Julie Dossavi at RedCat April 10-13
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The Cultural Services of the French Consulate in Los
Angeles
present:
Compagnie Julie Dossavi:
P.I.
(Pays) or Présentations intimes
Los Angeles premiere
April
10-13, 2008
At
REDCAT
The Roy and Edna
Disney / Calarts Theater
631 West 2nd Street
Los
Angeles, CA 90012
"Julie
Dossavi is a priestess performing solitary rites, a mischievous child at play,
an immigrant wandering through subway corridors, a warrior, a
night-clubber…"
Libération
Infusing
contemporary African dance forms with jolts of high fashion and street culture,
the mesmerizing Julie Dossavi presents a collection of solos and duets
accompanied by live African percussion, voice and electronics. The French-born
dancer and choreographer draws on sources from electronic dance music and club
culture to gymnastics and tribal ritual to shape distinctive works that are
modern, ethnic, expressive and abstract-and always alive with a distillation of
human experience. Dossavi has collaborated with influential choreographers
Philippe Decouflé and Joseph Nadj while also crossing over into the worlds of
video and fashion through projects with Jean-Paul Gaultier, Nina Ricci and
Angelique Kidjo.
This
project is made possible by Cultures France, a division of the French Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the
United
States
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