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Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has been creating site-specific productions throughout Southern California and beyond since 1985. Originally incorporated as Collage Dance Theatre (CDT) in 1988, the company has created and presented over 100 dance performances in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Montreal, Hong Kong, and Russia. In 2010, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre celebrated its 25th anniversary; Duckler was recognized with two significant honors: an (American Masterpieces Award ) from the National Endowment for the Arts to tour Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre’s signature work ''Laundromatinee''; and a commission to be a part of the Night International Festival of Music & Dance on the Volga in Russia. Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre works exclusively outside of the traditional proscenium stage setting, which inherently invites the community to become the epicenter of the work. == Mission and artistic direction== The company's founder and artistic director is choreographer Heidi Duckler. Duckler has a B.S. in Dance from the University of Oregon (from which she received the Distinguished Alumnae Award in June 2012)〔 and an M.A. in Choreography from UCLA. Her work has been commissioned by companies including Miami Light, Grand Performances, REDCAT, Aben Dans in Denmark, Brookfield Properties, and the Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation.〔 She has participated in the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Arts Leadership Initiative and served on the City of Los Angeles Mayor's Cultural Master Plan Advisory Committee.〔 Heidi Duckler was named "the reigning queen of site-specific performance" by the ''Los Angeles Times''.〔 Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre takes as its mission to create performance events in nontraditional spaces, commercial buildings, and diverse neighborhoods in order to redefine the relationship between audience and art.〔 Individual pieces have been performed in laundromats (''Laundromatinee'', 1980s-2010), a church (''Church of Food'', 1990), a reflecting pool (''Foundations'', 1990), commercial buildings (''Cover Story'', 2002), a government building (''Governing Bodies'', 2010), a baseball diamond (''Stealing Home'', 1993), an empty swimming pool (''Life in the Lap Lane'', 1994), and the concreted-over Los Angeles River (''Mother Ditch'', 1995). Heidi Duckler's choreography focuses on expressing the psychological relationship between people and their environment through organic movement phrases. In both large-scale works such as ''Sleeping with the Ambassador'' (Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 2003) and more intimate works like ''Laundromatinee'' (various laundromats), Duckler creates choreography that both responds to a space and undermines assumptions regarding its original function. In some pieces, the audiences moves around rather than occupying fixed seating. Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has codified the company’s community engagement into five sectors: *(Curbside Conversations ): Cross-cultural and community dialogues, Q&As, & workshops *(Public Practice ): Open company rehearsal in public sites *(Repertory Residences ): Multi-day workshops crafted for high school/university dancers *(Speaker Series ): Lectures at local schools, colleges, and organizations by Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre Administration and artists *(The Duck Truck Residency Program ): Curriculum-based residencies constructed for the non-dancer that take place in schools and community centers Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has a sister company based in Portland, Oregon: the Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre/Northwest. This company pursues a similar mission and initiates collaborations with artists and communities of the Pacific Northwest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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