It's hard to write a brief blurb about yourself when it starts like this: I graduated with a degree in Performing Arts and Social Justice, with an emphasis in Dance. I ended up in Los Angeles where I'm attempting to start a business and make my way as an artist. One day, I woke up and went hey, I think I'm actually a starving artist. I primarily perform as a professional belly dancer, but also still have the occasional modern dance gig.
These are the things that Inspire me and the things (I like to think) I've learned, especially about being a dancer in LA. I also like to pass on information about classes, auditions and more in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
For you local grant seekers out there…
The HARC Foundation, a 21 year-old Los Angeles based 501(c)(3) creative arts organization, is currently seeking Contemporary Dance entries from Emerging Choreographers in Los Angeles County, California. The Choreographer of the winning entry will receive a 2011 HARC Award of $2,500.00, promotional benefits and a public presentation of the winning work during the first quarter of 2012 in Association with Highways Performance Space of Santa Monica, CA and presented at Highways Performance Space, an intimate black box space.
The HARC Foundation’s Pilot Program is a new Division of HARC’s Annual National Creative Arts Competitions and is specifically designed to engage more creative artists in local or regional areas of the U.S.
Please review the HARC Awards Entry Requirements & Specifications and The HARC Awards Official Rules before entering your work in the 2011 HARC Awards Choreography competition. All entries must comply with the Rules, fulfill the stipulated Entry Requirements and Specifications and Applications must be made on the HARC Awards Official Application Entry Form.
To be eligible for award consideration, all entries must be postmarked by June 30, 2011 and must be received no later than July 10, 2011. Judging will take place in August 2011 and announcement of the HARC Award Recipient and winning work will be made in early September 2011.
For complete Call for Entry details including The HARC Awards Entry Requirements & Specifications, the HARC Awards Official Rules and The HARC Awards Official Application (Downloadable PDF), please review information available on the following link: http://www.harcfoundation.org/call_for_entries_choreography.html
For questions about The HARC Awards Call for Entries, please send email to: applications@harcfoundation.org.
For further information about The HARC Foundation, please review HARC’s website, http://www.harcfoundation.org, or send email with questions to: info@harcfoundation.org.
CELEBRATING AMERICAN HEROES
The San Francisco Bach Choir invites you to attend its final concert of the 2009/2010 season—Celebrating American Heroes. Inspired by the men and women who have given their lives to protect the lives of others, this program will feature vocal music from the Civil War era along with a newly commissioned work, Thanksgiving for Heroes, that is dedicated to members of the Armed Services, National Guard, Police, and Fire Departments throughout the country who died in the service of their nation and community during 2009. The new work was conceived in the aftermath of the death of Lt. Curtis Massey, a member of the Culver City Police Department, who was killed in a car accident with a wrong-way driver on the freeway going to work last year. It was this tragic incident—followed shortly thereafter by the horrible events that took the lives of four officers from the Oakland Police Department, and later in the year by the Station fire in Los Angeles County in which two firefighters lost their lives—that provided the catalyst for this memorial tribute. In presenting this concert, the San Francisco Bach Choir is offering a public expression of gratitude and support by the arts community to all people who risk their lives to protect and serve.
Thanksgiving for Heroes is a new work composed by Eric Davis for soprano, baritone, chorus, piano and dancers. Rachel Lopez has been invited to choreograph the dance component of the new work for the choir’s historic performance venue, Calvary Presbyterian Church, in San Francisco. The text for Thanksgiving for Heroes was drawn from the poetry of Edwin Markham. Best known for his influential poem, “The Man with the Hoe,” Markham worked in the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 19th and early 20th century, and was an important voice in the social reform movement advocating for child labor laws and worker’s rights. The poet’s natural gift for soaring, inspirational, humanistic verse provides the backdrop for this celebration of our local and national heroes in music and dance. While Markham’s verses were written during and just after World War I and were written to honor the heroism of soldiers in that conflict, they are used in Thanksgiving for Heroes to reflect the courage and virtue of men and women today in each branch of public service who have given their lives in the line of duty. Please join us in this community event to show our gratitude for all those who have dedicated their lives to making the world a safer place in which to live.
Celebrating American Heroes performed by the San Francisco Bach Choir will take place on Saturday, May 15 (8:00pm), and Sunday, May 16 (4:00pm), at Calvary Presbyterian Church, 2515 Fillmore Street (Fillmore and Jackson Streets), San Francisco.
