper Hewitt/Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2021 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture, Commissioner on the LA Department of Water & Power, and served on President Obama’s U.S. Commission of Fine Arts from 2014-2018.
Special thanks to our sponsors!
Organizational Sponsors
Heidi Duckler and Daniel Rosenfeld

Event Sponsors
Yuval Bar-Zemer
Mia and Michael Lehrer

Artist Sponsors
Lisa and Neil Quateman
Bradley Cox
Abby Sher
Tom Safran

Ebb & Flow @ TheCreek
2023-09-23 09:30 - 12:00 | Overland Ave on the Creek (at the base of the Julian Dixon Library), 4975 Overland Ave, Culver City, CA, 90230, United States
Our free, environmentally focused festival returns for its sixth year with a twist!
This year, we are partnering with Ballona Creek Renaissance to present Ebb & Flow during Heal the Bay’s Coastal Clean Up Day. Multidisciplinary artists will showcase a variety of immersive performances for volunteers to enjoy during the clean up.
Register today to help clean up the creek while experiencing an incredible series of performances! If you are under 18, you must bring this waiver signed by a parent or guardian.
An hour-long series of Ebb & Flow performances will begin at 10AM and again at 11AM. We recommend arriving 30 minutes prior to either performance start time to experience the full interwoven story.
Meet the Artists
Heidi Duckler, Founder/Artistic Director
Heidi Duckler is the founder and artistic director of Heidi Duckler Dance in Los Angeles, California and Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Titled the “reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the LA Times, Duckler is a pioneer of place-based contemporary practice. Her methodology emphasizes how dance, born from individual experience, can be a tool for awareness.
Duckler’s 2019 short film “Where We’re Going” was recently selected for the 2023 Aphelion Film Festival, and her 2022 film “The Tender Bondy Sings” was selected for the 2023 IndieFEST Film Awards Festival. In September, Duckler will speak at the Creatives in Conversation Conference held by the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles chapter. Currently, Duckler is on faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Film and Media Studies Department.
Duckler earned a BS in dance from the University of Oregon and an MA in choreography from UCLA. She also served as a board member of the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance Advancement Council. Her awards include the Distinguished Dance Alumna award from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance; the Dance/USA and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Engaging Dance Audiences Award; and the National Endowment of the Arts American Masterpiece award. Raymond Ejiofor, Associate Artistic Director
Raymond Ejiofor began his dance training under Judith Rhodes Calgaro in Arlington, VA and the Dance Theater of Harlem. He has since danced for artists such as Katy Perry, Sia, Pharrell Williams, Dua Lipa, and Daft Punk.
Under the direction of Greer Reed, Ejiofor was a founding member of August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble. Ejiofor also collaborates with various companies in Los Angeles. In 2023, he was named the associate artistic director of Heidi Duckler Dance after finishing his time as artist in residence with the company.
As a teaching artist, Ejiofor has been a faculty member/master class instructor at a number of studios and universities in Los Angeles and the Greater Pittsburgh region, including AMDA Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. A dynamic supporter of the arts, Ejiofor served on the Board of Directors for HDAT in Pittsburgh, PA.
Ejiofor holds a masters of public health policy from the University of Southern California and is a recipient of the Gates Millennium Fellowship. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Decision Science and double minor in engineering studies and technology and policy. Shoji Yamasaki, Event Creative Director
Shoji Yamasaki is a multidisciplinary choreographer, performer, director and filmmaker. He was born and raised on the unceded ancestral land of the Gabrielino-Tongva people, recently known as Los Angeles.
Yamasaki received his BA in world arts and cultures (dance concentration) with a minor in Spanish from UCLA in 2011. In 2023, he received his MFA in choreography from California Institute of the Arts.
In June 2023, Yamasaki performed in Chanel’s Métier d’art Replica Show at Tokyo Big Sight, directed and choreographed by Dimitri Chamblas. Yamasaki’s works have been presented in Conservatorio de Danza México in Mexico, Meatball and Meshed Potatoes in Korea and across the U.S., including at the Jerry Moss Plaza, the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Electric Lodge, Pieter Performance Space and Gibney Dance.
Yamasaki’s current interests are in site-specific and immersive experiences that allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. Through this work, he encourages viewers to become storytellers themselves by integrating their own personal experiences. Braden Pontoli, Artist
Braden Pontoli is a Los Angeles-based musician, composer, sound artist, producer, conductor and educator. His music and immersive experiences are meditative, invigorating and energizing to audiences.
Pontoli’s recent projects include collaborations with producer Peter Rafelson (Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Elton John) and scoring and editing the podcast “The Last Saturday Night” (Ed Asner, Sherilyn Fenn, Eric Roberts). His music can be heard on many independent film scores and modern dance company performances. In April, he released his first sound and movement sculpture with MorrisonDance for their 25th anniversary show.
Pontoli holds an MFA in music performance and composition from California Institute of the Arts and a BM in music education from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music. Gunita Collective, Artist
Gunita Collective is a multidisciplinary Pilipinx artist collective exploring the intersection of contemporary indigenous narrative and performance. At its core, Gunita stands for communal and collective memory.
Founded by Noelle Marie Falcis-Math, Gunita uses movement artistry, visual expression and narrative storytelling. Through its work, the collective aims to foster conversations about re-memory and intergenerational language. Not wholly movement-oriented nor fully theory-oriented, Gunita merges the academic and the creative, attempting to find the middle ground between different languages. Gunita challenges its artists and audience to connect cultural values and historical presence with contemporary environments. Zhihan Yang, Artist
Los Angeles-based choreographer, dancer and educator Zhihan Yang received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and BFA from Beijing Dance Academy. She is dedicated to researching the relationship between movement, installation and multimedia. Yang also explores the different forms of the body on camera and the reflection of identity between communities in different contexts.
Yang has been active in theater, media, film and education in recent years, working with companies such as the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Museum of Art, the Yaya Dance Academy and the San Musae Cultural Center. Her recent works include the orchestral trio choreography “THEA MUSGRAVE: Pierrot” (2023), the dance theater “Am I Susan” (2022), the physical theater “XXX” (2022), the quintet “Gladiola” (2021), and the dance films “Question” (2022), “Rush” (2021) , “Refresh” (2021) and “Retrospect” (2021). Andrea Soto & Jules Mara, Artists
Andrea Soto (she/her) is a first-generation Mexican American movement-based artist whose multidimensional practice lives in performance, technology, collaboration, and data-gathering as shared collective research. Her work centers around the earthly body as a sacred vessel of pleasure, truth and translation. She holds space to move from the physical environment to the viscera of the body, turning inwards and surrendering into a space that welcomes the sacred. Andrea builds poetic ecosystems that exist as a collection of connectivity, and that are deeply rooted in the mystical dismantling of hierarchical-systems and in a utopian world of boundless interconnectedness. Her creations, which have been exhibited at Human Resources LA and Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater, serve as a celebration and exploration of ancestral heritage; with a deep reverence for her roots, she holds spaces within her processes for the power of the collective as it embraces vulnerability, inclusivity and community.
As a freelance dancer, she has worked closely with renowned choreographers such as Yusha-Marie Sorzano, Dimitri Chamblas, Rosie Herrera, Julie Tolentino, Sam Wentz, JOJO ABOT, Alexsa Durrans, and Annalee Traylor; and has been part of works at Culture Hub’s Re-Fest, MOCA, REDCAT, L.A. Dance Project, and Centre National de la Danse in Paris.
Jules Mara is a Non-Binary multidisciplinary artist from Round Rock, Texas, known for pushing boundaries and challenging societal norms through captivating dance performances. With a diverse background in various dance forms and training at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Jules seamlessly blends technical precision with raw emotion, inviting audiences to delve into the complexities of their own lives. They do this through their skills of choreography and fashion design.
As a collaborator and choreographer, Jules crafts thought-provoking works that explore darker themes with a fresh perspective. Drawing inspiration from horror and southern traditions, they shed new light on these topics, sparking conversations and evoking powerful emotions. Their performances, which have been displayed at RedCat, LA Dance project, Sharon Disney Lund, The Ebell of Los Angeles, and Stomping Ground LA, weave together vulnerability, strength, and an intensity that leave a lasting impact on audiences through movement and world building.

