Join us as Dance at the Odyssey takes a bright look forward with this summer lineup of adventurous and vital work by some of L.A.’s best and boldest choreographers. Curated by Barbara Müller-Wittmann, the festival includes KAIROS Movement Collective, Alive & Well Productions, Felicia St. Cyr, TRIN Dance Theatre, Victoria Marks, TORRENT, Caitlin Javech, Gretchen Ackerman, Corina Kinnear & Jordan Saenz.  There’s always something very exciting about big stories in small spaces

Schedule

JUNE 21 at 8pm

KAIROS Movement Collective & Alive & Well Productions

KAIROS Movement Collective is a Los Angeles grown dance collective, founded in September 2024. KMC is a group of movement creatives driven by the desire of community connection to facilitate growth and evolve as both dance artists and as human beings. Founded and directed by Kaley Logan (they/them), a queer, trans non-binary choreographer, artist, and instructor from Tampa, FL, currently based in Los Angeles, CA. As an artist, their work is driven by the intent of melding articulate sound and intentional movement alongside the simple authenticity of human experience and connection. KAIROS Movement Collective is fueled by this thought process and highly prioritizes the concept that every creative in our space is both a student and an educator.

Alive & Well Productions

Annie Kahane’s Alive & Well Productions creates theatrical worlds that possess odd but legible logic. The company’s works wonder about collective consciousness, dreamscapes and the potential for live art to create resonance across differences. Kahane founded Alive & Well Productions in 2014. Since then her performance works have been supported by the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, New Music USA, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, ODC Theater and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, among others. Her poetry has been featured on multiple NPR stations. She currently teaches at UCLA’s school of World Arts & Cultures/Dance, and in the Theatre Departments at Pepperdine University and CSU Northridge.

Composer Kian Ravaei (b. 1999) takes tone painting to a new level, synthesizing diverse inspirations into evocative musical portraits. Whether he is composing a string quartet inspired by wonders of the natural world, electronic music that evokes the pulsating energy of late-night dance clubs, or a symphonic poem that draws from the Iranian music of his ancestral heritage, he takes listeners on a spellbinding tour of humanity’s most deeply felt emotions.

Felicia St. Cyr

JUNE 22 at 7pm

Felicia St. Cyr (she/they) is a movement artist, director, and aspiring clown committed to energy exchange through raw performance and ritual practices. Originally from Houston, Texas, they earned a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts in 2018, including a semester at London Contemporary Dance School, where they created a solo that toured nationally in the UK. St. Cyr’s work navigates personal identity and duality, drawing on satire through text, movement, and humor—with a recent venture into stand-up comedy. Grounded in a foundation of dance training, they approach visceral storytelling with a desire to expand beyond the fourth wall. In the U.S., their choreography and performance work has been presented at REDCAT, Highways Performance Space, LiveArtsLA, and Stomping Ground LA. They’ve participated in Rosanna Gamson’s Terra Nova residency and Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company’s Choreography Lab. Their first evening-length work examined post-Vietnam America through the lens of wartime technology, gendered violence, and pop culture mythology. In 2019, they were named runner-up for the Ann Hicks Choreographic Fellowship. Beyond choreography, St. Cyr has appeared in music videos and fashion campaigns for Calvin Klein, Andrew James, and Valente. Their hobbies include stargazing and talking about Texas.

TRIN Dance Theatre

JUNE 26-28 at 8pm

TRIN is a contemporary dance theatre company directed by three Los Angeles dance artists: Monica Williams, Tippy Dringman, and Mason Gray. After 7 years of creating and performing together, the trio collectively founded TRIN as a dance theatre project in 2021. TRIN is a collective that exists out of friendship, is centered upon community, and creates safe spaces to connect, explore, play, and perform. TRIN’s dance work is theatrical, daring, sensual, queer, comedic, and a real labor of love for one another and the stories we have to share.

Monica, Tippy, and Mason met at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where they each earned their Bachelor of Arts in Dance. They naturally gravitated toward one another and quickly became close friends and creative collaborators. TRIN has been creating and performing together since 2016, where they have shown original works at Highways Performance Space, Stomping Ground LA, Hooverhaus, Thymele Arts, G-Son Studios, The Nocturne Theatre, East Hollywood Performing Arts Center, and Atwater Village Theatre.

Victoria Marks

JUNE 29 at 5pm

Victoria Marks, an Alpert Award winner, Guggenheim and Rauschenberg Fellow, and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, has been practicing knowing and unknowing, making dances for stage and film, for the past 38 years. Marks’ creative work migrates between choreo-portraits and action conversations for individuals who don’t identify as dancers, and dances for dancers that fuel her inquiries into movement. Victoria is a professor at UCLA and serves as Associate Dean in the School of Arts and Architecture, and as the Chair of UCLA’s Disability Studies minor.

TORRENT, Caitlin Javech

JULY 2 & 3 at  8pm

T O R R E N T is a project-based dance company creating multidisciplinary choreographic works for stage, film, and installation. Rooted in collaboration, T O R R E N T serves as a nexus for LA-based dancers, actors, composer-performers, writers, and researchers across diverse fields. Through collective risk-taking and artistic inquiry, the company moves like water—shaping, adapting, and pressing forward—crafting performances that reflect the currents of our time and the depth of human connection.

Launched in July 2023 by Artistic Director Caitlin Javech, T O R R E N T has had a striking inaugural season. The company has presented over thirteen performances across Los Angeles, New York, and New Mexico; received two prestigious commissions from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ Performing Arts Division; completed five choreographic residencies across the country; and produced two original works for film. Now in its second season, T O R R E N T continues its ongoing commitment to bold, multidisciplinary performance and collaborative experimentation.

Gretchen Ackerman

JULY 5 at 8pm

Gretchen Ackerman received her formal training form the Grand Rapids Ballet School and Alonzo King’s LINES training program; where she had the opportunity to work with Alonzo King, Patricia Barker, Maurya Kerr, Arturo Fernandez, Shannon Gillen, Giaconda Barbuto, and Gregory Dawson. From there she joined Dark Circles under the direction of Joshua Peugh. While there, original works were set on her by Peugh, Sidra Bell, Eoghan Dillon, and Mark Caserta. Upon moving to Los Angeles, Gretchen began creating and performing her own works as well as creating original works for Rosanna Gamson. She values the disciplining of the self through understanding the body, the mind and how to use those to communicate ideas clearly and honestly.

Corina Kinnear & Jordan Saenz

JULY 6 at 5pm

Corina Kinnear has been awarded Residencies at the PARTS in Brussels, the CND in Paris, and TanzFabrik in Berlin, and the Gloria Kaufman Vista Center.  Her full length production “naked” premiered as a part of the Odyssey Theatre Dance Festival in 2018, and then continued with a 15 show run in downtown LA.  During the pandemic, “ocean 12” a beach heist production was presented at 11pm on Santa Monica beach, and then continued for 4 more stolen evenings. “Lost Time” was created with 12 Los Angeles Artists as the beginning of an exploration of the relativity of time. “Forgotten Time” continues this research.

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Festival Date and Time:  Jun 21, 2025 – Jul 6, 2025

Location: Odyssey Theatre - Theatre 3

2055 South Sepulveda Boulevard

Los Angeles, CA 90025.

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