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REMINDER: Dance Class Updated Schedule, 2012

2012-01-11T16:08:00.000-08:00

Mondays: 7:30-8:30pm Heartbeat House
Tuesdays: 6:30-7:30pm The Sweat Spot
Saturdays: 11:30-1pm The Sweat Spot

finally an hour and a half class on saturdays. more time to get into it. yes.

Heartbeat House : 3141 Glendale Blvd, Atwater Village, 90039
Sweat Spot: 3327 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, 90026

www.heartbeathouse.com
www.thesweatspotla.com

WIFE presents new work, Abaddon

2012-01-11T16:00:00.000-08:00

WIFE is creating a new piece.
abaddon.
february 17, 18, 24 and 25.

it is a ghost story.
19th century styles.

help make it happen:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1817806983/wife-presents-new-work-abaddon

Friday, December 16th, 2011

2011-12-16T11:21:00.000-08:00

come see WIFE perform the grey ones. fashion. dance. yea.

NEW CLASS TIMES

2011-11-10T17:59:00.000-08:00

DANCERS,

new teaching schedule for 2012:

Mondays: 7:30-8:30pm HEARTBEAT HOUSE
Tuesdays: 6:30-7:30pm SWEAT SPOT
Saturdays: 11:30-1pm SWEAT SPOT

2011-09-09T00:23:00.000-07:00

WIFE at TEDx SoCal Saturday, July 16th, 2011.

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May 6th, 2011 NEW WIFE PERFORMANCE

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March 6th, 2011 at the Bootleg Theater

2011-02-24T11:37:00.000-08:00

get your tickets now. a 30min show created and produced by WIFE (nina mcneely, kristen leahy, and jasmine albuquerque)
www.bootlegtheater.org.
$18

Groupo Corpo- Brazil's Leading Contemporary Company

2011-01-26T12:24:00.000-08:00

this weekend! don't miss it!

WIFE

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details coming soon...

Final MOCA show DECEMBER 2nd, 2010

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we plan to blow your mind...

MOCA thursday November 4

2010-11-08T17:24:00.000-08:00

Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays

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come dance with us!

Mondays: 7:30-8:30pm [heartbeat house]
Tuesdays: 6:30-7:30pm [sweat spot]
Saturdays: 12noon-1pm [sweat spot], 4-5pm [heartbeat house]

Locations: heartbeat house: 3141 Glendale Blvd 90039 (atwater village)
sweat spot: 3327 Sunset Blvd 90026 (silverlake)

Price: $10 sweat spot, different prices at heartbeat depending on the package...

More Info: www.heartbeathouse.com
www.thesweatspotla.com

Questions/Comments: email me: centralizedmarginality@yahoo.com

morcheeba video in the desert

2010-08-15T10:41:00.000-07:00

coming soon...

photo by Eliot Lee Hazel

change change change!

2010-08-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

dearest lovely students,

my tuesday/thursday morning classes at the SWEAT SPOT have shifted.

i will be teaching TUESDAYS 6-7pm and THURSDAYS 10:15-11:15am.
however, starting the week of September 6th, i will be teaching TUESDAYS 6-7pm and SATURDAYS 11-12noon.

3327 Sunset Blvd 90026, behind the tacos.
$10
www.thesweatspotla.com

classes at the HEARTBEAT HOUSE remain the same: MONDAYS 7:30-8:30pm, SATURDAYS 4-5pm

3141 Glendale Blvd 90039.
various prices.
www.heartbeathouse.com

2010-07-20T14:34:00.000-07:00

dACtors

2010-07-20T14:25:00.000-07:00

so, yes, my mother's dear friend and wonderful playwright Doraine Poretz cast me in her play ANAIS NIN: WOMAN OF THE DREAM
i am June Miller

would love you to come...

my very first role as an actress...