Architecture Through the Body Workshop
2023-07-14 - 2023-07-16 | The Ebell of LA, 4401 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90005, United States
Architecture Through the Body focuses on how architecture relates to movement and sound. Learn from renowned professionals in dance, music, and architecture during this three-day workshop.
TEACHING ARTISTS
MOVEMENT | Raymond Ejiofor & JM. Rodriguez
ARCHITECTURE | Nefer Fernandez
SOUND | Justin Scheid + Annabelle Freedman
Over the course of the workshop, you will research architectural design and use your findings to create an original work. After a series of seminars from the teaching artists, you will receive feedback on your work. You will present your final work in a free public showing.
We have 15 spaces available for this workshop. The workshop is open to professionals, beginners, and artists from every field. Sign up now to confirm your spot.
Contact Raphaelle Ziemba at raphaelle@heididuckler.org for information about our work-study program. Eligible participants will receive a 50% discount on the registration fee.
Location
The Ebell of Los Angeles
743 S Lucerne Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90005
Workshop will be happening on the third floor.
Schedule
DAY ONE – JULY 14 | 3:00 pm – 9:45 pm
3:00 – 5:00 pm | Sound Workshop
5:00 – 5:15 pm | Break
5:15 – 7:15 pm | Movement Workshop
7:15 – 7:45 pm | Dinner Break
7:45 – 9:45 pm | Architecture Workshop
DAY TWO – JULY 15 | 9:00 am – 4:45 pm
9:00 – 9:50 am | Movement Warm Up
9:50 am – 10:00 am | Transition/Break
10:00 am – 12:00 pm | Creation/Prep (Participants will work on their creations; teaching artist Raymond Ejiofor will be available for feedback)
12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 pm | Creation/Prep
3:00 – 3:15 pm | Break
3:15 – 4:45 pm | Work in Progress Showing (All teaching artist feedback discussion )
DAY THREE – JULY 16 | 10:00 am – 6:30 pm
10:00 – 10:50 am | Movement Warm Up
10:50 – 11:00 am | Transition/Break
11:00 am – 1:00 pm | Creation/Prep
1:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch
1:30 – 3:30 | Creation/Prep
3:30 – 4:00 pm | Transition/Break
4:00 – 5:00 pm | Doors Open/Public Open/Reception
5:00 – 6:30 pm | Final Showing and Reception
Note: This schedule is subject to change.
Meet the Teaching Artists
Raymond Ejiofor
Raymond Ejiofor holds a Masters of Public Health Policy from University of Southern California and is a recipient of the prestigious Gates Millennium Fellowship. Raymond graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Decision Science and double minor in Engineering Studies and Technology and Policy. Raymond began his training under Judith Rhodes Calgaro in Arlington, VA and the Dance Theater of Harlem. While balancing academics and artistry Raymond has worked with various choreographers including Daniel Ezralow, Aszure Barton, Ryan Heffington, Lula Washington, Sidra Bell, Camille A. Brown, Kyle Abraham, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Cindy Salgado, Cindera Che, Nina McNeely, Bryan Arias, Danielle Agami, Christopher Huggins, and Robert Battle. Some of his performance credits include Audi | Shanghai, Toshiba International Industrial, Samsung, Apple, 59th Annual Grammy Awards, American Music Awards 2018, MTV VMAs 2017, Beijing Dance Festival, Israeli Opera House, Springboard Danse Montreal, LA Phil, SummerStage NYC, Jazz Dance World Congress, and Pittsburgh Opera.
Ejiofor has danced for artists such as Katy Perry, Sia, Pharrell Williams, Dua Lipa, Little Boots, 30 Seconds to Mars, Gerard Way, The Acid, Moullinex, Fitz and the Tantrums and Daft Punk. Ejiofor joined the company of dance theater production PEARL, which premiered at Lincoln Center | David H. Koch Theater and continues to tour around the world. Under the direction of Greer Reed, Ejiofor was a founding member of August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (AWCDE), which was named “25 to Watch” in 2012 by Dance Magazine. Ejiofor currently collaborates with various companies such as Ezralow Dance, Ate9 Dance Company, David Roussève / REALITY, Heidi Duckler Dance, Lula Washington Dance Theater, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, Kevin Williamson Dance, Pony Box Dance Theater, Post Ballet, and Brice Mousset’s Oui Danse.
As a teaching artist, he has been a faculty member/master class instructor of number of studios and universities in Los Angeles and the Greater Pittsburgh region such as AMDA Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh, Laura Lynn’s School of Dance, Hill Dance Academy Theater (HDAT), Camino Nuevo Charter Schools, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Morgantown Dance, Abby Lee Dance Company, Candy Apples Dance Studio and Ryan Heffington’s The Sweat Spot. A dynamic supporter of the arts Ejiofor served on the Board of Directors for HDAT in Pittsburgh, PA. He is currently the artist in residence at Heidi Duckler Dance. JM. Rodriguez
An LA native, JM. Rodriguez graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where he trained in Ballet, Horton (under the mentorship of legendary Horton Master Don Martin), and Luigi Jazz.
