Our own Achinta S. McDaniel choreographed The Strokes brand new 2016 music video, “Threat of Joy,” their first in years! Watch Blue13 dance in this fun, cool and silly as hell video by director, Warren Fu. WATCH NOW ON YOUTUBE
Ok, this is one of the best things I ever get to do as a dance instructor in LA. Don’t miss it: We open the summer season of DANCE DOWNTOWN with Bollywood & Bhangra at the Music Center June 3, 7-11pm! With Blue13’s Achinta S. McDaniel accompanied by DJ Scorpio, with Jag Tooray on Live Dhol Drum.
Beginner dance lessons, DJ, and open dance floor all night. Kids, families, teens, college students, adults, seniors, all are warmly welcome.
Open to all ages. Food & beverages available for purchase! Parking is $9 before 8pm and $5 after 8pm in The Music Center parking lot located directly under The Music Center Plaza. Access from Grand Ave.
Available tables & chairs for your use, please do not bring any lawn furniture or picnic blankets.
FREE!
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Explore the history and progression of Indian dance from folk styles like Punjabi Bhangra to today’s popular Bollywood dance. Energetic colorful and theatrical, Blue13’s mix of energetic jazz, hip-hop and modern dance with traditional Indian dances are impossible to resist.
Pre-show activities start @ 9:00 AM – Make a contact paper keyring using authentic Indian fabric! Activity presented by Mama Earth.
Children 12 and younger: FREE
Adults: $5
Open Seating | Advanced reservations recommended
Parking: $1
Listen to the interview of Achinta S. McDaniel on K-USC 91.5, “Arts Alive” with Brian Lauritzen! She discusses growing up as a South Asian American art maker, her history in the dance world, Blue13, and the upcoming Dance Downtown at The Music Center of downtown Los Angeles. (Scroll about 16 minutes through for Achinta’s segment.)
See Blue13 Dance Company’s new piece, “Among Whispers,” created for the site specific Moves After Dark™ at the Music Center August 8th, 15th-17th in Downtown Los Angeles. Featuring Live Music by renowned artists: Alma Cielo (Violin, Sarengi), and on Percussion, Dave Lewis and Kiran Gandhi, M.I.A’s drummer!
Moves After Dark returns for a second season, featuring Blue13 and three other contemporary dance companies that will provide compelling and inventive performances in a variety of non-traditional performance spaces around The Music Center campus.
Moves After Dark asks audiences to travel to where the dancers are performing and select their own vantage point. Audiences will be guided in rotating groups, watching separate performances simultaneously, and then joining together at the end of the evening for the final performance.
Approximately 2 hours. Each evening will feature the same companies and works.
Monday, Aug 8 | 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug 15 | 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug 16 | 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug 17 | 8:30 p.m.
OTHER PERFORMANCES BY:
Decadancetheatre
Invertigo Dance Theatre
Viver Brasil
I’m so excited to fly to Michigan tomorrow morning bright and early (send me good traffic vibes, LA). I’m honored to be setting a Bollywood piece on a group of talented dancers from the Young People’s Ballet Theatre in Flint. My family/friends from the Grand Rapids Ballet, Nick and Laura Schultz, asked me to come out and choreograph the grand finale of their student group, and I of course, happily accepted. Can’t wait to work with this young dancers, and to show you all the finished product. Look out for my tweets and instagrams all weekend!
-Achinta S. McDaniel
What a fabulous Los Angeles Dance Festival it was this year! We were so honored to perform alongside LA’s ROCKING DANCE COMPANIES, and so proud to be a part of this incredible community of dancers. Catch a snippet of our new piece, “the lion. the dragon.,” which served as the grand finale in the Friday, April 15, 2016 evening performances at the beautiful Diavolo space near downtown LA.
Brokus Project should be commended for a job well done, as should, of course, the outstanding choreographers and performers throughout the weekend. AND there’s more: Classes will continue as part of the LADF April 23 and 24, including Blue13’s own Jon Paul teaching a Bollywood/Contemporary Indian class AND AUDITION CLASS FOR BLUE13.
LA’s most diverse, eclectic and stunning dance ensembles perform all weekend at the Diavolo Space in downtown Los Angeles. Blue13 performs new work on 4/15- two performances- if rush hour kills your 7pm plan, we’ll see you at 9.
Dancers interested in Auditioning for Blue13 should take this workshop to be invited to a formal audition for the coming season.
Now Touring- Premiere Date: August 3, 2013
Blue13 recently premiered its new touring production inspired by Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. Bollywood Montagues meet Hip-Hop Capulets, and Bhangra battles B-Boys in this playful and contemporary dance theatre work filled with excitement, drama, love and tragedy.
Interested in bringing Blue13 to your stage?
( Contact us for booking )