2026
CO/lab: Jan 11 @ 2pm
The culminating performance of a dance-making workshop rooted in the spirit of collaborative movement investigation and co-creation. Directors Rebecca Lemme and Kevin Williamson facilitate an experiment with artists interested in honing both creative and performance skills. Rooted in vocab-building, state-play, partnering, improvisation, and text, the two week laboratory finishes with this public performance.
2 WORKS: blue & ill-equipped
ODYSSEY THEATRE ENSEMBLE - Jan 15-17, 2026 @8pm
Los Angeles dancemaker Kevin Williamson brings blue and ill-equipped to OTE. In blue, Williamson and celebrated pianist Hao Huang meditate on the confines and nuance of despair. In it, Williamson spirals through a mirage of characters marked by interludes of unbearable tasks and luscious dancing and Huang brings Ryuichi Sakomoto’s most haunting compositions to life. In ill-equipped, a trio of seekers (performers Divya Ahuja, Rian Alcid, and Sasha Marlan-Librett) explore insecurities and missteps on the search for true intimacy through a discordant, unruly, and provocative movement world.
WIP 020 – February 2, 2026
Emily Barasch + Kevin Williamson
🕖 7:30 PM PT / 📍 Wende Museum / 🎟️ Free with RSVP
WIP is an artist-led, work-in-progress performance platform co-founded by dance artists Kate Wallich, Stephanie Zaletel, and Belize Wilheim. Launched in 2023, WIP was created to give choreographers and performance makers a “low-tech, high-visibility” space to share evolving works with audiences, fostering curiosity, dialogue, and critical exchange at every stage of development.
KEVIN WILLIAMSON (he/him) centers his choreographic research on queer belonging. A Lester Horton Award recipient, Bates Educators Fellow, and Center Theatre Group Sherwood Finalist, Kevin currently serves as Chair of Dance at Scripps College where he is an Associate Professor. His work has been shared at DanspaceProject, REDCAT, Dixon Place, CounterPulse, LACMA, OUTsider Fest, Breaking Ground, RADfest, Minnesota Fringe, and the Beijing Dance Festival. His choreography for theater/opera includes Washington National Opera, Atlantic Theater Company, the Juilliard School, Geffen Playhouse, Yale Theater, and Opera UCLA; and commissioned works for CSULB, LMU, and AMDA. His 2022 film “Safe and Sound” co-produced with Taso Papadakis was an official selection at avant-garde and queer dance film festivals globally. Kevin was a dancing member of David Roussève REALITY, Oni Dance, LA Contemporary Dance Company, and Robert Moses' Kin. He was a guest for David Gordon’s PickUpPerformance, Angelin Preljocaj and Julie Taymor at the LA Opera, a soloist in Bernstein’s MASS for the LA Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and has danced in works by Ryan Heffington, Cheng-chieh Yu, Victoria Marks, Heidi Duckler, Keith Johnson, and many more. He received his MFA in Choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and is a certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst, yoga instructor and somatic dance educator.
photo: Ken Gonzales-Day