JM. since has been working both commercially, as well in the concert dance scene. After being signed with agents at 19, JM. began working as a professional dancer for tv shows and touring shows. He’s worked with artists such as Katy Perry, Arcade Fire, and The Maria’s; has danced in shows such as Disney’s Shake It Up, Apple TV’s ROAR, Disney Plus’ Mysterious Benedict Society, and Netflix’s Dear White People; has worked with choreographers such as Nina McNeely, Fatima Robinson, Marguerite Derricks, Ryan Heffington, and many more. Since summer of 2012, JM. has been performing and touring as a company member with the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company and has had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Christian Denice, Roderick George, Alice Clock, and Whytberg (founders of GroundGrooves) to name a few. With over 10 years of experience in both working commercially and in the company world, JM. has begun to fuse together his own mix of contemporary, that incorporates much of his horton roots, with a mix of commercial-esque musicality, and contemporary flow. His aim is to create the kind of environment where everyone in the space can discover fulfillment in the process of learning through movement and music. Nefer Fernandez
Nefer Fernandez is a co-founder and principal of Not Applicable Office. He is an architectural thinker, artist, and filmmaker. Originally born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, he moved to California in the early aughts, where he received his undergraduate education at the University of Southern California. Nefer’s interest in design thinking and art led him to obtain a Master from Columbia University (GSAPP) in New York City.
Early in his career, Nefer worked in single family housing with Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, CA), Formation Association (Los Angeles, CA), Ezequiel Farca (Mexico City, MX) and Michael Maltzan Architecture (Los Angeles, CA). After obtaining his Masters, he worked with Adamson Associates, where he gained experience in large scale buildings throughout the west coast. Consecutively, Nefer became the studio director of RFRM Collective, an architecture studio he co-founded in 2016. In late 2022, Nefer founded Not Applicable Office, a multidisciplinary studio at the intersection of Art, Architecture and Film.
Nefer’s experience and interests have provided him with a wide spectrum of knowledge that is both conceptual and practical. His collaborations have been widely published in digital and print media, including GA Houses and El Croquis. His graduate work is in Abstract 2019, a yearly publication of selected work and research from Columbia University GSAPP. In 2021 he was a guest lecturer at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. In 2022, his work titled Maintaining Dichotomies (Holding opposing thoughts) was part of a group show at the art gallery Modest Common in Downtown Los Angeles. Nefer currently resides in Los Feliz where he enjoys long bike rides and walks around Griffith Park. Justin Scheid
Justin Clark Scheid is a composer, performer, sound artist, and production technician based in Los Angeles, California.
Justin enjoys writing music for both acoustic and electronic mediums, often collaborating with other artists to create unique environmental experiences. In recent years, he has worked extensively with dancers and choreographers to create both staged and immersive works. He has had the honor to write and arrange music for Dance Aegis, Iris Company, Heidi Duckler Dance, Lawrence Blake, Julie Bour, and the Yorke Dance Project for their 20th Anniversary Tour. He is also a co-founding member of the sound and vision project Cannibalistic Caterpillar.
As a technician, Justin has worked throughout Orange County, Los Angeles and Hollywood. While his speciality is audio, he has worked in every medium of technical production in support of commercial and non-commercial events. Outside of live production, Justin also has experience as museum and art gallery preparator. Notable venues and events include REDCAT, OC Fair & Event Center, MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center, Pasadena Convention Center (Politicon 2017), KABC-TV (LA Martin Luther King Day Parade 2019 and LA Pride Parade 2019), and The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.
Justin received his Bachelor’s Degree from California State University Long Beach and his Master’s Degree from California Institute of the Arts, studying flute performance with Dr. John Barcellona and music composition with Dr. Alan Shockley, Michael Jon Fink, Ulrich Krieger, and Michael Pisaro. He taught electronic music and production technology at both Rio Hondo College and Chapman University, as well as music classes for the Sharon Lund School of Dance at CalArts where he worked for three years as a technical director for their dance theater.
Outside of work, Justin is an avid DIY enthusiast and enjoys building synthesizers and working with microcontrollers. As a hobby he collects vinyl records, bad jokes, and flannel shirts. He can also make an excellent peanut butter and banana smoothie. Annabelle Freedman
Annabelle Freedman is an interdependent artist based in LA.
“. . . there’s something affecting and even mystical going on. Marvel at it.” – Buzzbands.la
Annabelle wraps you in a blanket of warm stacked vocals and rich symphonic melodies. They were selected for NPR’s top 5 tracks to soothe quarantine blues. They have been played by international DJs, and remain favored by reputable stations such as KCRW, Dublab, and Spotify playlists.
Throughout their career, Annabelle has played the festivals SXSW, UMS, Broke LA, and Chinatown Summer Nights and venues including The El Rey, The Lodge Room, Regent Theater, The Echo, Bootleg Theater, Bottom of the Hill, Sister and more. They have performed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Denver, Barcelona, Nijmegen, and Berlin. Collaborators include CAPYAC, Def Sound, Smile High, Zhao, Teddy Roxpin, aja monet, TwoLips, jess joy, Osei Parker, && more “Mirror’s Eye / Going Within” was featured in the ABC series Grownish, and “Hear My Mind” was used for a Dolce & Gabbana social media ad. Annabelle has also scored music for the fashion short film for Garo Sparo for NYFW.

