2 performances only in a JOYOUS and MOVING presentation at the Taxco Theatre.

(Because a featured work is “A Jewish Child’s Story will add more about that piece) Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers 2 performances only in a JOYOUS and MOVING presentation at the Taxco Theatre. When: Saturday April 26, 2025 at 2:00 and at 4:00 pm Where: Taxco Theatre, 7242 Owensmouth Ave, Canoga Park, CA 91303 Information: 213-458-3066 or, mailto:louisehr@lachoreographersanddancers.org Tickets: $30 general, $20 seniors/students: https://joyousandmoving.brownpapertickets.comhttps://joyousandmoving.brownpapertickets.com Choreography & Creative Direction: Louise Reichlin Dancers: Alana Astor, Carmen Tienda, Camille Imperial, Sophie Kim, Alice Lousen, Ashley Magana, Emily Mcguire, Coree McKee Gonzalez, Mcknnly Moren, Louise Reichlin, Brooke Sinton, Jamil Morgan Selections from The Tennis Dances A Jewish Child’s Story HEART image HEART Part I On April 26, 2025, Louise Reichlin & Dancers/ Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers presents the World Premier of “HEART”, also “A Jewish Child’s Story ” and Selections from The Tennis Dances. ShowTime’s are at 2:00 and 4:00 pm. The performance also includes an audience and artist discussion of the works. LA C&D presents soulful, imaginative dance works that take audience members on their own journey of self-discovery. About- The Dances: HEART A Jewish Child’s Story, (2018) Selections from The Tennis Dances, (1979), the very first work of the company. You may be more familiar with our company with “The Tennis Dances” reviewed as one of the best works ever created in Los Angeles, “The Patchwork Girl of Oz”, a joyous work for families based on the wonderful book by L. Frank Baum, creator of “The Wizard of Oz”, or “Tap-Dance Widows Club”, reviewed as “a transformational work, both hilarious and moving”. Now comes another intriguing story that EMPOWERS and ENTERTAINS. “A Jewish Child’s Story”, is an autobiographical dance multimedia work of early dreams from a granddaughter of Jewish immigrants, and research on the Holocaust connected to relatives never known. A Jewish Child’s Story was originally made possible in part by a WORD Artist Grant, the Bruce Geller Memorial Prize award to Louise Reichlin in March 2016. Part I was first performed in an outside festival (the San Pedro Arts Festival) and we were able to develop the work with several residencies in theaters donated by the city of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept and the NEA here in LA, and we now have some video and photos from there. Besides the actual performance, we are available for master classes for any level- elementary school through college and to non-dancers, and to discussions on the material. We performed both Part I at schools, and Part II at the Orange County Dance Festival last season. The complete work was presented at the Clark Center Main Theater in Las Vegas in January 2018 with some of our other works. It was awarded a grant by the city of Culver City for February performance, and was selected and performed for the HHII Festival in Santa Barbara in March 2018. Notes on the Part I: The Roses on my Wallpaper- A Dream – music by Luvi Torres and by Michelle Green Willner. Narration is by Louise Reichlin. To music with both Spanish and Hebrew words, this autobiographical work explores why I am comfortable using pieces in languages I may not understand, and the characters represent children’s heroines and heroes from my own Jewish culture and others from K’ton ton, to Wonder Woman, to Rachel or Rebekah at the Well and Miriam with her cradle holding Moses. The Magician is about an always-returning mysterious Magician that traveled the world doing cifti telli dances during the Turkish Empire to traditional music. When I was a child, I would wake up after an adventure and see the pink roses on my bedside table lamp, and the pink roses on the wallpaper, and wonder if this was really awake, or was this asleep, marking the day-time and waiting to go back to a much more exciting world. It also explores the idea that my grandparents were immigrants. Notes on Part II: Yellow Star. Yellow Star, was originally part of Reichlin’s early multi-media work The E-Mail Dances, first shown in 1997. Michael Masucci was media collaborator. A review described: “Yellow Star” grew out of Ms Reichlin’s search, by geographical internet databases, for her Jewish roots. Her grand-parents, who came to the United States from Europe, never talked about the rest of their family who stayed behind. “Symbol of the Polish ghetto, the Yellow Star reflects Ms Reichlin’s search by Internet genealogical databases for her Jewish roots. Seven dancers holding long wide strips of yellow-gold fabric, interpret stylized moves a la Fiddler on the Roof. Weaving and intertwining, they end the piece by sequentially placing the strips on the floor to form the six-sided star. At the same time, an overhead shot of the same dance is being projected on the rear screen. The combination of elements vividly evoked memories of the once vibrant culture and it’s devastating demise. (Dance! 90210). Yellow Star was reworked and shown again in 2003- At a certain point, the image of the star begins to deconstruct (a previous shoot running backwards and worked on with a computer). In the original version, the piece ends with an empty stage, symbolizing the destruction of so much of the Jewish culture in Eastern Europe during the 2nd world war. In that new version, the dancers reappear and begin dancing again as Reichlin looks around the stage, a more hopeful viewpoint with the memory kept alive. A review of that version: “Memory also enriched Louise Reichlin’s and Michael Masucci’s …intense Yellow Star, which asked projected imagery to provide a conceptual overview – literally the larger picture of what the live dancers evoked: the horrifying history of Polish Jews in the 20th century.” (The Los Angeles Times) This part was revised as part of a Bruce Geller Memorial Prize in 2016. A video of the present work is at https://vimeo.com/285921533 A short 2 1/2 minute demo is at https://vimeo.com/285900988