What we’re about
A group of Cia. Lake Angela, with activities in Barcelona and worldwide.
Cia. Lake Angela is a multimedia performance group with tributaries in poetry, dance, and translation. We choreograph and effect intersemiotic translations of poetry into nonverbal languages by moving among meaningful linguistic ambiguities. Our foremost concern is transforming. Although we are now located in Olathe, Kansas, we perform frequently in Barcelona and Orange County, California. We continue to choreograph and perform in public spaces wherever possible. Our recent work includes “Esokapi Mystika: for Mama Prayerwalker,” a dance film made in Barcelona; performances of “Onde ela viva? Onde ela mora?”, a capoeira-dance performed in Artesia and performed and filmed in Huntington Beach, California; and a collaboration intended to contribute to explicating positive meanings of the term “femininity” through dance in Cypress, California. Our first major dance language performance premiered in Richardson, Texas at University Theatre in 2015 as a feature-length translation of the poetry of Georg Trakl into dance.
Lake Angela is a poet, choreographer, and dancer from Lake Erie who constantly studies and develops her methods of dance as language. She currently works with psychiatric patients on discovering the transformative properties of dance as a therapeutic and accessible nonverbal language. Lake Angela studied choreography, modern dance, and ballet with Michele Hanlon and flamenco and rumba flamenca with Antonio and Delilah Arrebola in Dallas. In Barcelona, she continued her professional training in contemporary, release, improv, ballet, kung fu, and capoeira with Tragant Dansa, ESDM, Company & Company, Dao Kwon, and Capoeira Matumbé. In California, she trained with the Anaheim Ballet and choreographed and performed for Maha and Company of Long Beach. She taught for five years at the University of Texas at Dallas and later taught classes in composition and creation in Barcelona, where she is a member of the Association of Dance Professionals of Catalunya (APDC). She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas for her intersemiotic translations of German Expressionist poetry into movement and has her MFA in poetry. Her first full-length poetry collection, Organblooms, will be published by FutureCycle Press in 2020. Lake Angela’s special interests involve the poetry and dance of medieval women mystics, the possibilities in and kinds of darknesses and silences, and expressions of colors, waters, and suffering, which she often explores in her poems and choreography.
