Grantee Database
INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE
Grant Year
2019-20
Grant Program
Artists in Communities
Award Amount
$19,000.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE will hire its artistic director Laura Karlin to serve as artist-in-residence in partnership with the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) to develop a new project titled THE DREAM EATERS. Inspired by a Japanese mythological creature, Baku, who eats nightmares, this collaborative development process will involve community conversations, dialogues and workshops with local cultural-workers and community members.
Organization Summary
Invertigo’s core programming is focused on offering dance theatre as a catalyst for racial equity and public engagement with and between communities that are systemically marginalized and less resourced. All programs activate dance as a transformational mode of storytelling and community-building as part of a movement practice. Invertigo pursues its mission through its professional dance repertory and production company, and a series of community engagement programs, including Dancing Through Parkinson’s. In 2018, Invertigo was awarded the National Dance Project Production Award – one of the highest national honors in dance – for its new dance production, FORMULAE & FAIRY TALES, hailed as “dance theatre at its finest” by the LA Dance Chronicle and declared “a breakthrough show” by the LA Times.
Organization
Invertigo Dance Theatre
Address
11166 LUCERNE AVE
CULVER CITY
90230-4244
County
Los Angeles
Region
South – Los Angeles & Orange
Phone
(424) 229-2141
Congressional District
California Assembly district 54
State Assembly District
District 54
State Senate District
District 26
