Name: EXPANSIVENESS: CHANGING PERSPECTIVE
Start: 2018-08-24T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2018-08-25T22:00:00-07:00
Location: A+D Architecture and Design Museum

EXPANSIVENESS: CHANGING PERSPECTIVE

Witnessing a slim ratio of opportunity per number of females in the dance industry, Victoria Brown and Sarah Rodenhouse founded MashUp Contemporary Dance Company in 2010 to provide more avenues for women in dance to be heard and seen. This commitment to uplift female-identifying artists of all cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds is the company’s strong anchor.Leading with core values of empowerment, creativity, community, diversity, and innovation, the company aims to embody and exemplify inspirational, inclusive leadership and collaboration within the arts, spark conversation around inclusive, intersectional feminist idealogies; democratize the creative process; and work towards a more equitable future for the dance industry and beyond.Since its founding, MashUp has been privileged to work with over 350 women artists. The company has produced 8 full-length works, performed throughout Los Angeles County, and toured at several national festivals. Currently, the company sustains 5 core annual programs - an International Women’s Day Dance Festival, a Choreographic Residency for a mid-career artist, donation-based Open Company Classes, after-school dance programming, and an event commemorating National Women’s Equality Day.MashUp is committed to cultivating a collaborative, inspirational community that is welcoming to all female-identifying artists and allies; to serving as a space for female-identifying artists to be uplifted, mid-career artists to receive support, and early-career dancers to have accessible opportunities to train and grow; and to providing arts engagement opportunities for people of varying backgrounds, cultures, experiences, races, abilities, and socio-economic statuses to celebrate and participate in the wealth of thought and creativity that female-identifying artists bring.As a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, MashUp relies on the generous support of individuals and corporations to continue developing original works and meaningful programming that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and inclusion. To learn more about how you can support and be a part of our work, go to mashupdance.com/getinvolved.www.mashupdance.com

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Architecture studio <A HREF="http://curiousminds.la/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CMLA</A> and <A HREF="https://www.mashupdance.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MashUp Contemporary Dance Company</A>, in collaboration with the <A HREF="https://aplusd.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A+D Museum</A> and <A HREF="https://www.homemakelabs.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HomeMake Labs</A>, present Expansiveness: Changing perspective.  This immersive performance evokes both spatial and social manifestations of expansiveness.  
The physical and projected environment is a design implementation of CMLA’s ongoing research project Architecture of Effortless Attention, through which the studio is investigating means and methods for producing qualities of mystery and novelty to promote psychological wellness.  MashUp’s choreography brings the audience through a narrative of identifying truth among the thoughts we each project upon ourselves and upon each other. The performance explores the potential of people recognizing a problem, considering solutions together, and collectively producing change through the expansion of one small idea.  
Co-produced by two female-owned organizations, Expansiveness: Changing perspective celebrates Women’s Equality Day with performances on August 24 and 25
 
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MashUp Contemporary Dance Company is a non profit all female contemporary company that aims to create artistically innovative works and engage diverse communities in the invaluable experience of dance through performances, after school educational programming, and participation with the Los Angeles Dance Community. MashUp thrives on collaboration with other choreographers and dancers as well as creating an inclusive and approachable environment. MashUp strives to inspire its audiences by exploring and creating a unique MashUp aesthetic combining jazz, modern, and hip hop vocabulary with a foundation strongly rooted in ballet. MashUp aims to share the gift of dance and use it to empower young minds and bodies with a special importance placed on motivating girls and women to be strong, confident, and articulate females.
CMLA envisions a new future of experience design within our media-rich urban cultures. The name, “Curious Minds Los Angeles,” embodies the studio’s vision to bring the subjects of our curiosities—nature, neuroaesthetics, performance art, industrial design, and social media—into design realities that actively engage the mind and emotions. CMLA relies heavily on interdisciplinary collaboration to investigate various scales of spatial intervention, the unexpected and wonderful moments created by carefully employing visible and invisible material palettes. The studio is passionate about the potential for architecture to improve human well-being with each sensory experience. The office is run by Erin Cuevas and Jana Masset Collatz, two women with unique backgrounds who quickly found common ground and a strong friendship while studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The young practice is committed to shaping the exciting future of both design pedagogy and practice.
The A+D is a place for individuality, creativity, discovery, and continuous questioning. It is a location of serendipitous combustion resulting in endless exhibitions, events and cultural engagement bringing LA to the front line of emerging themes, topics and thoughts of the Architecture and Design community. Established in January 2001, A+D is the only museum in the country to exclusively and continuously host architecture and design exhibitions, symposia, multi-disciplinary projects, educational, and community programs.
HomeMakeLabs is an architecture, video game, and visualization laboratory focused on programming physical space and building digital space. Trained as architects at the Graduate School of Design, founders Matthew Conway and Cory Seeger infuse narrative and atmosphere into the creation of physical and non-physical environments.

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