Program areas at Invertigo Dance Theatre
Formulae & fairy tales is a full-length work casting the life of alan turing, mathematical genius and world war ii codebreaker and the technicolor mythology of his favorite film, disney's snow white and the seven dwarfs. After the war, turing was criminally prosecuted for being gay and forced into chemical castration. In 1954, he died by eating an apple laced with cyanide, an act eerily foreshadowed by snow white.the production places the cold, high-stakes world of mathematics, artificial intelligence, and cryptography alongside a vivid, twisted fairy tale palette. The choreography blends historical events, sexuality, gender identity, and our essential humanity. Sweeping video projections and an original music score create an immersive theatrical experience.
Walk the walk is a bold, new hybrid work that straddles contemporary Dance, performance art and queer community Theatre, offering up a vibrant fusion of choreography, storytelling and media. Themes of renaming rituals, queer labor, trans lineage and liberation are activated through dimensional choreography and storytelling generated collaboratively by k. bradford, cedric tai, cody brunelle-potter, d. hill, and lennon torres.this intimate collaborative work stands as a testament to representation and authenticity through an entirely genderqueer ensemble of la performers and dancers. Showcasing a series of vignettes "by us and for us," walk the walk amplifies personal and collective reflections, memories and speculations, inciting an electric portal into the realities of gender nonconforming experience.in a moment of emergent trans cultural production, the walk the walk ensemble taps into visceral presence: taking risks, taking the mic, and taking embodied space to be real with it! Invertigo invites our trans folks, enbies, allies, and everyone who wants to witness trans abundance.walk the walk premiered at la Dance project in september 2023 and is ready for booking in 2024.
Dancing through parkinson's (dtp), created by Invertigo Dance Theatre in 2011, provides year round Dance classes for people living with parkinson's disease and their family, friends, and caregivers. Dtp classes encourage joy, community, strength, balance, flexibility and keeping the mind alert. In addition to the physical benefits, dtp classes give participants an opportunity to express themselves creatively. There were two weekly class locations in la county in 2023 as well as digital offerings.