Ebb & Flow: Chinatown
2023-06-25 | Los Angeles State Historic Park, 1245 N Spring St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Our free, family friendly community arts festival returns for its fifth year at the Los Angeles State Historic Park! The festival explores climate change, nature, humanity, and health through dance, visual arts, music, and technology.
Heidi Duckler Dance has commissioned eight interdisciplinary artists to create site specific performances in response to environmental themes, constructing innovative interventions to be shown throughout the park landscape that build awareness around our interconnection with the earth and promote climate action and stewardship.
Featuring works by local artists Andersmith, HIBISCUS TV, Marie Osterman, Mawusi Nenonene, Stephaine Sherwood and Katie Shanks, and Victoria Villamil (Tori Cristi), HDD Artist in Residence Raymond Ejiofor, and Heidi Duckler.
Donations made at checkout will support the artists, production team and equipment, and staff. Individual donations help make this festival possible and are greatly appreciated!
Meet the Artists
Andersmith
Andersmith is a multidisciplinary collaboration that brings together theater, movement, and music to create work that deals with the quotidian and the extraordinary, the body and effort, and the blurred lines between what is real and the absurd. Led by Arletta Anderson and Adam Smith, their work has been presented nationally. They have been artists-in-residence at CounterPulse in San Francisco and Bowling Green University and received commissions from the University of San Francisco, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, ZERO1, and Dancers’ Group. Tori Cristi
Victoria Villamil, “Tori Cristi” is a queer Salvadoran Filipina artist, educator and organizer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Cal State Dominguez Hills. Utilizing her experience as a multi-hyphenated identity, Tori’s work focuses on the intersections between culture, gender, and psychology. In addition to specializing in Punking & Whacking, she has trained in multiple disciplines such as jazz, contemporary along with street and club forms of dance. She has trained alongside notable groups such as Versastyle Next Generation, Gunita Collective, and Femme Fatale. Tori has showcased work at venues such as “Beyond the Facade” at San Francisco’s Art Foundation, as well as “Choreographer’s Carnival” and “Blaktinx Dance Festival” in Los Angeles. She has also worked with organizations such as RedBull Dance, Pieter Performance Space, AHRI For Justice, HYBE America and more. She is the founder of the organization Whacking Los Angeles which is dedicated to preserving the history and practice of Punking & Whacking as well as provide safe space for LGBTQ+ community. Tori aims to create purpose driven art, elevate multicultural stories, and empower individuals to nurture their authenticity. Hibiscus TV
Hibiscus TV is the convergence of two artistic minds: Amy Kaps and Kaye Freeman. The Genesis of their collaboration was “The Anatomy of a Painting” for the LA Painting exhibition at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA. Free from convention, Hibiscus TV is a platform for unbridled creativity. Grounded in the absurd and authentic expression, they explore infinite possibilities. Using iPhones, they have produced several films embodying the Elements including Air, Wood, Planting, Teatime, Chinatown, and Gift, as well as Ponderings on various subjects viewable on their YouTube channel and Instagram. Amy Kaps is an international interdisciplinary artist recognizable by her signature palette of Black and White Stripes with Pink accents. She has performed and exhibited in Germany, Spain, Cuba, and the US. Born in Brooklyn, NY she currently resides in Venice, CA and occupies a studio in DTLA. Kaye Freeman is a visual artist from Hong Kong via Tokyo and Australia. She is now a permanent resident of the US. She is the recipient of several awards, and her work is held in collections in the US, Australia, Japan and the UK. MawusiSarah
MawusiSarah is a dance artist based in Los Angeles. Her work is driven by the timeless relationship between movement, human nature, and the living earth.
She recently completed her MFA in Choreography at the University of Ghana, after receiving her BA in Dance Medicine & Management from Baldwin Wallace University. Throughout her career, she has performed with Cleveland Inner City Ballet, North Pointe Ballet, and Zbu Entertainment. She has also presented her work at the Cleveland Dance Festival, American Dance Festival’s Student Showcase, Ballet Inc. The Series: IV Showcase, and The Ghana Dance Festival. She is extremely thankful for this opportunity and excited to participate in this collaborative experience. Marie Osterman
Marie Osterman (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist working in performance, movement, improvisation, writing, and directing theatre. Their work centers around queer embodiment, environmental connections, and politics of the body. Marie’s generative art combines her classically-trained background in theatremaking and her contact improvisation practice with the mission of facilitating intimate, authentic and playful creative spaces that hold what needs to be held, and ignite conversation and community. They are a longtime collaborator and associate managing director of Project Nongenue, a queer theatre company focused on centralizing the voices of women and marginalized identities within classical theater and mythology. Marie is also a teaching artist for 24th Street Theatre and Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, as well as a facilitator and general rascal in the Contact Improvisation scene. Other passions include finding things on the ground, pleasure activism, and looking at the moon. Stephanie Sherwood and Katie Shanks
