He's the Solange-endorsed choreographer re-imagining how we see dance

Since returning to L.A. six years ago, choreographer Chris Emile has cultivated the type of supporters whom traditional dance companies desperately struggle to reach: young, hip, people of color.

The choreographer recently was preparing for his first solo exhibition and series of performances exploring black masculinity at the“Amend” follows the life of one man, from childhood through middle age, with a cast of three dancers. Audiences are guided through the modernist home of the late architect Rudolph Schindler, a space transformed through movement, archival footage, sculpture and sound.

About two years later, another major company, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, shuttered. “I was just seeing the state of affairs of contemporary concert dance and just how it was really failing, and how nobody was really trying to engage the audience,” Emile said.Chris Emile will present an exhibition and performances at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House.Emile co-founded the dance collective No)one. Art House with three other dance-makers in 2014.

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