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Virtual Dance: GREENER GRASS (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER Beginning tomorrow, June 24, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s (HSDC) Season 43: A Virtual Homecoming will conclude with the world premiere of Greener Grass, a full-company work choreographed and directed by former HSDC company dancer Jie-Hung Connie Shiau and featuring original music and composition by Jerome Begin and videography and editing by Kevin Michael Briggs. Hubbard Street Dancers Elliot Hammans…
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Dance: THE PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY (The Music Center in L.A. | Abraham’s“ “Only the Lonely” & Taylor’s”Promethean Fire”)
THE MUSIC CENTER WELCOMES BACK PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Los Angeles’s Music Center has a hit on its hands with its DANCE AT DUSK outdoor performance series. First, we had amazing tap dance with a live jazz combo, then American Ballet Theater, and this week is the great Paul Taylor Dance Company. Five in-person performances (June…
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Music | Dance | Theater: CAL PERFORMANCES (2021-22 Season)
SUPERCALILINEUP Talk about coming back with a bang! Berkeley’s Cal Performances has announced its 2021–22 season, and the Bay Area is getting the best line-up I have seen since well before the pandemic shut everything down. The world’s greatest artists in jazz, classical, opera, pop, dance, theater, and more are heading to Berkeley, leaving you…
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Broadway Podcast: WE GOT ANNIE: ANN REINKING (1949–2020) (The Fabulous Invalid)
Broadway’s podcast, The Fabulous Invalid, has released a fabulous episode, a thoroughly entertaining tribute celebrating Broadway and dance legend Ann Reinking in We Got Annie: Ann Reinking (1949 – 2020). Listen for free HERE. Co-hosts Jamie DuMont and Robert Russo continue their season-long theme of their “favorite things” by paying tribute to the singular life and work of Broadway…
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Virtual Dance: GISELLE OF LONELINESS (Ballez at The Joyce)
The Joyce celebrates Pride 2021 with the Joyce debut of the queer, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists of Ballez in Giselle of Loneliness, created by the company’s founder, Katy Pyle. This deconstruction of one of the world’s most famous and oft-performed ballets — and of the construct and constraints of classical ballet as a…
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Virtual Dance: HELGI TOMASSON’S SWAN LAKE (SF Ballet)
San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) is presenting Helgi Tomasson’s Swan Lake from May 20 to June 9, 2021, closing SF Ballet’s 2021 Digital Season. The archival capture from 2016 stars Principal Dancers Yuan Yuan Tan as Odette-Odile and Tiit Helimets as Prince Siegfried. Swan Lake offers standout roles for the corps of 30 swans and Odette-Odile,…
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Dance: CHASING MAGIC (Ayodele Casel world premiere, streaming from The Joyce in NYC)
SHE’S TAPPING OUR TROUBLES AWAY Tap superstar Ayodele Casel returns to The Joyce in NYC for a world premiere digital engagement that explores the joys of everyday life and the art of tap dance. The Joyce will host the one-time-only digital dance event of the spring, Chasing Magic, an evening stacked with collaborators both brand…
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Dance / Music: SOCIAL DISTANCE HALL (Park Avenue Armory)
AT A DISTANCE CLOSE UP Park Avenue Armory launches its Social Distance Hall with a season of new commissions of dance, music, and theater created by artists during and in response to the pandemic. A new event conceived by Bill T. Jones will join other new commissions developed over the past eight months by Steven Hoggett, Christine…
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Dance: IN ANY EVENT (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
If there’s any consolation from the pandemic, it’s that you get to experience the best dance from around the country. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s (HSDC) 43rd season will resume Thursday, March 25, 2021, at 7:30pm CT with a virtual world premiere of In Any Event a new 30-minute piece by former HSDC dancer Penny Saunders….
