TRIP Dance Theatre
TRIP Dance Theatre strives to create and share with the public innovative, contemporary dance and music performances. TRIP collaborates with the TRIP Music Ensemble to generate multi-media works of the highest artistic integrity and provide opportunities for people of all backgrounds to weave creativity into the fabric of their everyday lives. The dance theatre currently draws together a talented and diverse group of six dancers and one actor. Their training in modern dance and ballet fuses with backgrounds in contemporary movement idioms such as Butoh, German Expressionist, Javanese and African dance, theater and martial arts.
TRIP’s performance history includes over 100 performances in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York. They have performed at venues such as the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Hollywood Bowl, UCLA’s Hammer Museum, the Skirball Center, and Joyce SoHo, in New York.
Executive Artistic Director Monica Favand founded TRIP Dance Theatre in 1996, with a desire to build community through dance, foster artistic collaboration and support the development of her choreography. The company became a non-profit organization in 1997. Composer and guitarist Charlie Campagna joined the company as music director and formed the music ensemble in 1998. Favand and Campagna founded the company’s weekly Sacred Spaces Workshop, community based improvisational dance workshop with live music, in 1999.
