CLA
Center for Intercultural Performance CLA
Center for Intercultural Performance Artistic director / choreographer / dancer / costume designer / teacher
Monica Favand in the foreground
Monica
Favand is founder and Artistic Director of TRIP Dance Theatre.
Before moving to Los Angeles in 1996, Monica received her BFA
from Temple University and worked for five seasons with the
collaborative modern dance company Group Motion as a choreographer
and performer in Philadelphia. She has performed and presented her
work in Europe, South America and throughout the U.S. Monica has been
produced by Joyce SoHo (New York), the Ford Amphitheater, Skirball
Cultural Center, The Philadelphia Women's Theater Festival,
Philadelphia Dance Alliance, L.A.C.E. Theater, LA's Dance
Kaleidoscope Festival, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Painted
Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, DC DancePlace, Teatro Cervantes in
Argentina and the International Tanz Festival in Germany, among
others. Her choreography has been filmed and presented repeatedly on
PBS and produced by the Pennsylvania Ballet. She is the recipient of
a 1994 Choreography Fellowship from Pennsylvania Council of the Arts
and a 1997 Horton Award recipient for costume design. In 2004, she
was selected to participate in the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange
in Bali, Indonesia. For the past 7 years, Monica has enjoyed opening
the experience of dance to people from all backgrounds and ages as
facilitator of TRIP Dance Theatre's weekly, community-based
improvisational dance workshops. In addition to creating new works
for her company, Monica is currently acting Dance Chair and Director
of the Creative Academy of Education, summer dance program at Oakwood
School in Los Angeles.
Director
of public programs, Japanese American National Museum
Series producer of Sounds of LA Sessions, Getty Museum
Radio host of KPFK/90.7 FM’s “Global Village,”
Sabrina Lynn Motley is Director of Education and Public Programs for the Japanese American National Museum as well as its newly launched educational institution, the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. In this capacity, she oversees a diverse staff of educators, is responsible for creating a dynamic programming schedule, and is engaged in extensive community outreach and collaboration. Additionally, she was instrumental in the completion of a new, state-of-the-art, 200-seat theater located in LA’s historic Little Tokyo district.
A California native, Ms. Motley has a long history working with community-based artists and arts organizations. Prior to her tenure at the National Museum, she was a producing curator and consultant for the J. Paul Getty Museum. In this capacity, she programmed, produced, and/or created a number of highly successful performing arts series for adults as well as families. She has conducted ethnographic research for the Ford Foundation, written grants, participated in numerous funding panel deliberations, and sits on several arts planning committees. Ms. Motley has a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures and M.A. in African Studies from UCLA. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology. She is also the host of a world music program on KPFK 90.7 FM.
Director of Cultural Grant Programs, City of Los Angeles Dept of
Cultural Affairs
Joe Smoke is the Director of Cultural Grant Programs for the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, one of the largest and most diverse civic support programs for the arts in the United States. He has lectured widely on many topics related to creativity and commerce. With education degrees from Princeton University and UCLA, he is also as an art history professor specializing in the world history of photography.
Formed in 1925 DCA fulfills the City's responsibilities in the arts and manages 22 community arts centers as a method of providing cultural services in neighborhoods. The Cultural Grant Program provides artistic project support to established and emerging nonprofit arts organizations, individual artists, and arts-in-education specialists. Through its three professional theater facilities, the Facilities Division presents year-round, dance, music, theater, literary, and multi-disciplinary performances; supports the development of emerging and established Los Angeles based performing artists; and offers workshops for playwrights and writers of all ages.