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Events: THE BEST OF CHICAGO STREAMING FOR FREE (The Harris’s Resident Companies)
Chicago’s Harris Theater is a home venue for more than 20 not-for-profit arts and culture organizations. Now, you don’t have to go to Chicago to see these thrilling events. This rich collective — all available to stream with a free account — brings engaging and exciting programming to you via their Virtual Stage program. Below…
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Dance: MAESTRO DE BARRA (Israel Galván, CAP UCLA Online)
UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Israel Galván in Maestro de Barra on Saturday, March 6 at 7pm PT through CAP UCLA Online. This free performance was commissioned by CAP UCLA and is presented in association with UCSB’s Arts & Lectures and The Joyce Theater. During this past year, Galván has sought…
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Dance: AFTER IT HAPPENED (Invertigo Dance Theatre at The Ford)
THE FORD CONTINUES FREE ONLINE SERIES FROM THE FORD IN L.A. WITH INVERTIGO DANCE THEATRE Thursday, March 11, 2021, 6:30pm PT Set in the aftermath of a natural disaster, Invertigo Dance Theatre’s After It Happened – a story of trauma, hope, and healing — tells the story of a community rebuilding itself and searching for…
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Dance: IN ANY EVENT (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO: SEASON 43 THE WORLD PREMIERE OF “IN ANY EVENT†Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s 43rd season resumes Thursday, March 25, 2021, at 7:30 p.m. with a virtual world premiere of new work by critically acclaimed choreographer and former HSDC dancer Penny Saunders. The piece will also be streamed Saturday, March 27 at…
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Dance: MIXED REPERTORY PROGRAM #3 (San Francisco Ballet)
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET’S MIXED REPERTORY PROGRAM #3 OPENS TONIGHT The world premiere of Danielle Rowe’s roaring ’20s dance film Wooden Dimes, the return of Yuri Possokhov’s fan-favorite Swimmer and Alexei Ratmansky’s powerful Symphony #9 make up Program 03, which starts tonight, March 4, 2021, and runs through March 24. Sign up to stream for $29 on…
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Dance Review: JOFFREY STUDIO SERIES (The Joffrey Ballet)
The world premiere of The Joffrey Ballet’s Boléro, filmed at the Gerald Arpino Black Box Theatre, has been playing since last Friday. Now it has been extended, and I highly recommend a viewing via the Joffrey’s YouTube channel. Boléro is without question the most extraordinary, sensuous, exhilarating virtual event since the COVID-19 shutdown. At the center…
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Dance/Film: DANCE CAMERA WEST DRIVE-IN (The Broad Stage at Santa Monica College Bundy Campus)
DANCE AT THE DRIVE-IN A unique drive-in experience showcasing the very best dance films from around the world is headed to the Santa Monica College Bundy Campus – East Parking Lot. Each film will make its World, United States and/or Los Angeles premiere. The Drive-In programs are a unique selection of top-ranked dance films of…
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Preview: FILMS.DANCE (Jacob Jonas Dance Company with The Soraya, The Wallis, Los Angeles, and The Harris, Chicago)
CONNECTING ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD Here comes Films.Dance, an extremely ambitious and most promising global project from one of the hottest leaders in dance. This stunningly shot series exists at the intersection of music composition, dance choreography, visual arts, fashion, and film. So while the curtain is down, L.A.-based Jacob Jonas The Company is…
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Dance Preview: VENTANAS (Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana)
FOREVER FLAMENCO There are many forms of dance and song that emerged as a celebration of life amidst human suffering, but surely Flamenco thrillingly stands out as an example of such an art form. There are moments in the music that clearly reflect Indian, Islamic and Moorish influence. Some Flamenco music styles (palos) have been…
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Dance Feature: THE SKY WAS DIFFERENT (A film by Jonathan Fredrickson; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago)
REACH FOR THE SKY Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, which began its 23rd season with a virtual new work from Rena Butler’s propulsive, truly lovely 25-minute work A Tale of Two (watch here), now presents Jonathan Fredrickson‘s The Sky Was Different, a premiere 50-minute surrealist film debuting on Thursday, December 3. 2020 on HSDC’s site. Hubbard…
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Dance Feature: TURNING POINTE: THE BALLET DANCER’S ROADMAP TO AUDITIONING SUCCESSFULLY (Theresa Farrell)
MAKING HER POINTE Serious ballet dancers who are ready to get to the next level, here’s your chance to shine. The lovely Theresa Farrell, who as executive director and principal dancer of American Contemporary Ballet I have been observing for ten years, is the embodiment of professionalism, hard work, and glorious belief in ballet. Now, Ballerina…
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