LA: The Music Center’s Moves After Dark ™— ‘Concert Walls’

by NoPro Newswire
NoPro Newswire
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July 16, 2018
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3 min read

When: July 24, 25, 31 Aug 1; 8:30pm

Where:Walt Disney Concert Hall 111 S. Grand Avenue

Price: $30

Tags: #dance, #sitespecific

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The latest in The Music Center’s ongoing series.

Press Release Follows

The Music Center’s Moves After Dark™ (Moves After Dark) returns for a third season on July 24, 24, 31 and August 1, 2018, with the world premiere of choreography performed by Clairobscur Dance and two other Los Angeles-based dance companies, all of which are led by female artistic directors. Choreographer Laurie Sefton has created a work that asks audiences to travel to where the dancers are performing and select their own vantage point for a personal create-your-own experience. The Music Center’s Moves After Dark™ is made possible by Center Dance Arts.

Clairobscur Dance will be performing Concert Walls in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Carson Amphitheater and surrounding staircases. Concert Walls responds to Los Angeles, its visible and invisible energy, and reflects the now-ness of this vibrant city, its intrinsic inequities and inequalities. Choreographed by Clairobscur Dance’s Artistic Director Laurie Sefton with original live music composed by Bryan Curt Kostors, Concert Walls will strive to bestow each audience member with a unique perspective and view of the work. Sefton’s choreography will react to the dynamic space created by the stainless steel planes of the Walt Disney concert Hall’s soaring contours, convex and concave with movement. It becomes more than a backdrop, but a context, a barrier, a frame and a partner for the dancers, musicians and the audience.

Moves After Dark™will be held at 8:30p.m. each night as audiences gather in groups and follow three different paths around Walt Disney Concert Hall that lead to each of the three performances. The other companies include Strange & Elegant Dance with Artistic Holly Rothschild and Mixed eMotion Theatrix with Artistic Janet Rosten, who will be performing at the Walt Disney concert Hall Grand Avenue stairs and Blue Ribbon Garden respectively. Moves After Dark™ and Clairobscur Dance offer audiences an opportunity to experience dance in an up-close-and personal setting with virtually no boundaries between them and the dancers.

About Clairobscur Dance

Clairobscur Dance is the vehicle for transmitting Laurie Sefton’s choreography. Known for her dense and detailed movements, Sefton’s award winning choreography is personal emotional, and issue-based. It focuses on conveying complex ideas, investigating each issue to it’s core. Dance has the power to be an action of change as Sefton’s choreography decodes emotional content and viscerally affects those who experience it. Collaborating with Los Angeles-based artists, composers, spoken word artists, costume designers, and architects, her work convey complex ideas that impact our daily lives. Clairobscur presents dance as art, with a unique movement vocabulary and style marked by a high ratio of movement to time.

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