CONCERT LENGTH WORKS
Soliloquy Immersive dance experience
Promotional reel of the immersive experience, Soliloquy.
World Premiere: May/June 2023 at Heritage Square. Funded by National Endowment of the Arts. Sponsored by ATK Audiotek.
Artistic director/Choreographer: Achinta S. McDainel.
Assistant Choreographer: Jon Paul.
Lighting: Benedict Conrad.
1947(Excerpts)
Commissioned by the USC Kaufman School, McDaniel creates an evening length work entitled, “1947” opens with a colorful Bollywood style segment and morphs into an emotional exploration of migration, colonization, and lost homeland as experienced during the Pakistan-India partition of 1947. McDaniel will stage the piece on Blue13 in May 2023 at the Wallis Annenberg Center.
World Premiere: April 2022, USC Kaufman
Artistic Director, Choreographer: Achinta S. McDaniel. Assistant Choreographer: Jon Paul.
Lighting: Michael Korsch.
Costumes: Achinta S. McDaniel, Kate Poppen
15 Minutes
Dear Mr. Khan (Excerpts)
Excerpts from the World Premiere of Blue13’s “Terpsichore in Ghungroos, Chapter 1: Dear Mr. Khan.”
World Premiere: February 21, 2020 Presented by the Wallis Annenberg Center, Beverly Hills.
Available for Touring (Live music optional).
Artistic Director, Choreographer: Achinta S. McDaniel. Associate Director: Jon Paul.
Lighting: Eileen Cooley
Music: Paul Livingstone
15 Minutes
Restless autumn. restless spring. (Excerpts)
Utilizing improvisation and collaboration to foreground process, Restless autumn. restless spring. strips away production to explore the impact of movement alone. Largely a response to the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, this piece is a rediscovery of what it means for artists to unite in a space to reflect on shared experiences.
Artistic Director, Choreographer: Achinta S. McDaniel
Assistant Choreographer: Jon Paul
Lighting: Brandon Baruch
Music: Sheila Chandra
15 Minutes
This is Blue 13 at the top of their game as the dancers handle all styles and transitions smoothly and without notice. The fusion has become so ingrained that there is no longer any reason to list the separate styles in their own right. This is simply Blue 13 doing what it does best and telling one hell of a story at the same time.
Brian Fretté
LA Dance Chronicle
The contemporary Indian dance troupe stomped belled heels into the ground with vigor and darted between tree-lined platforms with abandon, like sprightly revelers on a midsummer’s eve...magical.
Christina Campodonico
Los Angeles Times
The deft blending of such a myriad of pieces – movement styles, colors, light, music and costume is the hallmark of an organization that not only dives deep into study, but knows how to make choices that deliver a punch. I want to see them again. You need to see them.
Debra Levine
Arts Meme
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