Improv Dance Festival

Presented by:

Making Faces Productions

The 4th Annual Los Angeles Improv Dance Festival (iD Fest 2008)
January 15–21, 2008 (MLK Weekend)

Newly expanded to 2 studios for more workshops, performances, and jams!

Now at the DIAVOLO PERFORMANCE SPACE & LAB
The Downtown Brewery Arts Complex
616 Moulton Street
Los Angeles, CA 90031

A week of movement workshops, performances, and jams in sunny Los Angeles, California. The festival is an exploration and celebration of the variety of improvisational movement styles and alternative dance techniques; featuring Contact Improvisation, Site Specific Laboratory, Improv Partnering, Improvisational Performance Structure, Ensemble Movement, and integrating sound, voice, theatre, sets and structures into performance.

NEW Multi–Studio Festival Location
NEW Extended Workshops
NEW In–Site Collaboration Performances: Each Show Is Different
NEW Bigger Jam Schedule

In–Site Collaboration Performance
An exciting new approach to improvisational performance, which matches up national and international artists from all over the world to collaborate on new works, as well as local dancers and festival participants with the internationally renown instructors of iDfest to produce a unique and enigmatic performance experience each night. Come to all!

Friday and Saturday – January 18th & 19th, 2008 @ 8:30pm
Sunday – January 20th, 2008 @ 2:00pm
$20 General, $15 Student / DRC, Friday Pay–What–You–Can

Tickets Online at BrownPaperTickets.com.

Jams: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday, and Monday, 7:30–10:30pm.

Improv Dance Workshop Price Breakdown
$350–450 (sliding scale)	Entire Festival ($280 if deposit made by Dec. 25 MERRY XMAS) (includes intensives, all other workshops, performances & jams)
$150	One Intensive Only ($125 if deposit made by Dec. 25) (includes 5–day workshop w/ Kim Epifano OR Carolyn Stuart – No Drop–ins)
$80	One Mini–Intensive Only ($60 if deposit made by Dec. 25, OR DROP–INS $25) (includes 3-day workshop w/ Stefanie Cohen/Rachel Walker OR C. Derrick Jones)
$60	One Extended Workshop OR Three Single Workshops (No intensives, performances, or jams)
$25	One Workshop (No intensive drop–ins, space–available only)
$20	In–Site Collaboration Performance – iDFest Faculty Performance & Jam
$15	In–Site Collaboration Performance – Student/DRC price
$50	All Jams & Performances
$5	One Jam

Click here for Schedule.

Click here for Mail in Registration (PDF)

Tickets Online at BrownPaperTickets.com.

Workstudy available for $30 and $60 shifts of credit applied to your registration, please contact:

Jones Welsh
PO Box 241193
Los Angeles, CA 90024
818-618-4772
jonesw@makingfacesproductions.org

Free Parking at Diavolo Performance Space in the Downtown Brewery Arts Complex:

I-5 Main Street Exit
Turn South (on Daly if N I–5, or Ave 20 if S I–5)
R turn onto North Main Street
Go about 2 blocks
L turn onto Moulton Ave
Diavolo sign visible on L

101 Alameda Exit
R on N Alameda St. after loopy exit
Cross Union Station on R
Turn R on Alpine Street – SAME AS N Vignes St.
(This is a construction detour under the Chinatown subway stop)
Immediate L onto N Main St.
Go about 2 miles
Cross Rail Road Tracks
R turn onto Moulton Ave
Diavolo sign visible on L

LA Metro (www.metro.net) ALLOW TIME!
Rail: Red, Gold, or Purple Lines to Union Station

From Union Station
Walk across Alameda Street in front to the
MAIN ST/CESAR CHAVEZ AV(NE corner, behind gas station)
Ride METRO BUS 76 (EL MONTE STATION) heading north
To MAIN/AVE 20(SE corner)
This is the front of The Brewery, (if you go under I–5, you’ve gone too far)
walk down Moulton to find Diavolo on your Left.

Or from Union Station
Ride DASH LINCOLN HTS/CHINATWN (LINCOLN HTS–CHINATOWN CLOCKWISE) heading north
From: VIGNES ST/CESAR CHAVEZ AV(NE corner)
To: MAIN ST/AVENUE 20