Redondo Beach’s Lissa Resnick Dances at an Exhibition
Dancer and choreographer Lissa Resnick in a joyful mood. Photo by Bondo WyszpolskThis weekend is sure to keep Lissa Resnick on her toes. The Redondo Beach-based dancer and choreographer heads up the quintet-sized No Strings Attached Dance Company, and they have performances scheduled for Saturday night at Zask Gallery in Rolling Hills Estates and Sunday afternoon at the Hermosa Beach Art Walk. It’s not just coincidental that Resnick’s company will be dancing in proximity to so much painting and sculpture. “I have always been inspired by visual art,” Resnick says. “I’m more accustomed to working with music, but having performed in galleries around here before – Zask twice, and ArtLife Gallery twice – it came to me that it would be interesting if there was a group of dancers that were ready to go – let’s say a gallery is doing an exhibit on Matisse; I would be able to do the research about the time, the music that was happening during that period, and then we’d come in as a trio or quartet of dancers and become the moving art off the wall. Exhibit specific. Not so abstractly that you can’t understand what it is, but relevant to the time that the art was created.” This is just one of…
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