Stephanie Sherwood and Katie Shanks are visual artists based in Los Angeles with a collaborative art practice which began in 2015. Trained in traditional painting, their joint practice has traveled off the canvas into sculpture, immersive installation, and fashion. As their individual practices have developed into various series of works they have both become very sensitive and responsive to places – both cityscapes and natural landscapes. Sherwood with her distinctive way of painting onto three dimensional forms and found objects on city streets and Shanks with their fiber-based methods of processing and weaving, physically and digitally, visions of natural environments. Rachael Lovinger
As a multi-disciplinary artist making her living designing synthetic worlds through film and TV sets lasting days (or even hours), Rachael Lovinger explores this relationship between creation and waste. She uses interactive experiences to challenge viewers to become more mindful of their part in creating a more symbiotic relationship between civilization and the natural world. Her background studying Art and Psychology at CU Boulder gives her a unique outlook on ecopsychology and the impact art has on changing human perspective. Raymond Ejiofor, Artist in Residence
Raymond Ejiofor holds a Masters of Public Health Policy from University of Southern California and is a recipient of the prestigious Gates Millennium Fellowship. Raymond graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Decision Science and double minor in Engineering Studies and Technology and Policy. Raymond began his training under Judith Rhodes Calgaro in Arlington, VA and the Dance Theater of Harlem. While balancing academics and artistry Raymond has worked with various choreographers including Daniel Ezralow, Aszure Barton, Ryan Heffington, Lula Washington, Sidra Bell, Camille A. Brown, Kyle Abraham, Darrell Grand Moultrie, Cindy Salgado, Cindera Che, Nina McNeely, Bryan Arias, Danielle Agami, Christopher Huggins, and Robert Battle. Some of his performance credits include Audi | Shanghai, Toshiba International Industrial, Samsung, Apple, 59th Annual Grammy Awards, American Music Awards 2018, MTV VMAs 2017, Beijing Dance Festival, Israeli Opera House, Springboard Danse Montreal, LA Phil, SummerStage NYC, Jazz Dance World Congress and Pittsburgh Opera.
Ejiofor has danced for artists such as Katy Perry, Sia, Pharrell Williams, Dua Lipa, Little Boots, 30 Seconds to Mars, Gerard Way, The Acid, Moullinex, Fitz and the Tantrums and Daft Punk. Ejiofor joined the company of dance theater production PEARL, which premiered at Lincoln Center | David H. Koch Theater and continues to tour around the world. Under the direction of Greer Reed, Ejiofor was a founding member of August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (AWCDE), which was named “25 to Watch” in 2012 by Dance Magazine. Ejiofor currently collaborates with various companies such as Ezralow Dance, Ate9 Dance Company, David Roussève / REALITY, Heidi Duckler Dance, Lula Washington Dance Theater, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, Kevin Williamson Dance, Pony Box Dance Theater, Post Ballet, and Brice Mousset’s Oui Danse. Heidi Duckler, Founder and Artistic Director
Heidi Duckler is the Founder and Artistic Director of Heidi Duckler Dance in Los Angeles, California and Heidi Duckler Dance/Northwest in Portland, Oregon. Titled the “reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the LA Times, Duckler is a pioneer of site-specific place based contemporary practice. Through the use of expanded techniques and a methodology that encourages us to understand how dance, born from our experience, can be a tool for awareness. Duckler was the recipient of the 2021 Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship and most recently, her film “Where We’re Going” has been selected for first prize by the Cinedanza Festival jury amongst 28 films from around the world. “Where We’re Going” was also selected for the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) Digital Media Wall in their new building in downtown Sacramento, scheduled to premiere in 2022. Currently, Duckler is on faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Film and Media Studies Department.
Duckler earned a BS in Dance from the University of Oregon and an MA in Choreography from UCLA, and served as a Board Member of the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance Advancement Council. Awards include the Distinguished Dance Alumna award from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, the Dance/USA and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Engaging Dance Audiences award, and the National Endowment of the Arts American Masterpiece award. Duckler was a recipient of the 2019 Oregon Dance Film Commission and her work received the award for Best Choreography for the Lens at Verve Dance Film Festival.
This project is made possible through support from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and California State Parks. Heidi Duckler Dance expresses a special thanks to Stephanie Campbell, Manager of Planning, Public Affairs and Community Engagement for the Los Angeles District.

Time for a Slow Dance
2023-05-20 16:30 - 17:30 | Jacqueline Avant Children and Family Center, 1741 E. 120th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90059, United States
A Place Called Home (APCH) students with Heidi Duckler Dance teaching artists, dancers and musicians Dwight Trible and Pablo Calogero will perform a suspended dance through the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital campus, ending their journey at the recently inaugurated Jacqueline Avant Children and Family Center. There, dancers Joseph Davis, Raymond Ejiofor, Jessica Emmanuel, Sasha Rivero, and Ashley Robicheaux are accompanied by Dwight Trible’s four-piece band for an unforgettable performance.
After the performance, participants are invited to participate in a panel discussion moderated by Alex Martin Johnson and enjoy refreshments. APCH students’ workshops, culminating walk, and performance collectively interrogate our bodies’ response to one another and encourage us to connect to the environment around us. Experiences of collaboration, problem solving, leadership, confidence, and empathy will be shared in open discussion.

Truth or Consequences: Never Ending Story
2023-05-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
The salon will feature original works from Heidi Duckler, HDD Artist in Residence Raymond Ejiofor, DaEun Jung, and Ok Nico. Audience members will move through different parts of the Bendix Building to experience an interconnected web of narratives across different artistic mediums, flowing together to create one “never ending story.”
Your ticket includes:

