“Keeping Up with the (Gender) Narrative”: Faye Driscoll’s Choreography Residency
Abstract
Faye Driscoll is an energetic, voraciously curious, genre-bending dance-theater maker who is changing the landscape of concert dance. Though she has only been making original work since 2005, the New York–based dancer and Los Angeles native has already been identified as “one of 25 to watch out for” by Dance Magazine, and was awarded a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award for her autobiographical work “837 Venice Boulevard”. She was the perfect person, therefore, to launch the Residency Program for Movement (RPM), a new initiative by the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance designed to bring outstanding young choreographers to UCLA and Los Angeles. Under the leadership of renowned choreographer and WACDance professor Victoria Marks, the pilot venture of the residency initiative took place from April 23 to May 5, 2012.