Lola Lola Dance Theatre (formerly Odonata Dance Project) creates collaborative, interdisciplinary, often multi-media works of dance theatre and has been making performances for site-specific and traditional venues since 2003. The company has performed extensively in New York City and has traveled throughout the North East, the Mid-West and to Colorado.
Recent highlights include performances at La Mama, Etc. as part of FAB! Fest and The Heat is On. Past performances include the first iteration of Ectospasms (2009), a dance theatre foray into turn of the nineteenth century Spiritualism, mediums and the human desire to connect with the intangible, created in conjunction with the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality and presented by the New York International Fringe Festival.
Tethered (2007 – 2008), a melding of poetry, movement and Victorian perspectives on femininity, was shown in various stages of development at the Estrogenius Festival, Micro Museum, FAR Space, Fertile Ground, Hatch, Dance New Amsterdam, Public Assembly, White Wave’s Dumbo Dance Festival and was also adapted to be a six-hour multimedia installation piece performed in a loading bay for the 2007 Fashion District Arts Festival presented by Chashama. Odonata received a rehearsal space grant from the Field, which greatly contributed to the development of Tethered.
Etymology of a Person (2007), was the company’s first foray into aerial performance and video projections, which premiered at BRIC Studio in Brooklyn, NY and subsequently traveled to the Boulder International Fringe Festival.
Aspiration: Housewife (2006), was Odonata’s dance theatre narrative work for the New York International Fringe Festival and Selective Memory (2005), was an evening length concert.