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Highly Recommended Dance: INFERNO, BURLESQUE & THE RITE (American Contemporary Ballet)
ACB OPENS 13th SEASON WITH A GRAND SLAB, TRIPLE-SLAY For the first time, American Contemporary Ballet opens its 13th season in Los Angeles with three provocative, eerie creations on alternating nights throughout October, offering a Halloween experience unlike any other in the city. Compelling, surprising and unmissable, the performances’ casts vary every night, ensuring no…
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Dance Review: NASHVILLE DANCE FESTIVAL (Nashville Ballet at the Fisher Center of Performing Arts)
MULLIKIN TO DEUX, AND MORE TO BE DONE No matter the overwhelming amount of hustling singer-songwriters, and evolving identity of what qualifies for country music, there are artistic corners of Nashville deserving attention and support; Nashville Ballet is among the most worthy of these. After 25 years developing under the reliably captivating visions of Artistic…
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Dance Review: re:CREATION (Pilobolus at the Joyce Theatre)
PILOBOLUS IS re:INVIGORATING In 1971, at Dartmouth College, three non-dance students were asked by their composition teacher to create a dance piece. The students were Jonathan Wolken, Steve Johnson, and Moses Pendleton and they did not shy away from the project; they created a piece called Pilobolus, the name of a mushroom only ¼ inch…
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Highly Recommended Dance: SMUIN CONTEMPORARY BALLET (The Joyce in NYC)
SMUIN IS A SHOO-IN Celebrating its 30th anniversary, San Francisco-based Smuin Contemporary Ballet returns to The Joyce with a triple bill of original commissions each making their New York premiere through Sunday. The engagement will be the Company’s ninth at the Joyce and first since 2012. The program will include the New York premiere of Val Caniparoli’s…
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Dance Review: ANNA KARENINA (Joffrey Ballet at the Dorothy Chandler in L.A.)
Like so many other little girls growing up in Los Angeles in the 1950s, my mother enrolled me in ballet lessons hoping her dream of me becoming a prima ballerina would be achieved. Of course, that was never going to happen, but it did teach me the difference between my right and left foot when…
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Dance Review: EXTREME TAYLOR (Paul Taylor Dance Company at The Joyce Theater)
EXTREME VALUE Paul Taylor Dance Company returns to the Joyce Theater with Extreme Taylor, bringing back some of the Maestro’s classic works. The program I saw included Private Domain (1969), Duet (1964), Big Bertha (1970), and Airs (1978), four among his most acclaimed works. Private Domain opens the show and sets Taylor’s clever vision of light and dark. The music, “Atrees” by Iannis Xenakis, fits the straightforward movements…
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Opera Review: IPSA DIXIT (Long Beach Opera and Martha Graham Dance Company)
WHISTLING DIXIT Last week, Long Beach Opera concluded the west coast premiere of its new production of Kate Soper’s 2016 lecture with musical notes, Ipsa Dixit, self-described in the program as “an artistic revelation,” “profound,” “bold,” and “mesmerizing.” Smart critics lavished praise on previous productions of it. It got nominated for a Pulitzer. Therefore, it…
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Highly Recommended Dance: ANNA KARENINA (Joffrey Ballet at the Dorothy Chandler in L.A.)
