Rubans Rouges Dance
| Rubans Rouges Dance[1] | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Name | Rubans Rouges Dance[1] |
| Previous names | Noelle Andressen Dance (2001)[2] |
| Year founded | 2008[3] |
| Website | RubansRougesDance.com |
| Senior staff | |
| Executive Director | Kristopher Kale |
| Artistic staff | |
| Artistic Director | Noelle Rose Andressen |
| Other | |
| Associated schools | DanceWarrior® |
Rubans Rouges Dance was created by dancer-choreographer, “esteemed performer, activist, and founder”[4] Noelle Rose Andressen in 2009. The company’s name is French for “Red Ribbons”. Red Ribbons™ is also the title of the company’s flagship dance about Miss Andressen’s child molestation story that launched it initially. [5] The company performs modern dance and contemporary ballet. Its trademark is “multi-media dance drama™” and performs for the audience to “feel the experience™”. [1]
Rubans Rouges Dance uses story lines, particularly real life tales from its Artistic Director’s life, to give messages of hope to audience members. They also expand upon these dances in their repertory in book form authored by Miss Andressen herself. These books are called the Dance Warrior® Series, Red Ribbons™ Shattered Innocence was published on this date: February 21, 2017[6] [7]
Current[edit]
Artistic Director, Noelle Rose Andressen, has served as the company’s leader since its inception. She studied at the Alvin Ailey School in New York and was nominated Performance Artist of the Year 2012.[8]
She is also the lead female dancer in her company who received and EMA Media Award for producing as well as being EMMY (NATAS) nominated as a Music Composer/Singer, Producer and Writer.[9] [10]
Kristopher Kale is the company’s Executive Managing Director who also scores most of the company’s music which makes it a true husband-wife team. They met performing at the Bob Hope McCallum in Palm Desert and he too is an Emmy nominated artist for his music compositions[11]
Their company features dancers and performers from ages 18-80, all races, sexes, forms, religions, identities, disabilities, body types and sizes. The company dances about child abuse, ageism, racism and its effects, violence, cancer, empowering women, equal rights and many other social topics.[12] The ensemble also spends time raising awareness by dancing for charities and helping hands-on. They also dance to share the joy of entertainment and help people. [6] [13]
Company History[edit]
Rubans Rouges Dance existed prior as Noelle Andressen Dance for 8 years[2] It was performed in Beauty from Ashes TV Film on TLNetwork [14] and distributed internationally in 2007. [15] [16]
The very first formal performance on stage for Rubans Rouges Dance™ was in January 2009. “Red Ribbons™” was performed in a studio setting initially in December of 2008 as a 4 minute 1 second dance gift for her ballet instructor. In the winter of 2008, the company was named after Miss Andressen’s child molestation incident where her grandmother did a ritual of attaching a red ribbon with a Catholic patron saint charm to a safety pin and fastened it to her underwear. It was her husband that inspired her to name the company by using the French words: Rubans Rouges which literally translates to red ribbons.[17] A special feature in the Associated Press about the red ribbons story and the molestation story went international in the winter of 2017 [18]
In the fall of 2012 the company created “Awakenings & Beginnings™ Dance Festival”, it premiered in January 2013.[19]
2013 the company traveled and performed nationally in Brooklyn, New York; they presented the piece “Coeur de Verre”.[20]
2016 the festival grew and became “Awakenings & Beginnings International Dance Festival”, [6]
2018 Awakenings & Beginnings International Dance Festival™ celebrated women to honor those who were marching in downtown Los Angeles. The festival's theme was "Truth - All artists had their interpretation. There is no wrong answer only good art" to quote Noelle Andressen the Artistic Director of the festival. Growth was experienced this year again as the festival ran from Jan 6 – 27 with master classes, community programs, dancer development and education, strong women ensemble dance performances.[21]
Awakenings and Beginnings Dance Festival™ History[edit]
Rubans Rouges Dance hosts and Executive Produces an annual dance festival in Los Angeles that is co-produced by Emmy nominated Producers: Noelle Rose Andressen (Kale married name) and her husband Kristopher Kale.[22][23] It began in the Fall of 2012 and has since presented this dance festival traditionally in January starting in 2013. It is host to Established and Emerging Professional Artists and samples the company’s dance works.[24] It is the first dance festival of the year in Los Angeles. The festival features modern and contemporary dance styles along with classical pointe ballet, jazz, cirque, classical tap, lyrical, Butoh, and performance & movement art. [25] It reaches out to the community's under-served youth with mentor-ship programs, educational outreach programs, dance happenings and events, performances, and gives children of all cultures an opportunity to perform in the MOSAIC program.
