Summer 2018
Through an eight-month engagement with homeLA, artists Rebecca Bruno and Alison D'Amato culminated their residency on June 24, 2018 with a salon-style event, WHERE DO WE MEET? The event comprised a performance based on a choreographic score by D'Amato entitled The Sacred Something, a painting and sound installation by Bruno entitled Existential Air, and a discussion on the convergence of their two practices.
This creative collaboration was a major impetus for the founding of TRP.
Rebecca Bruno
Rebecca Bruno is a dance artist working across performance and visual art. Her work investigates awareness and embodiment in relation to social and environmental change. In 2013, Bruno founded homeLA, a performance project dedicated to dance process in private space partnering with body-based artists and Los Angeles residents. Bruno is half of Objects for Others with artist Mak Kern. Her works have been presented at such venues as The Hammer Museum, The Norton Simon Museum, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, REDCAT Theater, the Bootleg Theater, Tin Flats with FLAX, The Pit Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Movement Research NYC, and the LAB, Jerusalem.
Alison D’Amato
Alison D’Amato is a researcher, choreographer, and performer based in Los Angeles. She holds a PhD from UCLA, an MA in European Dance Theater Practice from Trinity Laban (for which she was awarded the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship) and a BA in Philosophy from Haverford College. Both her scholarly and choreographic work focus on choreographic scores. D’Amato has taught seminar, lecture, and technique courses at UCLA and the California Institute of the Arts. Her dances and scores have been presented in Los Angeles at Anatomy Riot, Pieter PASD, The Hammer Museum, and homeLA; in New York at Movement Research, the Tank, AUNTS, Waxworks, Dixon Place, and BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange; as well as in Philadelphia, the UK, and Poland. Her collaborative work with dance theater company Dead Genius (2002-2005) has been presented by the Berkshire Fringe Festival, P.S. 122, Chashama, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Brown University, and the University of Pennsylvania.