Upcoming Performances!

Please support LA Unbound dancers as they perform in various shows in the coming days/weeks:

Emily and Mary John are performing in Studio A's DanceSpot tomorrow!
Saturday, June 27th at 8pm at Studio A (2306 Hyperion Ave.)
Tickets are $20 at the door or buy them for $15 HERE in advance.

James, Thuy-Van, and the rest of Earthwalk Dance Company are performaing in "Poisoned" at Studio A!
Saturday, July 10th and Sunday, July 11th at 8pm
Tickets are $20 at the door or get them HERE in advance.

So You Think You Want to Dance

The age of television has brought with it a new era of dance.

The constant plight of the artist (or dancer as it were) to gain support to create, exhibit and develop their craft. There is never enough money for smaller dance organizations and sometimes not even for well-established companies. Schools are constantly cutting back fine arts programs and after school activities involving dance.

However, if dance is so unnecessary and superfluous to modern man, why is it that television shows like "America's Best Dance Crew" and "So You Think You Can Dance" can pull in over 1 million viewers weekly?

Through the popularity and diversity of these shows, the American public (and we can guess perhaps the international audience as well) has latched onto the idea of using dance as a means of expression. Not only is dance for the professional dancer, but it is a way to communicate in the vernacular....on the streets, in the clubs, on the playground and eventually, on the stage.

Weekly audiences tune in to follow their favorite dancers, to hear their favorite songs and to maybe (in the comfort of their bedrooms) learn the movements themselves. Not only do we go through the process of rehearsing and growing with the dancers on the show, but we are allowed the ability to critique them, as if watching the show every week immediately qualifies us to judge dance properly and objectively.

So the question we are left with is this: how are we going to turn this newfound appreciation of dance into lifelong support of the artform? Now that we have your attention, how do we challenge you to continue to explore dance, to learn about its many forms, its history and to support it with time and money?

I think the solution is to start small. Take one dance class. See one dance show. Take one small step into the larger world of dance. Discover something outside of the realm of television. While it is great that these shows have captured the attention of the mass audience, we have to take the seed that has been offered to us, plant it wherever we can, and allow it to grow and change.

Upcoming Events!

We're so excited to be getting ready for our upcoming performances!
Here's what we've got going on:

Free Dance Classes: Sunday, June 28th from 1-4pm
1-2 is jazz, 2-3 is hip-hop, and 3-4 is beginning pointe
Open to any and all dancers! And yes, it's all FREE!
Sophie Dance, 310 S. LaBrea Ave. Los Angeles, CA

AUDITIONS: Saturday, August 1st from 2-5pm
Open to any and all dancers in Los Angeles
Sophie Dance, 310 S. LaBrea Ave. Los Angeles, CA

PERFORMANCES: Saturday, November 7th at 4 & 8pm
El Portal Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA

Please email us at launbound at gmail dot com if you have
any questions about anything. We hope to see you soon!!

Trampoline Photos & Video

We recently had tons of run shooting trampoline photos with our new favorite photographer, Bella! Check out her portfolio at bellasclassicphoto.com. You can view all of the photos HERE and here's a video we put together of our jumping adventures:

Coming Soon: Trampoline Photos!

Welcome!

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