In 2013 the festival began a matinee and evening program to showcase local artists.[26] The Board of Rubans Rouges Dance also began presenting the “Awakening Award” this year which is presented to top performers and artists in dance. This award was presented to many integral people in the dance industry including Lois Greenfield and Lori Belilove and the Isadora Duncan Dance Company; Ms. Andressen was also a recipient of this award for her leadership which was presented by celebrity guest speakers.[27]
In 2018 on September 15, Awakenings & Beginnings International Dance Festival went to New York City and premiered "Awakenings & Beginnings: The Empowered Woman-NYC Special Edition" in Manhattan at Alvin Ailey's theatre called the Ailey Citigroup Theatre Joan Weill Center for Dance. This presentation showcased female choreographers and social issues such as breast cancer, rape, freedom of expression with works by Rubans Rouges Dance including: "Red Ribbons", Rosewood, Coeur de Verre, and a solo from Lori Belilove & Isadora Duncan Dance Company.[28]
Other Interesting facts about “Awakenings & Beginnings Dance Festival™” is that it has made the #1 pick of LA Weekly and listed in the top 5 several times[29][26] and also by Cultural Weekly in which it had two separate shows in two separate locations for its 5th installment in Hollywood at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater and in Lincoln Heights at Diavolo Performance Space. [30] In January 2018, the festival was also listed as a pick in the LA Times. It was presented at Diavolo Performance Space for the closing night.[31]
Red Ribbons[edit]
“Red Ribbons” is oldest and initial part of the Rubans Rouges Dance repertoire choreographed by Noelle Rose Andressen. The copyright is co-owned by The Board Members of Rubans Rouges Dance, Andressen and Kristopher Kale. The dance is based on Andressen’s dark past about her overcoming the horrors of child molestation and the healing of a fractured psyche. It is referred to as a “dance drama” with dance, film, theater, and live music scored by Emmy nominated composer Kristopher Kale.[32] In 2013 Red Ribbons was expanded and presented uncensored as a 45 minute length dance piece in a concert: “Red Ribbons and Memories”. The piece had a parental warning because the subject matter: child abuse and molestation was very mature and controversial. This dance piece was intended to help many women face the abuse in their past and help inform children how to speak up against abusers.[33]
LA Weekly supported “Red Ribbons™ and Memories” with a mini editorial. The full length version was performed in its entire form for the first time uncensored for this presentation.[34]
In 2016 Red Ribbons™ was performed again uncensored as an expanded 50 minute dance drama that used dance, drama, live music and film. [35] It was also then made into a book titled after the dance "Red Ribbons" that explores the shattering of one's innocence. It depicts the chronological time line of the continual development of "Red Ribbons" and the impact it had on the audience, society, and Rubans Rouges Dance as a company.