DANCE SHOW THIS THURS (7/22), FRI (7/23), and SAT (7/24)

2010-07-20T13:54:00.000-07:00

Mecca Vazie Andrews is an incredible choreographer/dancer
we will do her moves
3 nights in a row

if you got 25 bucks to spare, come see us move and support The Dance Fund

NATE HOLDEN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
4718 W Washington Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Parking lots at Washington and Vineyard Ave
Additional Street Parking

Tickets on sale at EDGE 323.962.7000 (edgepac.com)

2010-07-01T20:15:00.000-07:00

photo by eliot lee hazel

new classes in SILVERLAKE

2010-06-12T10:15:00.000-07:00

i teach TUES and THURS 10:15-11:15am

comedy is life: JUNE

2010-05-27T10:11:00.000-07:00

i c0-ch0re0graphed this fabulous trannie performance
only 2 nights left to see us!
happy gay pride weekend and congratulations to this years AIDS LIFE CYCLE RIDERS. SF-LA! woo woo.

looking forward to it

2010-05-26T09:25:00.000-07:00

come the week of JUNE 14th i will be teaching JAZZYSIZE at Ryan Heffington's new dance space: THE SWEAT SPOT: 33231/2 SUNSET BLVD, LA, CA 90026 directly behind Tarasco's Taco Stand.

alright!

TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, and TACOS!
more info as the time approaches...

student?

2010-05-26T09:14:00.001-07:00

all classes now $10 for STUDENTS at the HEARTBEAT HOUSE.
now, that's more like it.

DOWNTOWN classes POSTPONED until summer

2010-05-24T08:16:00.000-07:00

dear dancers,

so the studio i started teaching at downtown (www.loftensemble.com) needs a bit more time to organize the dance department. it functions as an acting space, and they are too busy at the moment with the theater programs to get the studio functioning. word is they would like to have the dance studio up and running in summer.

thus, i am not teaching there for the time being.
many apologies to those of you who have danced with me there or for those of you who planned to take class downtown.

as for now:

come take my classes at the HEARTBEAT HOUSE in Atwater Village (www.heartbeathouse.com): yes!

Mondays: 7:30-8:30pm
Saturdays: 4-5pm

see you soon!

$5 Performances May 29. Saturday. Chinatown. we dance. art all around

2010-05-22T06:44:00.000-07:00

outtatown

2010-05-12T07:37:00.000-07:00

PLEASE NOTE STUDENTS: i'm in NEW YORK until May 20th. i'll be teaching again Friday May 21st: subbing PILATES at the Heartbeat House @ 11:30am. Next class is Saturday, May 22nd: teaching CONTEMPORARY at the Heartbeat House @ 4pm. come, come. NY is inspiring, industrial, fast and full of decay. i like spy here. looking looking looking. i bring back a little east coast love. we mix, mash, smash, swoop! yes. dance dance dance dance dance!!!!!! see you soon!!!!

heartbeat house dance studio EXPANDS

2010-04-23T18:07:00.000-07:00

so the dear studio i've been teaching at for the past 5 years is expanding in size. in honor of a much needed extra room to move, we will be charging only $5 for all classes saturday May 1st, including my contemporary class at at 4pm. check out the schedule and come day for cheap on may day!
alright!

www.heartbeathouse.com

mailer MOVES me

2010-04-21T15:49:00.000-07:00

"movement is always to be preferred to inaction. in motion a man has a chance, his body is warm, his instincts are quick, and when the crisis come, weather of love or violence, he can make it, he can win, he can release a little more energy for himself since he hates himself a little less..."

-norman mailer, excerpt from "the white negro" written 1957.

hysterica dance company. hecuba. dance channel tv.

2010-04-19T00:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.dancechanneltv.com/
click on: "making a music video"

what what??!!!

2010-04-19T00:43:00.000-07:00

moves = cheap health insurance

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Mondays: 7:30-8:30pm (Heartbeat House-Atwater Village)
Tuesdays: 8-9pm (LOLA Loft-Downtown) STARTS: 4/27
Wednesdays: 10-11:30am (LOLA Loft-Downtown) STARTS: 4/21
Saturdays: 4-5pm (Heartbeat House-Atwater Village)

shakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitshakeshake

Last Fingered: Thursday. (4/15) $5. Come see us dance

2010-04-14T17:26:00.001-07:00

Hubbard Street Dance Comapny in town this weekend

2010-04-08T13:34:00.000-07:00

i'd have to say: hands down, all five of my favorite choreographers: one company dances, brilliant minds unite.

perhaps you would like to come too?

