SITE AND WRITE: HEIDI DUCKLER and MERRIDAWN DUCKLER will discuss "SITE DANCE," plus a SHORT DANCE PERFORMANCE

Start: 11/21/2009 7:30 pm

End: 11/21/2009 9:00 pm

Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces (Univ. Press of Florida)

A very special event featuring readings by two contributors to the new anthology Site Dance, as well as a solo performance in our store, presented by Collage Dance Theatre!

Collage Dance Theatre Founder/Artistic Director Heidi Duckler has created and presented over sixty dance performances in disparate venues in New York, Miami, Las Vegas, Portland, Oregon, Hong Kong, China and throughout Southern California including the Lincoln Heights Prison, the Los Angeles River, the Subway Terminal Building, the Herald Examiner Building, the Ambassador Hotel and the LA Police Academy. Called “the reigning queen of site-specific performance” by the L.A. Times, Duckler has served as consultant to Aben Dans in Denmark.

Merridawn Duckler has published in Carolina Quarterly, Georgia State Review, and Main Street Rag, among others, with current work in Isotope, Green Mountains Review, NarrativeNight Train. She is a two-time winner of Society of Professional Journalists Award and was nominated for Best Creative Non-Fiction Anthology 2009 and a Pushcart. She teaches at The Attic in Portland Oregon and is an Associate Editor at Story Quarterly.