Co-presented in partnership with BodyVox, to close out our season, 3A has invited LA-based dancer, choreographer, director Derion Loman to be our Guest Creative Director. Loman performed with 3A in 2021 as the dancer “White” in Darrel Grant’s Sanctuaries, and we are excited to work with him again as our 22/23 season Guest Creative Director.
We as humans are deeply connected to sound. Vibrations and frequencies have the power to heal, influence mood, remind us of the past and evoke emotions.
Featuring dancers Gretchen Rose Ackerman and Cody Brunelle-Potter.
DOORS AT 7:00 PM, SHOW AT 7:30 PM
RUNTIME: 70 MINUTES
Content Warning: this show contains partial nudity.
DERION LOMAN / CHOREOGRAPHER + DIRECTOR
Derion Loman is a Los Angeles-based Dancer, Choreographer, and Creative Director.
He started dancing at the age of 19 and graduated with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of California Santa Barbara. His career began in Ballet Hispanico’s Second Company, where he performed at a wide variety of different events, most notably the 2013 Presidential Inauguration. He went on to join Pilobolus Dance Theatre from 2013-2017, performing works created in collaboration with Sidi Larbi, Avshalom Poluk and Imbal Pinto, and OKGO, as well as collaborating on work with Javier De Frutos and world-renowned magicians Penn and Teller. He later went on to join Diavolo Architecture in motion and was a finalist for America’s Got Talent. Most recently Derion is known for being a Divisional Finalist on NBC’s World of Dance Season 3 and for the 2019 Emmy Awards. Currently he works as a freelance choreographer with an array of organizations including Google, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, and the Los Angeles Dance Film Festival. Derion finds himself drawn to projects centered around connectivity, collaboration, and human moments.
DAVID VAN TIEGHEM / COMPOSER
David Van Tieghem is the recipient of the 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition. He first remembers making music with pots and pans on the kitchen floor when he was about five years old, growing up in Ridgewood, NJ. As a teenager, he taught himself to play drums, and then studied percussion with Justin DiCioccio, of NYC's LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. He later attended Manhattan School of Music as a student of modern percussion pioneer Paul Price. He is currently based in the New York City and Hudson Valley areas with his wife, abstract photographer/painter/writer Cate Woodruff. Their daughter is actor/singer/dancer/ writer/activist Zoë Van Tieghem.
As a free-lance drummer/percussionist, he has worked with Steve Reich & Musicians, Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Arthur Russell, Flying Hearts, Peter Gordon's Love of Life Orchestra, Robert Ashley, Mimi Goese and Ben Neill, the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, Stevie Nicks, Howard Shore, Jon Gibson, Talking Heads, Robert Fripp, Scott Johnson, Robert Gordon, Arcadia (the Duran Duran spin-off), Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sergei Kuryokhin, Pink Floyd, Michael Oldfield, John Cale, Chris Spedding, Richard Peaslee, Twyla Tharp, Elliott Murphy, Nona Hendryx, Arto Lindsay, Bob Clearmountain, Jerry Harrison, Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, Adrian Belew, Merce Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Julius Eastman, Shelley Hirsch, Graciela Daniele, Anna Halprin, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Big Apple Circus with Philippe Petit, Bill Laswell, Ned Sublette, Tony Williams, David Cunningham, Lenny Pickett, Michael Nyman, David Moss, John Zorn, Anton Fier, the Golden Palominos, Eric Salzman and Quog Music Theater, Happy Traum, Tracy Bonham, Blondie, Dickie Landry, Charlie Sexton and Nexus Percussion, among others.
GRETCHEN ACKERMAN / DANCER
CODY BRUNELLE-POTTER / DANCER
ABOUT THE VENUE
Public transportation: BodyVox is located on the NS Streetcar line.
Accessibility: The venue is wheelchair accessible through the main entrance. There is one wheelchair street parking space diagonally opposite BodyVox, next to the blue Super Digital building.
Parking: BodyVox Dance Center does not have a dedicated parking lot. Free street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhood, but it may be crowded, so allow plenty of time to find parking.
ABOUT THE 23/24 SEASON
Third Angle’s 23/24 Season embarks on a journey from dreamworlds, to human connection, and even to the absurd. We’ll bend your mind with a glitching multimedia experience that turns censorship and surrealist video into musical psychedelia; ascend into a sky of ancient souls; celebrate Queer love and joy; and unify sound, mind, and body through vibration.
Joining us is a cast of artists including inaugural Guest Creative Director Derion Loman, soulful mezzo-soprano Hannah Penn, and Rabbit Rabbit Radio’s sonically rebellious Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi, not to mention some familiar 3A faces.
