2019 · Dance – stage work
Alice in Californiland
Arthur Pita · AXIS Dance Company
A dance-theater work for AXIS Dance Company that sets Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland against the Bay Area's homelessness and addiction crisis. Alice appears in two versions, her real circumstances and a drug-induced dream, alongside characters from Carroll's story.
- Premiere
- 2019-10-25
- Venue
- Z Space (AXIS Dance Company 2019 home season, In·ter·twine, co-presented by Z Space)
- Where
- San Francisco, CA
- Performances
- Z Space run Oct 25–27, 2019. Online screening with Q&A hosted by AXIS on Dec 5, 2020 (per AXIS e-mail).
- Credits
- Direction/choreography: Arthur Pita. Sound design/music: Ben Juodvalkis (arthurpita.com credit; the score also used existing recordings such as Ravel's La Valse). Set/costume design: Yann Seabra. Lighting design: Allen Willner. Production manager: Wally Holden. Dancers included Yuko Monden Juma and Lani Dickinson (Alice). AXIS Artistic Director: Marc Brew; Executive Director: Robin Anderson. Shared bill with works by Jennifer Archibald and Robert Dekkers.
Press
“I'm working with a sound designer and we've broken up the track to take the audience into the world.”
“After experiencing the mixed discipline work, I can say that Californiland is a poetic, profound, moving piece of Dance Theater.”
Elsewhere
- Alice in Californiland — Arthur Pita (choreographer's site), 2019
- Interview: Arthur Pita on choreographing "Alice in Californiland" for AXIS Dance Company — DanceTabs, 2019-10-23
- AXIS Dance Company – In•ter•twine, works by Arthur Pita, Jennifer Archibald & Robert Dekkers – San Francisco — DanceTabs, 2019-10-27
- Arthur Pita's 'Alice in Californiland' looks at homeless crisis through dance — San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, 2019-10
- In Conversation with Arthur Pita: Alice in Californiland — YouTube, 2019
- World Premiere Of Arthur Pita's Alice In Californiland Headlines AXIS Dance Company's 2019 Home Season — BroadwayWorld San Francisco, 2019-07-16
- in·ter·twine (AXIS Dance Company 2019 Home Season) — Z Space, 2019-10
More with AXIS Dance Company
- To Go Again 2015