Mecca Vazie Andrews will be reframing pieces from [title], a recent work created in dialogue with the paintings of Laura Owens at the Whitney Museum. [title] imagines a possible future, based on a collective process of defining the meaning of freedom through cultural friction, re-appropriation, and evolution. Andrews is a Los Angeles-based choreographer whose work engages with local communities and cultural histories through alternative performance experiences.

Suchi Branfman will be working on Carceral Landscapes – Freedom Dances with dancers/collaborators Ernst Fenelon Jr. and Amy Joy Oden. Carceral Landscapes – Freedom Dances is an evening-length performance in response to work Branfman did during her 2017 and 2018 artist residency at the California Rehabilitation Center (CRC,) a California state men’s prison located in Norco, California. The dance draws from experiences that surround the Prison Industrial Complex, including stories of a currently incarcerated entrepreneur, a female coach working in a men’s prison, the mother of a son incarcerated twelve hours away from home, a Zen Buddhist who teaches meditation inside prison and an incarcerated man who trains horses for the Angola Prison Rodeo in Alabama. And, in response to a question asked by one of the incarcerated dancers, the piece invites public response to the question: “What is Freedom?” Branfman will ask observers if they would like to contribute their thoughts on camera to the evolving work. On Saturday 6/9 at 11am Branfman leads Dancing by the Shore, an hour of dancing for children and families. Move, create and dance with others! Open to all ages, no experience required.

Rebecca Bruno is exploring open-air unfolding mindful movement in a project called Life Keeping Recipe for a Relic. The project uses dance and sculpture to examine natural regenerative cycles (as seen in permaculture) and their relationship to external variables, such as air quality and climate change. On Monday 6/4 at 6pm Bruno leads a workshop on Awareness & Movement using gentle guided motion. Offered both as part of Beach Dances and as a component of her residency with LACI (Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator), the workshop offers ideas and exercises for unlocking creativity through connection. Workshops are open to all who would like to translate bodily sensation into movement, drawing, and writing. Please wear clothing and footwear you are comfortable moving in. Bruno is leading other workshops at LACI and satellite locations throughout Los Angeles, incorporating these sessions into Life Keeping Recipe for a Relic, which is also her LACI residency project. rebeccabruno.net

CARLON will be creating a new work, tentatively titled △▽△▽ [four triangles], throughout the week. In △▽△▽ [four triangles], choreographer/director Jay Carlon joins forces with garment designer Anna Telcs, Grammy Award-winning musician Alex Wand and drummer Kevin Yokota to create a new dance theatre work powered by sacred geometry, cosmic alignments, resonant frequencies, chladni plates and random number generators. Dancers: Samuel Wentz, Shauna Davis, Kim Thompson & Raymond Ejiofor. On Sunday 6/10 at 11am Carlon leads Imagination, Movement & Flow, offering a space for free movement exploration, creativity, and groove. Participants are encouraged to find liberation in body & mind through the integration of dance improvisation and yoga. All ages, levels, abilities, body types, identities, and genders. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes that you can sweat in, and come in bare feet or socks. jaycarlon.com

Sarah Elgart | Arrogant Elbow are in rehearsal for upcoming performances this summer for the INSITU Site-Specific Festival in NYC and for Jacob’s Pillow in the Berkshires. They are working on material for a new work, entitled Shape of Memory. Inspired by the fact that light from a star is actually memory made visible, Shape of Memory explores how memory inhabits and informs the body and the self, the individual and the collective. With an original score by composer/guitarist Nels Cline of Wilco, in collaboration with composer Paul Chavez of FeltLike, Shape of Memory is a work about the ephemerality of dance and life and reclaiming things lost in the face of the unstoppable passage of time. SE | AE engages audiences by transforming and catalyzing stages, screens, and sites, and painting them with singular visuals and visceral movement drawn from the quotidian human experience. sarahelgart.com

Jeremy Hahn is working on SPIRITBODY. SPIRITBODY, choreographed by Hahn and directed by Stephen Beitler, was first commissioned by Cal Poly Pomona in 2015 and was further developed in 2016 at the Hammer Museum. Since it‘s premiere, Hahn has performed the work solo and with collaborators in galleries and theater spaces throughout Los Angeles. SPIRITBODY asks the viewer to surrender into a dream of sights, sounds, colors and movement inspired by mythology. facebook.com/WeAreEfflorescence

Pieter is a non-profit organization that provides a space for dancers to create a nurturing society. For Beach Dances, Pieter dancers share the stage for a Westside edition of their monthly open studio. Based on holistic support for all bodies, an open exchange of ideas and a reciprocity of generosity, Pieter is a place to be comfortable in the body-mind-spirit. Through workshops, classes, public performances, and residencies, dancers work and play together in a non-hierarchical environment. Ideas are embodied, exchanged and transformed rather than owned. There is a belief in abundance and goodness. There is a belief that everyone has something to give. At Pieter, brave dancing bodies are at home. pieterpasd.com

Alexx Shilling is rehearsing NOTHING THERE THERE (Topography); an embodied time-travelogue through Yiddishland (Belarus, Poland.) What forms will we give to memory? Nothing There There (Topography) is a multi-disciplinary dance performance that examines the bodily experience of visiting sites that for 1000 years teemed with Jewish life and Yiddish culture prior to World War II. Challenging the notion that there is "nothing there," this piece transposes fragments, feelings and perceptual frames to bring past and place together. Perfomers: Rebecca Bryant, Madison Clark, Pedro Jimenez, Daniel Miramontes & Alexx Shilling; Sound/Music: Zaq Kenefick, Graphic Design: Betsy Medvedovsky. The creation of Nothing There There (Topography) has been generously supported by PAM Residencies, Yiddishkayt, Asylum Arts, and Loyola Marymount University's Dance Department. The piece will be presented as an evening-length work in Winter 2018/9, venue TBD. alexxmakesdances.com

No)one. Art House will be working on a piece called RIGHT & L3FT. Created for children, but accessible for all ages, RIGHT & L3FT was commissioned by the Skirball Cultural Center for their annual Puppet Festival. No)one. Art House will be presenting this piece again on Thursday, June 7 as part of the LA Dance Platform Showcase organized by the Cultural Affairs Department for the DANCE/USA Conference. Choreographer: Chris Emile; Dancers: Kaylin Cabble and Kevin Zambrano. noonearthouse.org