January Performances

Dear Friends,

January has been very intense. My daughter-in-law is seriously ill with ulcerative colitis so I have been up there helping my son with the children. While the circumstance is horrible, I have enjoyed being with the girls very much.
I already had three performances scheduled for this month so life is complicated. One is tonight so that is very short notice and another is Monday, which isn't much better. Anyway, here they are:


Friday, January 9, 2009, Los Angeles Dance Improvisation Festival

Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Avenue
Venice, CA, 90291
8:30 PM
Friday night is a pay what-you-can night.

I will be in two student pieces, one organized by Caroline Waters, and the other by Kirsti Simpson. They will be very different and the quality of the performers is high. There will also be duets between Caroline and Jones Walsh and also Kirsti and Simone Forti.

Monday, January 12, 2009, Anatomy Riot

Open Space
209 S. Garey Street, 90012, 2nd floor
Los Angeles, CA
8:00 PM. The cost is $10.00.

I will be performing an improvisation with Caroline Waters. We have collaborated for several years in venues ranging from Laguna Beach to Budapest and Posnan, Poland. The piece is called "Et. cetera, et. cetera." Anatomy Riot is curated this month by Arianne MacBean and will present several works in progress.

Then. Friday and Saturday, January 30 and 31, 2009

Highways Performance Space
1651 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404
8:30 PM, $20, $15 for seniors, students.

This is another group, works-in-progress show, but the work is more developed than that at Anatomy Riot. I will be doing a solo set to music by Shostokovich and with text from Pilgrim's Progress.

I hope your New Year is going well.

Luke