Laundromatinée

Created for Thriftiwash Laundromat, Santa Monica, California, 1988; reprised 10 years later for Launderland, Culver City, California, 1998. Collage Dance Theater’s first site-specific work, Laundromatinee takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the plight of housewife within the context of the Laundromat, a commodity disappearing from gentrified neighborhoods.

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Heidi Duckler

Heidi Duckler founded Collage Dance Theatre in 1987 in Los Angeles. She has presented over 50 performances throughout Los Angeles and across the United States. She has served as visiting lecturer and artist-in-residence at colleges and universities in Los Angeles and other states, served as consultant to Aben Dans Theater in Denmark, and presented workshops and performances in Las Vegas, at Reed College in Oregon and in Miami, Florida. Called “the reigning queen of site-specific performance,” by the L. A. Times, Ms. Duckler was awarded a 1999 Choreography Fellowship from the State of California, a 2000 commission from Dancing in the Streets, a 2002 City of Los Angeles Individual Artist’s Fellowship. She is the grateful recipient of the Irvine California DanceMaker Grant in both 2003 and 2005.

Collage Dance Theatre

Collage Dance Theatre(CDT) creates performance in the spaces where the public lives and works, incorporating text, video and original composition to produce theater based on dance. These dance events integrate community experience with professional performance in an effort to blur the boundary between performer and audience, drawing the audience into the performance space. Collage performances reflect the history, culture and function of particular sites, neighborhoods, and communities. These performance spaces range from empty swimming pools, locker rooms and libraries to multiple chambers of historic or architecturally significant buildings such as the Ambassador Hotel, the Los Angeles Subway Terminal and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Building.

www.collagedancetheatre.org

Performers

Lillian Bitkoff
Chris Stanley
Marissa LaBog
Cat Manturuk
Andrea Weber

Contributors

Funded in part by a Durfee Foundation ARC Grant
Mary Chiffo
Nick Butrum
Mahayana Landowne
Bruce Steinberg (Lighting Design)

Sitelines Curator and Producer: Nolini Barretto
Sitelines Intern: Cornelia McPherson

LMCC gratefully acknowledges the assistance and support provided by Amy Chin and Karen Low. Sitelines is made possible with lead support from Altria Group, Inc. and the New York Mercantile Exchange. Additional support provided by New York State Council on the Arts, Morgan Stanley, and Harkness Foundation for Dance. Sitelines is presented by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and in association with the River to River Festival.