LA Improv Dance Festival 2010

The 6th Annual Los Angeles Improv Dance Festival.

Featuring an all-male cast this year, with special guest artists Scott Wells & Dancers, Charlie Morrissey, Rudy Perez, The Platt Brothers, Stefan Fabry, Jones Welsh, Will Salmon and more. A week of movement workshops, performances, and jams in sunny Venice, California. The festival is an exploration and celebration of improvisational movement styles and alternative dance techniques; featuring Contact Improvisation, performance structure, ensemble movement, and integrating sound, voice, and sets into performance.

Green Theatre Space: ELECTRIC LODGE in Venice, is a historic building and former Masonic Lodge, outfitted as a solar-powered facility that actually generates more power than it consumes.

Performance Collaboration Workshops: iDfest students have an opportunity to workshop to performance with renown improvisational artists. Instructors will set movement scores and performance work with students while also practicing and developing dance and Contact Improvisation skills. Also a new collaboration open for Musicians this year!

(h)improv Collaboration Performances: A celebration of male energy in dance - A full weekend of improvisational dance performance mixed with collaboratively generated work, matching up iDfest renown special guest artists with local talent to collaborate on new improvisation structures, crossing disciplines, and creating new territory. This year, the focus is celebrating masculine energy in movement with a (mostly) all male cast. Stay tuned for the lineup, different each show, come to all!