LEO TOLSTOY TURNED TO LEAPS AND TWIRLS IN THIS NARRATIVE BALLET MILESTONE FROM JOFFREY BALLET, COMING TO L.A. JUNE 21–23, 2024 With a brand new score created by 39-year-old wunderkind Ukrainian-born composer Ilya Demutsky, who replenishes the rhapsodic romanticism of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, and genius choreographer Yuri Possokhov, who finds new depths in dance, Anna…
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Highly Recommended Concerts: CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON (2024/25 Season at Various Locations)
Celebrity Series of Boston announces its 2024/25 season today, marking 86 years of bringing world-class touring and local performing artists to Boston. This season’s offerings bring audiences new venues to explore, artist debuts, beloved returning artists, two special festivals celebrating jazz and contemporary music, concerts and events in Boston neighborhoods, and more. Check out the Digital Brochure!…
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Dance Recommendation: NAVY BLUE (Oona Doherty, The Joyce)
BELFAST-BASED RISING STAR MAKES JOYCE DEBUT WITH NAVY BLUE JUNE 4 – 9, 2024 Oona Doherty (photo Luca Truffarelli) The Joyce is hosting one of the most promising and vital voices in contemporary choreography, Oona Doherty, who makes her Joyce debut with the New York premiere of the evening-length work Navy Blue. This urgent appeal…
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Dance Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (North American Tour at New York City Center)
A SHOW THAT SENDS OUT AN S.O.S. Director-choreographer  Kate Prince, founder of London-based hip hop dance troupe  ZooNation, created a story about survival, hope, and love. Inspired by  Sting’s hits,  Message in a Bottle premiered on London’s West End in February 2020 and revived a year later before being interrupted by COVID. Produced by Sadler’s Wells  and  Universal Music UK, it…
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Dance Review: WOOLF WORKS (American Ballet Theatre – North American Premiere)
WOOF! WOOLF WORKS WORKS! Virginia Woolf’s novels have had a profound impact on literature, inspiring adaptations in ballet and opera. These adaptations face the unique challenge of capturing the innovative narrative structures and exploration of inner lives that are central to Woolf’s work. Wayne McGregor‘s Woolf Works, originally choreographed for the Royal Ballet but now…
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Dance Review: NEXT@90 CURTAIN CALL (SF Ballet)
San Francisco Ballet kicked off their 2024 season, the first curated by Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, with Next@90 Curtain Call, a look back at performances from last year’s Next@90 Festival. Jennifer Stahl and Luke Ingham in Gateway to the Sun We open on a slice of windswept desert. A lone poet (Isaac Hernández) is standing…
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Dance Review: DONGPO: LIFE IN POEMS (International Tour)
A LIFE IN DANCE Dongpo (Su Shi’s art name) is a beloved and revered Chinese poet, writer, politician, calligrapher, and painter who was born during the Song dynasty, in the year 1,037. His life and art have inspired great minds; among them is an artist of broad talents, Shen Wei, the award-winning Chinese-American director, choreographer,…
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Dance Review: COPPÉL-I.A. (Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo)
AN UPDATE COPPÉLIA ABOUT A.I. IS ALL INTELLIGENCE AND NO ARTIFICE Coppélia — a comic ballet from 1870 with music by Léo Delibes and libretto by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter — is produced quite often, either in a classical vein a la Giselle, or with updates to make the story relevant to a particular era. Opening tonight…
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Highly Recommended Dance: COMPAÑÍA NACIONAL DE DANZA, SPAIN (Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA)
COMPAÑÍA DE SUEÑOS The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA is hosting Compañía Nacional de Danza in their Luckman debut, the last stop in the U.S. as part of an International Tour. The Madrid-based “Spanish National Dance Company” will perform a mixed repertory program featuring varied and representative styles, recognizable inside and outside…
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Recommended Dance: ACB JAZZ (American Contemporary Ballet at Bank of America Plaza)
Speak easy. Dance hard. Music from deep down. The best jazz musicians in L.A. live, a comedian or two, sixteen dancers, and the kind of dangerous, incendiary entertainment you didn’t think was around anymore. At the hottest underground club in the city, audiences may be mesmerized, but they won’t sit still. When you’re tired of…
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Music Recommendation: ENSEMBLE CONNECT (Carnegie Hall)
Ensemble Connect is made up of extraordinary young professional classical musicians residing in the US who take part in a two-year fellowship program created in 2007 by Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. The program prepares fellows for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership by…
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Dance Review: COMMON GROUND(S) / THE RITE OF SPRING (Pina Bausch International Tour at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
RITE ON! As part of an international tour, the weekend-long dance program that opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Thursday — an extra-added night due to ticket demand — gave us a taste of the neo-expressionist work of trailblazer Pina Bausch, whose company The Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch made its American debut here in…
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Dance-Theater Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (North American Tour)
A SHOW THAT SENDS OUT AN S.O.S. Set to 28 songs of pop icon Sting, newly arranged and recorded with Beverley Knight and Lynval Golding (of The Specials), Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Kate Prince (So You Think You Can Dance, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) and her Zoo Nation company have a story to tell about the refugee…
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