Blue13 Dance Company
Blue13 Dance Company is an American dance ensemble based in Los Angeles, California. For over 20 years, Blue13 has connected diverse audiences through the power of aesthetically and culturally daring dance. They have taken their highly energetic and theatrical modern dance style throughout the US and aboard–a style inspired, in part, by the classical and cultural art forms of the Indian subcontinent. A first-generation South Asian American, Blue13’s Artistic director, Achinta S. McDaniel, creates art at the intersection of diaspora and disruption. Her work is as rebellious and unconventional as its architect, conveying the breadth and depth of her artistry through rhythm, joy, precision, humor, and emotion.
An NEA grant recipient and multi-NEFA National Dance Project finalist, Blue13 showcases a mastery of audience engagement through critically acclaimed stage productions, innovative immersive works, accessible community and educational programming, and thought provoking film projects, such as the award winning Firebrand Sway. Storytelling through dance is central to the company, as is continued inquiry and negotiation with classical, folk, and contemporary techniques with its diverse cast of dancers. Blue13’s work is moody and charged, and presents the audience with an intelligent experience of performance that turns the cultural stereotype of both Indian and American contemporary dance on its head.
Blue13 has performed internationally, including at 2008’s Fez: Queen of Cities with engagements at Royce Hall Los Angeles, Symphony Space New York, in Rabat, Morocco’s Mohammed V Theatre, and at UNESCO in Paris. Blue13 has been presented by University of North Carolina Wilmington, the Tahoe Arts Project at Cal Poly Arts San Luis Obispo, and Arts For Schools in Nevada and California.
Meeting at the intersection of technology, disruption, inclusion, and diaspora, each performance of Soliloquy is an exciting and unique adventure in which audience members become active participants who shape the work. McDaniel seeks to interrogate the ways in which technological connection coupled with isolation has specifically impacted people of the global majority. Audiences affect the narratives. You may peer through a window to witness clandestine trysts, sit for a dinner with a quarreling family, or even choose who dances the final solo.
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Dragon
D. Valentine
100 Seconds to Midnight: 1947
Terpsichore in Ghungroos
Restless autumn. restless spring.
Alisa Carreras by Peter Zuehlke
Dear Mr. Kha
Sean Daniels
Sounds Like Whoop. Looks Like Flash.
