The exclusive West Coast premiere of Colleen Thomas’ light and desire, a Bessie-nominated dance production centered on how women artists cope under oppressive power structures, opens at Loyola Marymount University as part of the LMU College of Communication and Fine Arts’ Lydia Hao Emerging Artists Series on Friday, Sept. 1, and runs through Sunday, Sept. 3.
Conceived and directed by Thomas, light and desire is a 55-minute multimedia project that uses movement, text, theatrical masks, and film to tell and uplift the narratives of women who have resisted oppression by creating their own forms of radical expression. Thomas, a Barnard Columbia professor, will perform alongside an international feminist cast that includes Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo, chair and professor of Dance. LMU students will join the show’s chorus.
“LMU is fortunate to share the stage with world-class choreographers and performers, who through this powerful performance, address important questions about how women hold, embody, and express power,” LeBlanc Loo said. “This production offers an invitation for the Los Angeles community to experience dance at LMU while providing vital opportunities for our students pursuing dance careers….”
Hah…are there still feminists? LMU better get with the times advancing such transphobic hate…Haven’t they heard? Anyone can be a woman and that means no one has to be a woman. So anyone that identifies as a woman can just identify as a man and get out from under whatever real or imagined oppressive power structures they’re facing.
Like for example, bullies that declare themselves women then go an break all kinds of athletic records that a woman will never come close to. Funny how they’re selective on which oppressive power structures are OK and which are not.
Semper Sixties. Feh.
This looks like it was something out of “Laugh In “.
What is “radical expression?”
I read the press release and that still isn’t clear.
Great, a liturgical dance interpretation of Laudato Si part II, which Pope Francis announced today he is writing. The Church’s leadership and institutions are nonserious.
Why not a mild feminist dance show.
Is it women or those who identify as women ? is it sponsored by bud lite ?, “while providing vital opportunities for our students pursuing dance careers….” ok that’s why we have a student debt problem , those pictures tell a lot about this ” production “.
Paranoia … choreographed
This isn’t art. This isn’t beautiful. This isn’t dance. Look at that ridiculous picture of those silly costumes. Whenever you think higher education or the arts or civilization can’t get much worse, it always does.
What ever happened to “the woman who rocks the craddle rules the world”?
I was looking at pictures from the 1950’s online, and it was a far more innocent age, though not perfect, where children could actually play outside without being kidnapped and forced into some type of sex trade, and the majority of families, which were larger, could actually own a home with a just father’s support.
Correction to my last post. It is “the hand that rocks the cradle.”
The ethnically diverse cast of women leaders in the arts also includes performer-filmmaker Carla Forte (Venezuela); dancer-choreographer Ildiko Toth (Hungary / Germany); dance curator, critic, and choreographer Joanna Lesnierowska (Poland); and filmmaker, dancer, and choreographer Ermira Goro (Albania/ Greece).
Thank you for promoting these women’s dance.
Diversity hires usually don’t qualify on the merits. That’s why they’re diversity hires instead of regular hires.
What decade are you in?
Ethnic misappropriation – they are all white. It’s a lie to call them ethnically-diverse.
You’re confusing ethnicity and race. People of the same race can have different ethnicities. Caucasian is a race. Polish is an ethnicity, and so is Italian. You can have two white women, one Polish, the other Italian, and they have the same race but different ethnicities.
Still not diverse enough. Where are the Far Eastern and Near Eastern ethnicities, the Mediterraneans, the Pacific islanders, the Austro-Asians, the multi-ethnic Africans?
I wouldn’t call this garbage ethnically diverse. Majority European cultures sprung from Christianity, so they have more ethnical similarities in addition to race. Just how narrowly would you define people of similar race according to ethnicity? Is ethnicity the same as nationality?
I think this show appropriates the term “ethnically diverse” just because it’s trendy, just like “woke” and “relatable.” A few years from now, those terms will slide down the dumpster of history, just like “groovy to the max,” “new age,” “far out,” “hip” and whatever “aquarius.”
Not that people of the colored ethnicities care. I don’t think majority give a hoot to for this kind of stuff, especially those whose main concern is how to earn a living and live from day to day. Go to an elite Catholic college, pay enormous amount of money, and what do you get? This educational dance.
You are thinking of racial diversity.
“Exclusive West Coast premiere”? Um, this “show” has been out for three years, occasionally being performed in very small venues. Just shows you that there’s no demand for junk like this. Nobody else on the West Coast wanted to host it, so LMU got it three years after its true premiere.
Maybe I’d watch it if you paid me $100k.
LMU website say tuition is $55,441.
Who got dat kinda money fo dis?
CNN has an excellent article on two Kenyan runners who were murdered by their intimate partners.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/25/sport/iten-killings-women-athletes-domestic-violence-kenya-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html
is there anything, anyone normal at LMU?