Music Center Downtown

http://www.musiccenter.org/cal/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=2687&year=2010&month=4

i teach: new classes: downtown: morning and night Starting 4/21

2010-04-07T16:47:00.000-07:00

Tuesdays: 8-9pm
Wednesdays: 10-11:30am

dancing for the people: dancing for the people is an open level dance class for all humans. it is a non-competitive class that uses movement to explore body awareness. we stretch like yogies, crunch like joseph pilates and run around wildly in sync like some abstract circus.

929 East 2nd Street #105 Los Angeles, CA 90012 (purple door. arts district)
www.loftensemble.com
only $6 until May 15th

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we crazy like dance tonight. (next thursday and next thursday too)

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saturday, mArch 13th

2010-03-01T01:09:00.000-08:00

come see us dance, festival styles: "East Hollywood
ArtCycle" Fundraiser saturday march 13th, 2010, 2pm-10pm

bikes+redheads+moves+love+african+swoops: free event! santa monica blvd from virgil to vermont will be closed off. we dance at 5:30pm...

mondays and saturdays

2010-02-18T16:40:00.000-08:00

come to class!

jazz: 7:30-8:30pm, every monday: 3141 Glendale Blvd 90039 @ the Heartbeat House
contemporary: 4-5pm, every saturday: 3141 Glendale Blvd 90039 @ the Heartbeat House

b0dybeauty

2009-08-05T11:10:00.000-07:00

Monday Moves

2009-08-05T10:59:00.000-07:00

i teach every monday night, 7:30-8:30pm
think african meets jazz meets contemporary meets abstraction meets walking across the street in style
@ the HEARTBEAT HOUSE 3141 Glendale Blvd 90039...super close to silverlake
can't wait to see you in class. 5 bucks when you're new! beginners welcome.

Sex in August

2009-08-05T10:57:00.001-07:00

dedicated to giants

2009-07-15T12:24:00.001-07:00

my heart and love goes out to Pina Bausch. hands down one of the most influential choreographers of our time.

wedding dance

2009-07-15T12:00:00.000-07:00

watch a short clip of us dancing at Lisa and Doug's Wedding at the end of May.
http://arduousglamor.blogspot.com/2009/06/may-31-2009.html

i teach every saturday

2009-02-25T08:57:00.000-08:00

yes.
come take class.
every saturday, 4-5pm
it's a psuedo mix of african, ballet, jazz plus a little ish and ism
no past dance experience necessary

Heartbeat House Dance Studio
3141 Glendale Blvd
Atwater Village (just over the LA River from the TJs in Silverlake)
90039
www.heartbeathouse.com
$5 when you are new to the studio, $15 when not.
let's move!

Sunday 3/1 Batsheva Master Class

2009-02-25T08:32:00.000-08:00

batsheva is hands down one of my faborite dance companies.
they are in town only this weekend, performing at UCLA both saturday and sunday night.
luckly for us, Ohad Naharin, the choreographer is conducting a masters class on Sunday @ 1pm

20 bucks
Mimoda Studio theater
5772 Pico blvd, Los Angeles, 90019

reserve by sending a check to the studio with your name, tele and email.
i wouldn't miss this unless a ginat pink heart fell into my room and asked for a place to rest her head for the night.

so. see you there.

shake that

2009-02-16T15:54:00.000-08:00

the echo
sunset and logan in echo park

9pm-randow arabia
10pm-pitter pat
10:30....we DANCE...big and BAD
11pm-holloys
12 midnite...surprise

come out. it's free. i'd love to see your face....

danza el domingo

2008-12-26T14:30:00.000-08:00

dance class 12-1pm
every sunday thus far until the bicycle takes me back to LA.

contemporary movements. shakes+steps+ballet+jazz+africa+canada+israel+a little bit of me heart.
@Casa Blues: Dr. Navarro Calle, #20: St Christobal de las Casas, Chiapas MEXICO

come play. 25 pesos.