In 2017, Miss Andressen’s story about her "Red Ribbons™" and how she turned a bad event into a positive mind-set, was selected by editors as an Editor’s Pick for Y Mag. She shares how her "Red Ribbons" has encouraged other abused women by dancing about it in her choreography. It was also used to communicate to her teacher who had helped her rebuild her body after surviving breast cancer.[36]
December of 2017 Noelle Rose Andressen’s story about her “Red Ribbons™” dance also went viral and gained international attention. Factually, it was featured in over 250 news stations and news media online and print picked up the story and ran it. The media shared how her grandfather raped her when she was a child and the significance of red ribbons and her dance. She shared about finding strength and sharing her story and for women to find their voices. Richard Vogel did a photo shoot downtown Los Angeles with Miss Andressen.[37] The “Red Ribbons™” dance news coverage depicted how and why it was created, it revealed her past abuse and how she overcame it [38]
Repertory[edit]
Wings (2018) Honorary piece for Anna Djanbazian Artistic Director of Djanbazian Dance Company who passed away in 2017. She was a friend and mentor to Miss Andressen.[39]
Industry vs. Artistry (2016) [32]
Cello Concerto (2016) An analogous dance tale about the role a man attempts to place upon the women he has relationships with. The analogy is that the male treats women like instruments to be played to create his music. This is a commentary by Miss Andressen that is influence by her view of past relationships. This piece is an expanded vision from the original 2009 version. [32]
Fight for Love (2015) An intense Orwellian piece about non conformity. Inspiration for this piece was the current political atmosphere at the time and the need to avoid fascism. This dance piece was first presented in St. Monica in a theater that was formerly a church.[40]
Art of Brokennes (2014) The testing of the indomitable spirit that stands alone and finds their true voice. This piece depicts how strong leaders often stand by themselves until they win over the crowd.[41]
Unity (2014) The 5 year anniversary show shares the same name as this dance piece with all original score. It was celebrated in Glendale in an intimate studio. The dance piece reflects upon the unity within the company and the dancer’s movements in harmony. The piece is based on shifting the dancer’s bodies to create shapes. Each shape metamorphoses into the next one.[42]
Storm (2013)[43]
Let This Be My Last Battleground (2013) A dance piece choreographed by Noelle Rose Andressen. It is a modern dance about her breast cancer survival story and how she walked the same road with two other women in a cancer clinic. [43]
Rosewood (2012)[44]
Begotten (2012) Uniting becoming one and the evolution of relationships. This piece was performed in St. Barbara just days after Miss Andressen’s mother passed away. It was a piece dedicated to her passing.[45]
Cygyzy (2012) An intentional re-spelling of sygyzy, this modern dance was performed in Pasadena.[46]
Creation (2012) An exploration about sexual desire, this duet is performed with lifts and throws.[47]
Inner Soul (2012) A solo performance about finding beauty in the struggle. This is based on Miss Andressen’s breast cancer experience in which she felt constrained and depicts inner beauty being born. She uses fabric as a cocoon and slowly pushes her way out of it. [2]
Gethsemane (2012) A piece that studies emotional anguish. It is performed by Miss Andressen as a solo. It premiered in St. Barbara. Gethsemane means threshing floor and in this piece the dance movements give a cultural commentary about the Armenian Genocide and is counter to the need to make decisions based upon history. [47]
Communion (2011) Celebrating community no matter the race; sexual preference; religion; culture; etc.[48]
Coeur de Verre (2010) French for “Heart of Glass” Is a section of “Red Ribbons”. The duet depicts a couple that is at odds with one another trying to find balance. [2] LA Weekly was the first to feature the company’s trademark logo image of what they call the “T Split”. It is their trademark logo image that they infused with the dance choreography. [19]
The Silent Rose (2014) A coming of age dance piece with original score by an Emmy nominated composer. This ensemble piece featured an analogous reflection of a person becoming all they should be and the struggle to reach that. [41]
Red Ribbons™ (2008) Based on Miss Andressen’s true life story and how her grandfather sexually violated her, this dance was the catalyst that started Rubans Rouges Dance™. Due to its controversial subject on sexual molestation and child abuse, the dance was censored but was performed in December 2008. In 2009 it was performed in its entirety uncensored.[49]
Performances[edit]
Rubans Rouges Dance™ has performed in high profile dance festivals and venues globally.
