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Orphean Circus
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ORPHEAN CIRCUS is an ensemble of artists, composers, designers and performers brought together by producing artist/director Ken Roht to create surrealist music/dance theater events. From magically whimsical family entertainment to aggressive German expressionist avant-garde, Orphean Circus continually challenges its audiences with original, thoroughly instinctual sights and sounds.
KEN ROHT is the founding, producing artistic director of Orphean Circus. He is a 2003 recipient of the Audrey Skirball-Kenis $45,000 TIME grant, awarded to only five other theater artists/companies in the country. His original song and dance works have been presented, granted and/or commissioned by the A.S.K. Common Ground Festival, Dept. of Cultural Affairs (Los Angeles) L.A. Cultural Affairs Department, Rockefeller Foundation (through Gale Gates et al), Durfee, Dance Theater Workshop, Flintridge, California Arts Council, KCRW, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock and many L.A. theaters including the REDCAT, Mark Taper Forum (mainstage), South Coast Rep, Los Angeles Theater Center, Cornerstone, Theater@Boston Court and Evidence Room theater, where he is a member and producing director of many of his own surreal song and dance pieces. He has choreographed for En Garde Arts and Gale Gates et al. in New York, Chicago's Lookingglass Theater, Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater, Seattle's On The Boards, Long Beach Opera, Disney's California Adventures and was twice a guest artist at Cal Arts. He was a longtime performer/choreographer with Reza Abdoh's Dar-a-Luz through out L.A., NY and Europe. Ken also works in film, internet, cable, radio and recording projects, seen in several Bill Viola and Paul McCarthy video installations.
As a youth mentor, Ken has taught, directed/choreographed or guest lectured at Cal Arts, Occidental College, Cal State Los Angeles, Heart Project, L.A., Jefferson High (L.A.), Wilson High (Long Beach), Spauford Juvenile Detention Center (Brooklyn, N.Y.), RampArts (youth outreach in L.A.) L.A. Leadership Academy and more.
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