“Choreographer Heidi Duckler long ago cemented her bona fides as L.A.’s mistress of site-specific dance theater, using movement to guide audiences to a deeper understanding of this city’s geographic infrastructure, from Laundromats and the underground Red Car lines to historic jails and the cement walls of the L.A. River.” – Ann Haskins, LA Weekly, Best Site-Specific Dance Company
“Many choreographers intermittently offer site specific work in L.A., but when it comes to Heidi Duckler Dance, nobody does it better. ” – Ann Haskins, LA Weekly,
“While her venue-specific skills have gained her an international reputation, Duckler’s deepest art may be her ability to draw audiences into L.A.’s cultural archeology, revealing often overlooked history in sites scattered throughout LA’s many communities and then linking the past with often cautionary, sometimes anthem-worthy insights that resonate.” – Ann Haskins, LA Dance Chonicle
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earlier press
- Snow Dance in Culver City
NBCLA, December 8, 2016 - Dance, Identity and Deforestation: Heidi Duckler Imagines When I Am King
@This Stage, October 25, 2016 - An Abandoned Cinema is the setting for Heidi Duckler’s WHEN I AM KING
Seedance, October 24, 2016 - The “Don’t Miss” List
LA Downtown News, October 10, 2016 - Los Angeles August 11–17: Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre & Gold Medal Nights at Public School
Afar, August 10, 2016 - “F*ck Trump’s Wall”: These Artists Turned Immigration Stories into Art
The Creators Project, August 6, 2016 - Charles Lummis, Los Angeles city founder, sprung to life in dance & documentary
Arts Meme, June 1, 2016 - LA Times: Weekend Events Not to be Missed
Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2016 - Movement is a Universal Language: Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre in Cuba
KCET Artbound, June 1, 2016 - Car Wash Dance Peformance
NBC4 LA, May 7, 2016 - Dancing at the Car Wash
WEHOville, May 6, 2016 - In WeHo, High Art at the Car Wash
LA Mag, May 6, 2016 - A Sense of the Space: Where Dance/Theatre Leads Us
American Theatre, February 23, 2016 - So Much Art, So Little Time…Hello, 2016!
The Looseleaf Report, January 4, 2016 - Sophie & Charlie: A Kinetic Telenovela by Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre
KCET/Artbound, October 1, 2015 - Dancing to the Drama
The Argonaut, September 30, 2015 - A Live Dance Telenovela, in Four Parts
NBC4 LA, September 24, 2015 - Contemporary dance meets telenovela in ‘Sophie & Charlie’
KPCC’s The Frame, September 23, 2015 - Episode 19: Heidi Duckler
No Proscenium podcast, September 11, 2015 - Duckler’s Brush Up as a Performance Act
Cultural Weekly, June 24, 2015 - The Incomparable Heidi Duckler
Medium.com, June 9, 2015 - A Matter of Place: Dancing Through Chinatown’s Changes
Avoiding Regret, May 28, 2015 - Something Borrowed, Something Blue Heidi Duckler’s “Chinatown Blues”
Medium.com, May 27, 2015 - Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has the ‘Chinatown Blues’
Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2015 - Space Opera
Fjord Review, March 17, 2015 - Architecture and Dancers Lighten Up in Heidi Duckler’s “Space Opera”
KCRW Design & Architecture Review, March 17, 2015 - Duckler & Mayne Join Dance and Architecture for Space Opera @ Morphosis
Culver City Crossroads, March 11, 2015 - DETOUR: A Drive Home Digression with Heidi Duckler’s “Parts and Labor, Redux”
Ampersand, January 27, 2015 - Parts and Labor’ Returns: Heidi Duckler’s Cadillac Dance
KCET/Artbound, January 22, 2015
press releases
Heidi Duckler Dance Presents The Best of The Quest digital book
December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020
Heidi Duckler Dance presents THE RE-QUEST
November 25,2020
Heidi Duckler Dance Presents THE QUEST
September 22, 2020
Heidi Duckler Dance Presents Unsettling Ramona Salon Series
August 6, 2020
Heidi Duckler Dance Presents Move Me Workshops + Performance
July 16, 2020
Dr. Kerry English, Martin Luther King, Jr. Outpatient Center Creative Fellowship
July 14, 2020
Heidi Duckler Dance Presents Ebb & Flow: Chinatown Festival
June 19, 2020