- Lula Washington’s 65th Birthday Celebration (2016) [44]
- SoCal Dance Invitational (2015)[50]
- UNITY 5 Year Anniversary (2014) The company performs some of its well-known dances. This is also the commemorative date in which Noelle Rose Andressen’s mother passed on 2 years prior. It was the first year the “Awakening Award” was presented. [42]
- Tri-Art Festival (2014)[51]
- Secrets and the Silent Rose (2014) #1 pick la weekly put on our website[52]
- Awakenings & Beginnings Dance Festival (2014)[53]
- HIVE (2014)[54]
- Red Ribbons (2013)Listed as #1 Pick LA Weekly[55]
- Adapt Festival (2013)[56]
- Have Dance Festival, Will Travel (2013)[57]
- Signatures (2013)[43][58]
- Affinity: Fest Sprouts (2012)[59]
- Affinity III (2012)[60]
- Affinity I (2012)[61]
- MixMatch (2011)[62]
- Adapt (2011) [48]
Reviews[edit]
Round Up News November 16, 2013[63]
Outreach Programs[edit]
A large amount of the company’s efforts focuses on community outreaches and programs. [64]
Red Ribbons™ outReach™[edit]
Red Ribbons™ outReach™ An Outreach Helping Prevent Child Abuse & Bullying. Also a wellness program for adults recovering from sexual abuse. Red Ribbons™ outReach™ is also an abuse awareness program sponsored by Red Ribbons Dance & Rubans Rouges Dance to empower abuse victims, raise awareness about child abuse: sexual, physical, emotional, psychological and neglect through the power and artistry of dance. Noelle Rose created Red Ribbons outReach™ to help women recover from abuse via dance. She has been publicly speaking about this for years through her company. [13]
Dancers Fighting Cancer™[edit]
Dancers Fighting Cancer™ This program offers inspirational and wellness movement classes that help enrich, heal, and restore all that cancer takes away. These classes have helped those touched by cancer regain their confidence and inner beauty through expressive movement. This Curriculum & Program was designed by the company's Artistic Director, Noelle Rose Andressen who in turn is a breast cancer survivor. The company has helped many non profit organizations raise awareness and funds for cancer research. [40]
ChooseDANCE™[edit]
ChooseDANCE™ has been brought to the community for the past 5 years. It is both an after-school program and weekend workshop for under-served communities and at-risk youth that encourages teens and youth (K-12) to choose dance over drugs, alcohol & other detrimental addictions & behavioral patterns such as bullying, cutting and eating disorders. This program promotes the youth to choose a healthier lifestyles rather than a destructive one. Originally, Noelle Rose Andressen and Shirley Gitlin made this program with input from and in collaboration with early childhood educators and students. [6]
Other community outreaches and programs include performing to raise funds for disasters, volunteer to help locally, provide needs of the community such as food or blankets. [64]
Awards[edit]
Nominated Performance Artist of The Year (2012) for “Coeur de Verre” a section in “Red Ribbons™” [49]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Rubans Rouges Dance". www.rubansrougesdance.com.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Noelle Rose Andressen & Rubans Rouges Dance". rawartists.org.
- ↑ "Rubans Rouges Dance: How Noelle Rose Andressen turned her pain into beauty". godaddy.com/garage. Cate Barker. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ↑ "Professional Women Share Their Thoughts on Workplace Equality Issues". stewartcoopercoon.
- ↑ "In this Friday, Dec.1, 2017 photo dancer Noelle Rose™ Andressen poses for a photo in downtown Los Angeles. Andressen was raped by her grandfather at a young age, and later, as an adult she choreographed a dance called Red Ribbons". MSN.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 "Focus March 2018". issuu.com.
- ↑ Dance Warrior Ribbons Shattered Innocence. Amazon. ASIN 0998360902.CS1 maint: ASIN uses ISBN (link) Search this book on
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- ↑ "The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Pacific Southwest Chapter Emmy 2005 Nominations May 25, 2005" (PDF). National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. NATAS. Retrieved May 25, 2005.
- ↑ "Episode 74 – Noelle Rose Andressen – The healing power of dance". standoutwomen.
- ↑ "UNLV College of Fine Arts Alumni Chapter Newsletter". unlvalumni.org.
- ↑ ""You Are A Warrior and You're Already Victorious": Noelle Rose". huffingtonpost.com.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 {{"NoHo's Rubans Rouges Dance Company". nebula.wsimg.
- ↑ "Beauty from Ashes". imdb.com.
- ↑ "Beauty from Ashes". filminitaliano.com.
- ↑ "Beauty from Ashes". meinkinoguide.com.
- ↑ "Red Ribbons ~ The Story Behind Rubans Rouges Dance Company". rubansrougesdance.com.
- ↑ "Victims of harassment, assault triggered by recent events". apnews.com.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 "5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week Including a New Festival, Awakenings and Beginnings". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ↑ "Program Orson Description". sites.google.com.
- ↑ "Awakenings & Beginnings International Dance Festival". artsandcultureoc.com.