Pre-show cocktail hour with beverages
Delicious local catering
Viewing of premiere performance Never Ending Story
Aftershow soirée
Opportunity to spend the evening with like-minded creatives

The Ebell of LA Luncheon Performance
2023-05-01 11:30 - 13:30 | The Ebell of LA, 4401 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90005, United States
Join us at The Ebell of LA for this extra special luncheon where Founder and Artistic Director Heidi Duckler will present an original interdisciplinary showcase encompassing a live performance, a premiere screening of our 2022 reel and a talkback discussion. We will learn about Duckler’s creative process and the execution of the company’s values of community, inclusivity and spatial justice.

Performance @ CultureHub LA's Re-Fest
2023-04-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Hot Shot Muffler, 5507 York Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90042, United States
We’re excited to be a part of CultureHub’s Re–Fest, an annual festival that brings artists, activists, and technologists together to explore our role in re-shaping the future.
The theme for Re–Fest 2023 is Re-New, which critically examines our culture’s obsession with newness, reframing our relationship to creation and progress. How can we prioritize ancestral knowledge and forgotten technologies in order to renew our relationship with creation and innovation?
The opening of Re–Fest at Hot Shot Muffler will feature a group exhibition, live performances, and conversations.
SCHEDULE:
6:00pm PT: Screening | Archetype of Desire by Andrea Kim
7:00pm PT: Performance | High Desert Soundings
7:30pm PT: Performance | Heidi Duckler Dance and Jeonghyeon Joo Photo courtesy of Hot Shot Muffler

Illuminate LA's Collective Memory Installation
2023-02-25 21:00 - 2023-03-03 17:00 | Grand Park, 200 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Our film in collaboration with Safety Third Productions Where We’re Going will be part of the Collective Memory Installation! The event is a digital exhibition of artworks reflecting on the collective history of Los Angeles County, presented by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture in partnership with Grand Park powered by The Music Center.
The installation features artworks by one hundred Los Angeles artists across a wide array of artistic mediums to share diverse community experiences and perspectives, highlight underrepresented histories, and celebrate the dynamic culture of our region.
The Collective Memory Installation will be on view at Grand Park, overlooking the Arthur J. Will Memorial Fountain. The artworks are presented by theme weekly, curated by cultural organizer Anuradha Vikram.
Where We’re Going will be on display from Saturday, February 25 at 9 pm to Friday, March 3 at 5 pm as part of the Our Cities theme.

Truth or Consequences: Come As You Are
2023-01-29 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
January 29 – Come As You Are
Bendix Building – Meet us at our rooftop space and travel with us to a never before seen location in the building
As part of our first salon of the year, we welcome a wonderful union of work between our long-time collaborating creative technologist & projection artist Kamyi Lee, stellar pianist and composer Tomoko Ozawa, HDD dancers Edgar Aguirre & Rebecca Lee, DJ William Jay YIvisaker and our new Seoul Institute of the Arts Interns Seoyoon Choi & Yejin An.
Join us on our rooftop transformed into a magical seaside escape and then travel down into the belly of the Bendix to explore the underworld for an unforgettable evening of music, dance and conversation. Unburden your true self in an immersive environment of sight and sound. Come As You Are welcomes you for who you are, without reservation.
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Book Launch: Heidi Duckler Dance: 2016-2021 @ ICA LA
2023-01-14 15:00 - 17:00 | ICA LA, 1717 E 7th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90021, United States
We’re excited to partner with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles on a launch event for our visual compilation book of the company’s works designed by James Robie. Heidi and James will discuss the creation of the book and sign books. Vinny Golia and Edgar Aguirre will perform a new work by Heidi Duckler created specifically for this event in the innovative architecture of the ICA LA lobby walls designed by wHY Architecture.
Purchase your copy of the book and bring it to the event here!
RSVP for the event here!
Vinny Golia, Musician/Composer
As a composer Vinny Golia fuses the rich heritage of Jazz, contemporary classical and world music into his own unique compositions. Also a bandleader, Golia has presented his music to concert audiences in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States in ensembles varying dramatically in size and instrumentation. Edgar Aguirre, Dancer
Aguirre is originally from Guatemala City, Guatemala. Aguirre is currently based in California where he has been working as a freelance dance artist and choreographer in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He is a guest artist with LA Contemporary Dance Company, Robert Moses’ Kin, Heidi Duckler Dance, Contra-Tiempo & David Herrera Performance Company.

