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Artist: Diavolo Dance Company
Gener: Ballet
Background:
Diavolo was founded in 1992 in Los Angeles by Jacques Heim. Jacques Heim created this company “to create large-scale interdisciplinary performances which examine the funny and frightening ways individuals act with their environment.” Born in Paris, Jacques Heim did schooling in The United States and England and later completed his dance training at the California Institute of Arts. The Diavolo Dance Company comprises of dancers, gymnasts and actors who work under Heim’s guidance. Diavolo has arrested the critics’ attention from the very inception.
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After seeing Diavolo’s first Los Angeles performance, Los Angeles Times dance critic Lewis Segal wrote of Heim that the performance "establishes him as a creative force in the community, someone with both a compelling vision and the ability to inspire others to uncompromising performances." In 1993, the young company was nominated for two Lester Horton Awards in Los Angeles. In 1995, Diavolo made its inroad in to Europe at the Edinburgh Festival where it was named “Best of the Fest by The London Independent and Critic’s Choice by The Guardian. The company received three Lester Horton Awards in 1995 for the work Tete en L’Air. In 1997, Artistic Director Jacques Heim was recognized by the Los Angeles Times as one of "36 Faces to Watch." Diavolo uses high-risk, extremely physical and athletic work.
Diavolo’s performers are dancers, gymnasts, athletes, and stunt people participating in an experiment in the extraordinary as oversized, surrealistic versions of structures such as doors, chairs, and stairways provide the backdrop for the company’s thrilling, dramatic movements. Diavolo’s acclaimed artistic director, Jacques Keim, recently choreographed Cirque du Soleil’s newest production
Diavolo’s residency program, Learning To Fly, offers a broad range of community and educational workshops complementing the company’s dance performances. Employing the Diavolo technique, the program encourages risk-taking, trust and teamwork as means for achieving personal goals and interpersonal aspirations. Reaching In/Reaching Out currently offers four student level (K-12) workshops, and five college, community and professional level workshops. The residency programs are continually being adapted to fit a particular group’s affinity or needs.
Diavolo Dance Theatre is looking for strong, male, modern dancers who have dance teaching experience, especially with in-school programs, for its pilot Educational Dance Company. This is a Los Angeles based, part time, and somewhat flexible, commitment throughout the school year. There is some pay for performances and teaching engagements only.
Dancers will be trained in the Diavolo technique, rehearsed in the in-school concert performance, and will be required to take one of the Diavolo Los Angeles Summer Intensives in July or August. The intensive is free to company members.
