oni dance

Oni Dance is a contemporary dance ensemble led by the choreographer and artistic director Maria Gillespie. Oni Dance is a pick-up company of LA’s finest contemporary performers that seeks to investigate movement concepts and human experience that elevates dance into a physical world ripe with kinetic volume and wit. With idiosyncratic movement and poetic punch, Oni Dance transfixes the eye on complex and sublime movement puzzles that seethe with intense physical skill and kinetic extremes. In Los Angeles, Oni Dance has been presented at The Ford Amphitheatre, The Getty Center, Disney Hall’s REDCAT, Highways, Electric Lodge, UCLA, The Fowler Museum, and numerous other venues. Oni Dance has performed in Tokyo, Japan at Kagurazaki Die Pratze Festival, Colorado, and NYC at The International Dance Festival and The Joyce Soho.The movement language of Oni Dance is fueled by the imagined, the remembered, and the actual worlds that originate from psychological events. These unfold into dances revealing the inevitable kinetic underpinnings and responses of the heart and mind.

* palpable encounters with the rawness of human experience * communicating the expressive volumes of bodies navigating between velocity and rest * movement that throws the limbs off the body, devours space, rides on momentum, and dives off center * intricate environments, internal & external * exposing the multi-faceted layers of the human psyche.

Saliendo a dance film
by
Oni Dance and True Pictures