2008-12-01T08:31:00.000-08:00

today is a nice day.

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i like hearts.
i like to teach.
i like eating pancakes. even when it's not sunday.

Monday December 1st

2008-11-29T16:20:00.000-08:00

dance. yes!

1-2pm
i teach, we move. you learn, i learn, we makie nice moves together...like a prayer.
$7
3141 Glendale Blvd. Atwater Village (Silverlake Adj) 90039
@ the HEARTBEAT HOUSE dance studio
yes again.

it could get illegal. smile.

and then...

2008-11-09T09:43:00.000-08:00

i will be making a sneak peek in this show...10ish. and it's super local! yay.

1930 Echo Park Blvd
angels and lost boyz. CA. 90026

lot's o bands. starts at nine. just up the street from Chango Cafe.

m0ve'n'art

2008-11-09T01:05:00.000-08:00

[people makie arta----------------we makie moves around d'art-----------------------------------da?]

t0Nite

2008-11-01T17:01:00.000-07:00

yes!

2000 hyperion ave, silverlake, ca 90027 @ The Goldbear Acedemy
3 bands+ME all mixed in. yay!
10pm.
$12 @ door. $8 if you are monsterous.

see you! and happy dia de los muertos! eve.
yes yes yes.

sea change

2008-10-11T01:07:00.000-07:00

photo by todd weaver...eyes of the prada badger...

Mustaches Tonight

2008-09-22T11:06:00.000-07:00

come out tonight and see a piece I choreographed with some incredible dancers. it's a late one so take a disco nap and head downtown. it's monday. what could be better?

La Cita: 336 S. Hil Street (@4th)
$5 all night, 10pm-2am
www.mustachemondays.com

an END to a month

2008-09-06T12:48:00.000-07:00

choreography wORkshop Sept 2nd

2008-09-01T12:26:00.000-07:00

what happens when you mix movement, music, history, sex, body parts, shapes, and shock in one giant bowl?
come find out.

www.http://thepublicschool.org/73/conceptual-choreography

aNd so it went

2008-08-22T21:19:00.000-07:00

Saturday August 16.

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mecca makes movement
we dance it.
come see...

www.mixla.org

tiMe to tiMe

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Jasmine Albuquerque is a freelance choreographer, dancer and teacher. In 2004 she worked under the direction of Netherlands Dance Theater's Artistic Director Glen Edgerton and created the duet bike piece Gabrilla's Ballistic performed at the Unknown Theater in Hollywood. Her work thrives on abstraction while challenging the contemporary scene. She moves from a central point of imagery while incorporating elements of humor, history and magical surrealism. Graduating from UCLA with a degree in History, choreography became her way of translating all she had learned, a map of juxtaposition and contradiction, exploring places rot in authority and fleeting moments of insecurity. Her other work has been seen at Diavalo Dance Space and for the monthly psycho dance show Fingered. She has danced with companies such as Hysterica and Collage Dance Theater and with musical talent including We Are the World, Hazm, and Hecuba in various venues around Los Angeles
such as the Hammer Museum, the Ford Amphitheater, The Orpheum, Pioneer Town and a laundromat on Sunset and Vine. She has choreographed music videos under the direction of Jennifer Tzar for Bob Wayne and danced in videos for Beck, Ingrid Michaelson, and You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead. Today she continues creating movement, picking up pieces of the city for inspiration while collaborating and working with choreographers such as Ryan Heffington and Mecca Andrews. Currently she teaches Contemporary Ballet and Dance for Non Dancers at a local studio in Silverlake. Her classes are a quirky combination of technique, musicality, placement, balance, playing with gravity and creating images through motion.

time to fall

2008-08-06T17:35:00.000-07:00

"I have a photo Philippe Halsman took of me in which i am doing a backfall, lit by a strobe light...One woman came backstage after the premiere and and said, 'How unrealistic to fall backward in a black evening gown. I would never do it.' I answered, 'Neither would I. But haven't you ever been in a room where someone you loved, who no longer loved you, walked in, and your heart fell to the floor?'"
-Martha Graham

august aBust

2008-08-02T08:30:00.000-07:00

i will be teaching a choreography workshop at the end of the month at TELIC in chinatown.

check it:

http://thepublicschool.org/73/conceptual-choreography/

bring a friend. or two!