Truth or Consequences: A curated series of transdisciplinary salons
2022-12-04 18:00 - 20:00 | Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave. Ste. 1100B, Los Angeles, CA, 90015, United States
December 4 – Play by Ear
Weaving together performances, exchanging ideas, sharing food and experiencing the warmth of gathering, Play by Ear is a participatory evening that unfolds stories and songs about how we might envision a future together.Our last salon of the year features:
Tlayuda! Serving tlayudas for dinner with jamaica and margaritas. The classic supreme tlayuda includes tasajo, cecina, chorizo and Oaxaca cheese, along with lettuce, tomato, onion and sliced avocado
Five Skins, Jessica Emmanuel Kamyi Lee, and Weaver: A collaboration between classical music, one of our spectacular dancers and choreographers, a long time collaborating video engineer, designer and immersive genius, and an upscale sewing innovator in the hand craft arts.
Special guests El Haru Kuroi, an East LA trio, whose music not only is a representation of their cultural upbringing but also captures their individual style with a reminiscence of Mexican, South American, African, and American Jazz elements, will open the salon!
AND, frequent collaborator Snezana Petrovic will transform the interior of the Bendix Building with an art installation!
Engage in conversations with local artists about their process as they bring meaningful and thought-provoking work to light!
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This program is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture.

Inglewood Art Walk with St. Mary's Academy
2022-11-12 12:00 - 17:00 | Saint Mary’s Academy, 701 Grace Ave, Inglewood, CA, 90301, United States
12 pm – Student Performance
12 – 4 pm – Workshops with Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles
Witness the students’ creativity and hard work as they perform an original piece on our yellow mustang ‘dancemobile.’ PLUS, see teaching artist and Board Member Raymond Ejiofor in action as he teaches workshops for the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles who will be in attendance at the event!

The Body of the People ~ Heidi Duckler Dance's 37th Annual Gala Celebration
2022-10-22 17:00 - 21:00 | Founder’s Church of Religious Science, 3281 West 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90020, United States
Heidi Duckler Dance’s 37th Annual Gala Celebration

Honorees:

David Roussève – Artistic Vision Award
Distinguished Professor of Choreography at UCLA in the department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance

Nancy Griffin – Board Impact Award
Journalist, Author, Community Volunteer

Jewel Delegall – Civic Engagement Award
Chief Program Officer at A Place Called Home

Sponsorship Levels:
Individual Entry: $250

Valet Parking

Cocktail reception @ 5pm

Heidi Duckler Dance performance @ 6pm

Screening, awards ceremony, dinner & dancing @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Artist Sponsor : $1,000

Valet Parking

Cocktail reception @ 5pm

Heidi Duckler Dance performance @ 6pm

Screening, awards ceremony, dinner & dancing @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Table and tickets for 4

Become a member of Heidi Duckler Dance

Acknowledgement listed on program materials

Event Sponsor: $2,500

Valet Parking

Cocktail reception @ 5pm

Heidi Duckler Dance performance @ 6pm

Screening, awards ceremony, dinner & dancing @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Table and tickets for 10

Become a member of our Leadership Circle

Company logo and acknowledgement listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts

Season Sponsor: $5,000

Valet Parking

Cocktail reception @ 5pm

Heidi Duckler Dance performance @ 6pm

Screening, awards ceremony, dinner & dancing @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Two tables and tickets for 20

Become a member of our Leadership Circle

Wine Bottle Service

Company logo and acknowledgement listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts

Organizational Sponsor: $10,000

Valet Parking

Cocktail reception @ 5pm including photography with Artistic Director and Board of Directors

Heidi Duckler Dance performance @ 6pm

VIP seating for screening, awards ceremony, dinner & dancing @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Two tables and tickets for 20

Become a member of our Leadership Circle

Wine Bottle Service

Company logo and acknowledgement listed on all media materials, newsletters and e-blasts

Private rooftop cocktail reception at The Bendix in 2023. Managing Director Raphaelle Ziemba will call to arrange the details.

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Special thanks to our sponsors!
Event Sponsors:
Heidi Duckler and Daniel Rosenfeld
John Friedman and Alice Kimm
Nancy Griffin and Steven Ehrlich
Honorable Mark Ridley-Thomas
Artist Sponsors:
Ken and Kathy Bernstein
Sarah Pillsbury
Lisa and Neil Quateman

Ebb & Flow: Culver City
2022-09-10 - 2022-09-11 | Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, 6300 Hetzler Rd, Culver City, CA, 90232, United States
Heidi Duckler Dance brings its beloved Ebb & Flow festival back to the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook in Culver City ! Join us for a beautiful walk around the scenic park. The festival will feature a variety of interdisciplinary art pieces stationed throughout the park. Each unique piece is an exploration of climate change, nature, humanity, and health. Audience members will have the opportunity to stroll through the park and engage with each work.
Heidi Duckler Dance is thrilled to be joined by artists Peter J. Harris, Victoria Goring (The Cardboard Countess), Five Skins with Jobel Medina, Shenandoah Harris (Psychopomp Dance), Dan Greene, Caitlin Javech, John Eagle and Emily Call, Marianna Varviani, Maëlys Renaud, Indigo Smith, Ashton S. Phillips, and Andrea Burr and Luke Dakota Zender.
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