- ↑ "The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Pacific Southwest Chapter Emmy 2005 Nominations May 25 2005" (PDF).
- ↑ "The story of Baby Doe – Noelle Rose Andressen".
- ↑ "Rubans Rouges (Red Ribbons): Awakenings and Beginnings Dance Festival". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
- ↑ "Dance in L.A. Is Alive and Kicking". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 "5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including New Zealand's Royal Ballet". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ↑ "The Empowered Woman "Awakenings & Beginnings NYC Special Edition" Presented by the Board of Rubans Rouges Dance".
- ↑ "Empowered Women, Red Ribbons & Noelle Rose".
- ↑ "3 Dance Shows to See This Week, Including a Dance About Assisted Suicide". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ↑ "JACOB JONAS THE COMPANY TAKES ON BEVERLY HILLS". culturalweekly.com.
- ↑ "The week ahead in L.A. dance, Jan. 14-21: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and more". latimes.com.
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 "RUBANS ROUGES DANCE ANNOUNCES SUMMER SERIES". smmirror.com.
- ↑ "Red Ribbons and Memories Dance Concert". brownpapertickets.com.
- ↑ "Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including the Da Camera Music Society Taking Up Dancing". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ↑ "Red Ribbons - Rubans Rouges Dance Repertoire". performingartslive.com. Mike Napoli. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ↑ ""Noelle Rose Andressen Inspires You To Overcome Tragedy With Triumph"- By Noelle Andressen". ymag.com.au.
- ↑ "Recent sexual assault allegations have trigger effect on victims". thestar.com.
- ↑ "Victims of harassment, assault triggered by recent events". abc-7.com.
- ↑ "Awakenings & Beginnings Dance Festival 2018". performingartslive.com.
- ↑ 40.0 40.1 "NoHo Dance Company Joins in the Fight Against Cancer". nohoartsdistrict.com.
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 "CA: Summer Showcase 2 - Secrets & The Silent Rose". dance-enthusiast.com.
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 "10/18 – Rubans Rouges Dance Company Presents "UNITY"". liveartsla.com.
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 "Volume 119 - Issue 8". issuu.com.
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 "Rubans Rouges Dance – See the gift we gave for Lula Washington's 65th Birthday Celebration". thatbreastcancer.com.
- ↑ "NECTAR: Affinity at Yoga Soup in Santa Barbara". eventful.com.
- ↑ "5 Dance Shows to See this Week, Including Dancing About Air Quality at a Respiratory Hospital". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 "A Review of SonneBlauma's Final Show". independent.com.
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 "Noelle Andressen-Kale: Rubans Rouge Dance Company – Valley Glen, CA U.S.A." sites.google.com.
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 "99 "Limit Breaking" Female Founders Share The Most Significant Lessons Learned from Their Experiences". medium.com.
- ↑ "Self-Defense Disguised as Dance, and Other Dance Shows to See This Week". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ↑ "5 Dance Shows to See This Week: A Dance About a Gay Teenager, Inspired by Text Messages". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
- ↑ "5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including the End of NOW". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
- ↑ "5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ↑ "2014 launched as the HIVE". theopenhive.com.
- ↑ "Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including the Da Camera Music Society Taking Up Dancing". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ↑ "Noelle Andressen-Kale: Rubans Rouges Dance Company – Valley Glen, CA U.S.A". sites.google.com.
- ↑ "Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dancing in the Grand Park Fountain". laweekly.com. Ann Haskins. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ↑ "16 performances scheduled for Fall Dance Concert". theroundupnews.com.
- ↑ "Affinity: SB-ADaPT Fest Sprouts". independent.com.
- ↑ "Affinity III, at Various Locations". independent.com.
- ↑ "Artist and Company Biographies". sites.google.com.
- ↑ "MixMatch Dance Festival moves to Santa Monica, adds second weekend of peformances". nebula.wsimg.com.
- ↑ "Dance show fills theater seats". theroundupnews.com.
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 "Photo Courtesy of All Hands Volunteers". swaay.com.
External links[edit]
- Rubans Rouges Dance website
- Rubans Rouges Dance Channel on Youtube
- Official Awakenings & Beginnings International Dance Festival website
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