WANDA GALA is an arts educator and choreographer from the US whose work integrates
somatic methodologies into thecreation and teaching of contemporary dance. While Ms. Gala’s
courses and performance laboratories have a strong base in classical and modern techniques
they synonymously address pedestrian movement through studies in movement impulse and
motivation, spatial awareness, structural anatomy and improvisation.Her multidisciplinary dance
dramas examinethe entropy and distortion of individual and cultural ideals, mythologies and fantasies.
These," post nuclear family tales" (LA Weekly) occur in theatrical, installation, filmicand site-specific contexts.
Individual and collaborative works have been presented in the US and abroad in Poland, Switzerland,
Scotland, and Italy. Most recent showings include the screening of “Okno( Okna, dwzi, sciany)”
at the American Dance Festival and Festival Era Nowy Horyzonty in Wroclaw, Poland.

Besides working with children in public and private schools in the US she has lead workshops
for two years at the Thirteenth and Fourteenth International Contemporary Dance Conferences in
Bytom, Poland. Ms. Gala also has served as an artist in residence (2005-2006) for the Wolf
Trap program through the educational division of the Music Center of Los Angeles. Currently Ms.
Gala is in residence at the Beacon Center for Artsand Leadership. She holds a BFA in Dance from California
Institute of the Arts (2005).

AWARDS
2007 Artists Resource for Completion Grant (ARC), Durfee Foundation
2005 Interdisciplinary Arts Grant, California Institute of the Arts

PRESENTATIONS
July 2007 Okna, drzwi, sciany (dance film)
New Horizons of Dance, 7. International Film Festival Era Nowe Horyzonty
Warszawska Cinema
Wroclaw, Poland

July 2007 OKNO ( dance film)
Dancing For Camera, American Dance Festival
Nasher Musuem of Art, NC

April 2007 Les Biches
Highways Performance Space
Santa Monica, CA

December 2006 Le Puit Noir
Turn the Screws Festival of Love and Noise
Los Angeles, CA

November 2006 Lil'I ( dance installation/street intervention)
CalArts Campaign Launch
REDCAT
Los Angeles, CA

September 2006 SO.LO.ME./ GONENESS (with Bob Bellerue )
Aurora (Warsaw, Poland)
Gallery Entropia ( Wroclaw , Poland)
Oficina di Buenaventura (Castelfranco Veneto, Italy)
Kino (Lausanne, Switzerland)

June 2006 GONENESS
CAR:turally Advanced Realizations: actions, works, situations as formative vehicles for ...
Arden2 Gallery
Costa Mesa, CA

June 2006 Le Puit Noir
Il Corral
Los Angeles, CA

December 2005 GONENESS
Turn the Screws Festival of Love and Noise
Los Angeles, CA

October 2005 Or9an
Barnsdall Art Park
Hollywood, CA

September 2005 GONENESS
Il Corral
Los Angeles, CA

August 2005 IMPORT
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Edinburgh, Scotland

July 2005 Codependence Day Celebration
The Parlour Club
Hollywood, CA

June 2005 Lil’I ( dance installation)
Highways Performance Space Gallery
Anatomy of the Flesh, curated by Patrick Kennelly
Santa Monica, CA

May 2005 Blurp ( street theatre/dance)
Heliotrope Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

May 2005 Lil’I ( dance installation)
REDCAT
Los Angeles, CA

May 2005 El Norte,
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA

May 2005 Lil’I,
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA

December 2004 Ceremony ( street theatre/dance)
Hollywood Blvd., CA

November 2004 2 women, one man
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA

June 2004 hysta--POP-e ( dance installation)
The Smell
Los, Angeles, CA

April 2004 Reflextion ( dance film/animation)
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA

February 2004 Tastes Just Like….
Salvation Theatre
Hollywood, CA

February 2004 Paralymbic
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA

October 2004 Solitude (dance film)
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA

December 2000 Brodeeva (select songs)
Smoky Robinson Christmas Intimate
Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, CA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
July 2007
Ninth International Contemporary Dance Conference
(Bytom, Poland)
improvisation /ages 6-11

July 2006
Eighth International Contemporary Dance Conference
(Bytom, Poland)
contemporary dance /ages 8-15

Dec 2005-April 2006
Wolf Trap Artist (Music Center of Los Angeles)
Sanchez and Excessior Headstart Programs
movement and story-telling/ ages 3-5

Dec 2005- April 2006
Carney Educational Institute
24th St. Elementary School
movement and creative writing /ages 6-10

Jan -May 2005
Community Arts Partnership (CAP)
Teaching assistant to Professor Marvin Tenney at Amelia Earhart and Walt Whitman continuation schools
jazz and social dance /ages 14-19

Jan -May 2004
Community Arts Partnership (CAP)
Teaching assistant to Professor Marvin Tenney at Amelia Earhart and Walt Whitman continuation schools
jazz and social dance/ ages 14-19

Jan-May 2003
The Oakwood School
hip hop/ages 11-13

Sept 2000-April 2001
Dance Dimensions
hip hop/ ages 8-59

Jan- Dec 2000
West Coast Dance Theatre
ballet(group and private lessons) /ages 4-9 and adults

2001-present
Substitute Teacher
various locations

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts 2005, Dance
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, California

Practitioner Training Program, 2006
Feldenkrais Movement Institute
Berkley, California

Ballet- Laurence Blake, Glen Eddy, Cynthia Young, Clare Duncan, Rebecca Newport, Stanley Holden, Paul Maure, Lori LeBlanc, Candy Sherwin, Karyl Noily

Modern- Colin Connor, Lyndon Branaugh, Tina Yuan-Lems, Ruth Barnes, Teri Weikel, Marla Bingham, Anna Halprin (workshop) ,

Composition- Tina Yuan-Lems, Lyndon Branaugh, Colin Connor

Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education- Frank Wildman ,Ivan Jolly

Contact Improvisation- Lyndon Branaugh, Karl Frost

Jazz- Doug Caldwell, Marquerite Derricks, Nancy Paradis, Andre Paradis, Corey Burrell, Norine Xavier, Kelly Devine, Charles Claypow

Hip Hop- Shane Sparks, Marty Kudlek, Dave Scott

Video for Dance- Francesca Penzani

Additional Workshops and Training- Leszek Bzdyl ( composition), Jacek Luminski ( polish contemporary technique), Karine Saporta( composition), Lisa Fricker ( composition), Joe Alter ( contemporary dance) , Steve Koplowitz (site-specific workshop), Anna Halprin (dances in nature workshop), Simone Forti (Logomotion workshop)