Artist Statement
Education
2008
BA in Dance: The University of California at San Diego
Grans and Awards
2015
Annenberg Community Beach House Choreographer in Residence Grant
CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) in Southern California with Gerard and Kelly
2014
Prix Marcel Duchamp (associate choreographer for Julien Prévieux)
2008
Kendall Laurel Lui Dance Award, San Diego, CA
Sushi New Wave Grant, San Diego, CA
2005
Stewart Prize in Choreography, San Diego, CA
Selected Works
2015
Fixtures, Annenberg Community Beach House, Los Angeles, CA
A building a body, fadeinfadeout curated by Jimena Sarno, Los Angeles, CA
WAIL, Live Arts Los Angeles, CHIME in Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
a b y s s, Elephant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Water Study, homeLA // San Marino, Los Angeles, CA
2014
The Beginning, PAM Residencies, Los Angeles, CA
What Shall We Do Next, associate choreographer, FahrenheitFLAX, Los Angeles, CA
crave, Studio Program, REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
a staged remembrance for unknown glory, Machine Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Studio Visit: a practice in performing THE BEGINNING, Live Arts LA, Los Angeles, CA
Pass Through, homeLA // El Sereno, Los Angeles, CA
Daniel, Eden’s Expressway, Movement Research, New York, NY
2012
Ghost Mother, Pieter PASD, Los Angeles, CA
2011
beetle, Space4Art, San Diego, CA
AUTOBODY, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2009
Violin + Janos Negyesy, UCSD Department of Music, San Diego, CA
Katie and Me, House Party/Performance II, San Diego, CA
Woyzeck, directed by Gábor Tompa, Potiker Theatre, San Diego, CA
2008
if you forget my name, Bottle Night presented by BOUND dance, La Mesa, CA
Under First Impression and so on, Blue Foot Lounge, San Diego, CA
Sitting, Silent, Waiting, Blind, Emerge Festival V, San Diego, CA
Pears of a Kind, Sushi New Wave Showcase, San Diego, CA
Flock, Potiker Theatre, San Diego, CA
2007
YouSeeYou, Studio III Black Box Theatre, San Diego, CA
The Possibility of an Island: Multi-Media performance project, Calit2, San Diego, CA
2006
Our Net, The LAB, Jerusalem, Israel
thought i might stay, The LAB, Jerusalem, Israel2005
2005
LiminalX, Mandell Weiss Theatre, San Diego, CA
Curation and Site-Based Performance Project
2015
homeLA: J.B. Merrill House, Claremont, San Marino, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Marco’s,
Cudayh, Brooklyn.
2014
homeLA: Downtown, The Brewery, El Sereno.
2013
homeLA: Mount Washington, Pacific Palisades, Highland Park.
2009
House Party/Performance II, private home, San Diego, CA.
2008
House Party/Performance I, private home in San Diego, CA
Selected Performance
2015
Taisha Paggett, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Taisha Paggett, Clockshop, Los Angeles, CA
Julien Prévieux, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2014
Pablo Bronstein, Le Mouvement: Performing the City, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Flora Wiegmann, c. nichols project, Los Angeles, CA.
Christine Suarez, Squaring the Circle by Craftswomanhouse and Hinterculture, Llano, CA.
Pablo Bronstein, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Yael Davids, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2013
Taisha Paggett, DanspaceProject at St. Mark’s Church, NYC.
James Kidd, Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City, CA.
2012
Melanie Rios Glaser, N.O.W Festival, REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.
2011
Erin Beneze, Pieter PASD, Los Angeles, CA.
2010
Jillian Stein, Pieter PASD, Los Angeles, CA.
Rebecca Pappas, Pieter PASD, Los Angeles, CA.
Rebecca Salzer, Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA.
2009
Yolande Snaith IMAGOmoves, Sushi.
2008
Yolande Snaith IMAGOmoves, Diavalo Space, Los Angeles, CA.
Monica Bill Barnes, Trolley Dances, San Diego, CA.
Allyson Green, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego, CA.
2005
Jean Isaacs, Potiker Theatre, San Diego, CA
Publication
2015
Rebecca Bruno’s “Fixtures” – A Movable Dance, Lara Altunian and Jonathan Shifflett, ampersand
She Rolls with the Waves, Christina Campodonico, The Argonaut
Rebecca Bruno a building a body, Bye Bye Broadway, David L. Bell, Notes on Looking
Rain Dance, Andrew Berardini, Artforum
homeLA founder Rebecca Bruno in Conversation with Biba Bell, Critical
Correspondence: Movement Research.
2014
There’s No Place Like Home: One Collective’s take on Suburban Solace, Emily Kramer, Droste Effect Magazine
Q&A with Rebecca Bruno: THE BEGINNING, Carol Cheh, Another Righteous Transfer
2013
Terrence Luke John dives into homeLA // Highland Park, Carol Cheh, Another Righteous Transfer.
Dancers in the Architecture, Jean Lenihan, Fresh Pencil.
When Dancers Take Over Your House, Susan Josephs, L.A. Weekly.
homeLA Mount Washington, May 4, 2013, Carol Cheh, Another Righteous Transfer
Teaching
2013
U N W I N D: movement workshop, Live Arts LA, Los Angeles, CA.
2009-2011
Moving Being: contemporary dance and somatic practices, Pieter PASD, Los Angeles, CA.
2008-2009
Movement Instructor and Choreographer, Pacific Children’s Theatre, San Diego, CA.
2008
Professional Teaching Artist in Residency, San Diego Unified School District, CA
Training and Certification
2010
Certificate in Cranial Sacral Unwinding, Life Energy Institute, Topanga, CA.
2009
Massage Certification, The Institute for Psycho-Structural Balancing, Culver City, CA.
2008
MELT Summer Intensive, Movement Research, New York, NY.
2005
Year of Training: The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel