REBECCA BRUNO / rebeccabruno@gmail.com
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2023
HIT dance festival, When it Happens screening, curated by Sean Knapp, Los Angeles, CA
Post Facade, When it Happens screening as part of “a series of short films,” curated by Mike Nesbit, Maple Street Construct, Nebraska
2022
DEUX in collaboration with Delaram Pourabdi, The Metro Art: Digital Shorts at 7th St/Metro Center and Hollywood/Highland Stations, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Song of the Cicada, group show curated by Debra Scacco, Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City, CA
2020
When It Happens, Boston Court Pasadena, curated by Jamie Costa, Pasadena, CA
Drive-By-Art (Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing Los Angeles) with Tin Flats, Los Angeles, CA
TEXTURED SOUND, as Objects for Others, Maple St. Construct, curated and organized by: Thomas Prinz, Mike Nesbit, and Ross Miller, Omaha, NE
2019
Organ/isms, The Slow Down Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vessel for the Memory of Compound and Interior Articulation, What a Soul Is curated by Adam Sabolick, Compound, Yucca Valley, CA
rosebird, in collaboration with Lisa Parra, Movement Research at Judson Church, New York, NY
Procession Relic video screening, Performative Computation Symposium curated by Selwa Sweidan, Navel LA, Los Angeles, CA
Interior Articulation (Sowden House), Spring Break Art Show with Tin Flats, Los Angeles, CA
WEFT, DEUX, PASSAGES, The Lloyd Wright Sowden House, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Life Keeping Recipe for a Relic, Archaeology of the Present, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Artist in Residence Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
Vessel for the memory of Tin Flats, Flax at Tin Flats, Endless Song, Los Angeles, CA
Procession Relic, Bootleg Theater, LAX Festival, Los Angeles, CA
A Room Plays Itself as Objects for Others, The Pit Gallery, Glendale, CA
A Configuration Reconstituting Herself, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
The Delicate Infinite Holding Space as Objects for Others, on Solstice at Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Radical Transparency/The Inertia of Time with Yann Novak, Face the Music Dance Festival at Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
A Configuration Reconstituting Herself, FOCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
A Configuration Reconstituting Herself, Sexy Beast at 3.1 Phillip Lim, Los Angeles, CA
A Configuration Reconstituting Itself, Trolley Dances 2017, San Diego, CA
VESSEL, The Neutra Studio and Residence (VDL House), Los Angeles, CA
Distance In/Formation, Lenzer Family Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
4 minutes 4 views / Standing Softly, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Unity Study, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Unfinished, Norton Simon Museum Theater, Pasadena, CA
Forest, REDCAT Theatre's NOW Festival, Los Angeles, CA
we are inseparable there is no time, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ice Study/Water Study, Pitzer College Kallick Gallery, Claremont, CA
Shoreline at the Panorama, Ampersand Salon at the Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, CA
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
A Far Way, Studio III Black Box Theatre and Calit2, San Diego, CA
Numi Ni, Studio III Black Box Theatre and 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
CURATORIAL AND SITE-BASED PERFORMANCE PROJECT
2019
homeLA: PASSAGES at the Sowden House
2018
homeLA: WHERE DO WE MEET?
2017
homeLA//Larchmont: The Way Light Moves Through, homeLA and ENTER>text: One House Twice at the Neutra Studio and Residence
2016
homeLA: Lynn and Cary's in Angelino Heights, Victoria Park, Rose Hill
2015
homeLA: J.B. Merrill House, Claremont, San Marino, Women’s Center for Creative Work, Cudayh
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 AND COLLABORATION
2018
Flora Wiegmann, Reduction Burn at Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Yann Novak, The Future is a Forward Escape into the Past EU Tour, Stockholm, SE, Berlin, DE, Brussels, BE, Amsterdam, NL, London, UK
2016
Flora Wiegmann, Monkey Town, Los Angeles, CA
Flora Wiegmann, Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, WA
2015
Taisha Paggett, WXPT and School for the Movement of the Technicolor People, 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
Eleanor Antin, Helen's Odyssey, San Diego, CA
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
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Lloyd Wright’s Sowden House, possible Black Dahlia murder site, becomes a performance stage, Carolina Miranda, LA Times
2017
Emergency INDEX Volume 6, we are inseparable there is no time, Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, NY
2016
Fire & Ice: "we are inseparable there is no time" at Honor Fraser Gallery, Christina Campodonico, L.A. Dance Journal
Rebecca Bruno's walk around time at the Norton Simon, Debra Levine, arts meme
Performance, Architecture, Los Angeles. Discovering Dance at HomeLA, Christina Campodonico, @ This Stage
2015
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
Biba Bell, ‘homeLA founder Rebecca Bruno in Conversation with Biba Bell,’ Critical Correspondence: Movement Research
2014
Emily Kramer, ‘There’s No Place Like Home: One Collective’s take on Suburban Solace,’
Droste Effect Magazine
2014
Carol Cheh, ‘Q&A with Rebecca Bruno: THE BEGINNING,’ Another Righteous Transfer
2013
‘Terrence Luke John dives into homeLA // Highland Park,’ Another Righteous Transfer
Jean Lenihan, ‘Dancers in the Architecture,’ Fresh Pencil
Susan Josephs, ‘When Dancers Take Over Your House,’ L.A. Weekly
Carol Cheh, ‘homeLA Mount Washington, May 4, 2013,’ Another Righteous Transfer
2007
Brian Schaefer, 'The Possibility of an Island,' My Two Left Feet
Brian Schaefer, 'YouSeeYou,' My Two Left Feet
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2018
Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA
Ponderosa Residency, Lunow-Stolzenhagen, Germany
2017
Reciprocity Asylum Artist Retreat, Simi Valley, CA
2016
WORD Artist Grant, Bruce Geller Memorial Prize
Have Company Residency, Grand Rapids, MI
2015
Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist nominee
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
TEACHING, PANELS, CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2018
Mindfulness and Movement Creative Conversation, Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Sound and Movement workshop with Mak Kern, Norton Simon Family Festival, Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Archeology of the present: Artists Addressing Climate Change, in conversation with Nova Jiang, Debra Scacco, and Megan Steinman, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Awareness and Movement public workshops, Los Angeles, Cleantech Incubator and Santa Monica State Beach
Dance Studies Association Annual Conference, Contra: Dance and Conflict, Valletta, Malta
Lecture Demonstration: we are inseparable there is no time
2016
Master Classes, The Wooden Floor, Santa Ana, CA
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
Therapeutic 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
EDUCATION
2018-21
MA in Counseling Psychology: Pacifica Graduate Institute
2008
BA in Dance: The University of California at San Diego
2005-06
Conservatory Training: The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel