Roxanne Flower of the Season / Body Weather Laboratory

Dance
Jesske Hume, Heather Ehlers
Rosemary Candelario, Eric Losoya
Meyu Kobayashi, Kim Nakakura
Heyward Bracey, A.Dola Baroni
Ariadna Rodriguez Cima, Joyce Lu

Music and Sound Design
Brian Saitzyk, Robert Scott, Joe Berardi, M.Deragon,
Javier Abad, Jesske Hume and Ariadna Rodriguez Cima

Lighting and Staging
Flower of the Season

Flower arrangement by Oguri and Roxanne


Flower of the Season is the extension of the Earthbeat series Oguri and Steinberg began ten years ago to foster collaborations between visual artists, musicians, writers and dancers. Together, with the work of percussionist Adam Rudolph, sculptor Stephan Glassman, artist Hirokazu Kosaka, musicians Wadada Leo Smith, G.E. Stinson and Nels Cline, Robert Scott, Arnie Saiki, Myra Melford and Alex Cline and dancers Roxanne Steinberg, Melinda Ring, Mia Doi Todd and Jamie Burris, Sherwood Chen, Boaz Barkan, Claudia Lopez, Lillian Barbeito, Benjamin Jarrett, Eric Losoya, Jesske Hume, Magali Gajan, Heyward Bracey, Asher Woodworth and Oguri has continually explored boundaries between audience and stage, creating fresh contexts for the presentation of art and performance.

In its fourth year, the series continues to evolve as a platform for the development of new and important dance explorations by a variety of local and international artists. Yearly these dancers are chosen to train together at Body Weather Laboratory, developing individual interpretations of a common vision. Flower of the Season has indeed become a pilgrimage - drawing dancers, choreographers and musicians to a seasonal offering of blossoming creativity.

Dance and performance are temporal arts that exist in the present just as the splendor of the flower is fleeting. A flower seeks the light, growing and developing accordingly. It finds the right time and right place to blossom. It shares its beauty as a function of its being, not an arbitrary choice. These performances will be the unique expression and seasonal response of each solo dancer.


Artistic Direction: Roxanne Steinberg and Oguri
House Manager: Natsuko Satomura
Video documentation: Javier Abad and Moshe Hacmon
Box Office: J. Todd
Special Thanks: Joel Shapiro, Lizl Pace, Alberto Hernaudez Lenny and Bob Steinberg,
This performances is supported in part by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affair, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission OGP-1 program and The Electric Lodge.
Body Weather Laboratory Training Workshop at Electric Lodge:
Wednesday 10:00 am ~ 1:00 pm |Sunday 12:30 pm ~ 3:30 pm