5:15-6:15PM Docent tours at the Guest House

*please note that the Back on the Beach Cafe is closed Monday evenings

6:30PM Talk

We are proud to introduce the new Artist in Residence, choreographer Holly Rothschild, who will be making a new site-specific dance throughout the Beach House facility through May 3rd. She will speak about creating dance in unlikely places, her plans for a new work based on the Beach House site, and her past work in this informal evening. Depending upon attendance, attendees might also participate in some dance making! Please come to hear what is in store and how you can participate...

Holly Rothschild is a dancer, choreographer, musician, and educator. Her collaborative and independent work has been presented at Broad Stage, TED, The Athenaeum in Chicago, the 2006 and 2007 Grammy’s, The Wintergarden in New York City, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and at many Universities, venues and Theaters throughout the US and abroad. In 2008, she directed and choreographed Grey Shanty, a short dance film that was accepted into the 6th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. Rothschild has created many original evening length dance theater pieces, site-specific works, original adaptations of theater works, and has choreographed several plays. Her work has received critical acclaim in Performing Arts Journal. 

Rothschild founded String Theory with designer/composer (and husband) Luke Rothschild and cellist Joseph Harvey. String Theory is a hybrid performance ensemble featuring musicians, dancers and large-scale sonic sculpture. She also is the founder and artistic director of Strange & Elegant Choreography and Performance Installations, a dance performance company that creates site-specific image based dance. As a movement educator, Rothschild spent several years as artist-in-residence in the theatre department at Chicago's Columbia College where she taught movement for actors. She has taught contemporary dance and performance workshops throughout the US to a variety of individuals including those with disabilities, senior citizens at San Francisco’s Theatre Artaud, actors at Chicago's Second City, and contact improvisation at a correctional facility in Alaska.