Last Updated July 28th, 2012

2008-06-17T10:50:00.000-07:00

www.myspace.com/wearetheworldthecult
photo by Eliot Hazel

Time's Crutch

2008-06-17T10:35:00.000-07:00

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Crutches Never Hurt Me
A Mini Review of "Body Remix, Goldberg Variations"

I once thought of dance performance as a place of meditation. It was my third year of college and i had just seen a show at the Getty that seemed to do nothing but clear room for thought. Maire Chouinard and her dance film Body Remix, Goldberg Variations had just the opposite effect. In fact, i found myself unable to relax, perplexed by its beautifully grotesque complexity. I've been a fan of Compagnie Marie Chouinard since i first saw her in Budapest where i had been living in 2003. She blew me away, quivering in my seat after an hour and a half of gyrating movements, e animalistic and overtly sexual choreography. However, this time around the experience was quite different. On the surface level, the piece seems to question the issue of disability and the challenges of physical handicap. Of course, when perfectly fit and exceptional dancers run around in wheelchairs and crutches, creating movement difficult enough without prosthetics or point shoes, it seems that the finger is pointed back at the audience. Are the tools of disability being used to explore the relationship between movement and hadicap or inadvertently take them to a new dimension, replacing the sub with super? In a way, it reminded me of the Lyon Ballet where an entire ballet company did an hour length piece in fat suits, a mind fuck to say the least. In Body Remix, the challenge is more getting used to the fact that what appears to be an examination of disability is really of reinvention of impairment. Instead of causing immobility or disadvantage, each prop, whether a crutch or point shoe, takes the body to a new level, adding a mechanical element that, as the title implies, remixes the limitations of two legs, two arms, and a spine. Unlike the usual animalistic movements of Chouinard's work, the choreography was more human, almost alien, than anything else. Poles protruding from the mouth or spine, belly or pelvis become a sort of third arm, an out of context artistic statement of man as art meets man as machine. On a purely aesthetic level it was a mathematician's wet dream, a sort of visual orgasm of the geometrically obsessed. For a moment i was convinced she had tapped into the choreographers trap of body as beautiful: here is the body in its most perfect form. But the more i watched, the less convinced i was of a purely aesthetic examination. There was innovation and contradiction that went beyond any presentation of perfection. It was not a piece of subconsciousness or surrealism but a hyper-electric invasion of thought; a bedroom of existence in the middle of the freeway. i could not contemplate or loose myself in this piece, there was hardly room to take it in. The usual playfulness of Chouinard's work was replaced by stomping sexuality, whether it was a man with a pole attached to this penis, ecstatically banging it against another pole for a minute or a couple on strings attached to the ceiling, coupling and contorting in positions that made kamasutra look easy. And then suddenly all the heaviness and intensity, the poles and the crutches, the butt fucking and mind blowing is lifted, literally in the air, where all we are left with is a single dangling dancer, a yellow glowing background and wheelchairs hanging from strings like some sort of angelic graveyard of the impaired. As a dancer myself, i try not to search for meaning in movement. Powerful choreography creates commanding images. In body Remix, I found myself alone in the midst of these images, no meditation or room for thought, just an empty wheelchair where movement had once been.

and as for today

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coming soon

2008-05-19T17:38:00.001-07:00

in late april

2008-05-19T17:34:00.000-07:00

i dreamt of an empty swimming pool in front of the ocean where wild horses ran into the sea.

next next wednesday

2008-05-18T22:20:00.000-07:00

come see me dance at the key club.
choreographed by mecca vazie andrews
11.pm @ the keyclub in hollywood
who knows, maybe dolly will show up...

tomorrow is cool

2008-05-18T22:18:00.001-07:00

and the next day is even cooler.