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Dance Review: GRAHAM100–AMERICAN LEGACIES (Martha Graham Dance Company at The Soraya)
A SHOWCASE OF HISTORY, AMERICANISM AND HUMOR And An American Classic, Polished and Gleaming For readers not familiar with the modern dance pioneer Martha Graham, I would sum up her contribution in one word: contractions. No, I’m not referring to pre-birth convulsions; Martha Graham technique, in contrast to ballet, is based on “contraction of the…
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Highly Recommended Dance: TURN IT OUT WITH TILER PECK AND FRIENDS (Tour)
YOU’LL DIG THIS SHOW A BUSHEL AND A PECK The California native and phenom Tiler  Peck is the toast of New York City, a prima ballerina for New York City Ballet, and now a producer and director and choreographer and teacher. Time Spell choreographed by Michelle Dorrance, Jillian Meyers, and Tiler Peck (Luis Luque, Luque Photography)…
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Highly Recommended Dance: BODYTRAFFIC (2023/24 Season Launch at The Wallis in Beverly Hills)
HERE’S L.A. TRAFFIC YOU’LL LOVE: BODYTRAFFIC L.A.’s amazing dance company BODYTRAFFIC returns to The Wallis‘s gorgeous Bram Goldsmith Theater in Beverly Hills this weekend with a two-night engagement of four outstanding works that will prove why this L.A.-based contemporary company has continually taken the dance world by storm, easily surpassing LA Dance Project as our…
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Dance Recommendation: JUNGLE BOOK REIMAGINED (Global Tour at the BroadStage)
THIS BOOK HAS A NEW CHAPTER At the end of October, BroadStage presents it most important offering of the 23-24 season: The United States premiere of Jungle Book reimagined October 26-28, 2023, as part of Akram Khan Dance Company‘s global tour. Jungle Book reimagined presented by BroadStage at The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage 1310 11th St.,…
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Extras | Dance: A COMPLETE GUIDE TO SETTING UP AND PROMOTING A DANCE PERFORMANCE EVENT
People love to go out and watch dance performances. From competitions to social events for everyone, dance events are becoming more popular. However, thoughtful planning of your dance event is the only key to achieving your goals. Nevertheless, organizing the perfect dance event doesn’t need to be difficult. With a solid plan and upfront arrangements,…
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Dance Review: CONGRESS VIII (Legalize Dance in partnership with LA Dance Project)
WHEN DOES AN ARTIST PREVAIL? “Dance is a unifying and sacred act,” a blonde woman in velvet black evening gown and netted 1930s “fascinator” cap bellows to a room of dancegoers. “Congress,” she continues, every word laden with religious gravitas, “exists to protect and hold that act:” She crouches to her knees, contorting her body,…
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Dance Review: ¡AZíšCAR! (CONTRA-TIEMPO, West Coast Premiere at The Ford)
GET UP AND DANCE! I was fifteen, watching the musical Hair, when I last remember getting up out of my seat and dancing with performers at a show. I’ve always found that moment (you know the one I’m referring to, dancers inching closer to you, extending their hands, inviting you to participate) a mortifying one;…
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Dance Review: ESTANCIA WITH DUDAMEL (LA Phil and Grupo Corpo at The Hollywood Bowl)
PAMPAS PASTORAL A glimpse of “disappearing Argentine Gaucho culture” at the Bowl The Ballet Estancia is one of two musical suites by Spanish composer Alberto Ginastera. Originally intended for a 1942 Latin America tour, the ballet is a love story between an Argentinian city boy and a rancher’s daughter, demarcated by time of day over…
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Dance Review: FRIDA (Dutch National Ballet)
FRIDA PEOPLE We live in the age of Frida Kahlo iconography. Distilled to the mere visual suggestion of a unibrow, braided updo, and flower headpiece, her image graces wall murals, tote bags, socks, umbrellas, T-shirts, and all manner of decorative objects the world over. Known during her lifetime primarily as the wife of Mexican muralist…
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Dance Preview: BALLETS WITH A TWIST (Fall 2023 Touring Season Announcement)
Ballets with a Twist Announces its Fall 2023 Touring Season Ballets with a Twist performs Cocktail Hour: The Show New York City-based Ballets with a Twist is excited to announce its fall touring season to Arkansas, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. Tour Details September 23, 2023: ACANSA Arts Festival of the South, Little Rock, AR October 28,…
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Dance Recommendation: BIG FIVE OH! (Pilobolus’s 50th Anniversary Tour, The Joyce Theatre in New York)
How lucky is New York? Pilobolus, the groundbreaking, legendary, international dance sensation, is celebrating a half century of radical creativity and boundary pushing. This is one of America’s greatest dance companies, and must be seen for their strength, fluidity and awesome choreography. The extended three-week engagement, featuring three New York premieres, will play The Joyce Theater…
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Dance Review and Commentary: GISELLE (United Ukrainian Ballet, West Coast Premiere)
PETIPA AND POLITICS In college I took one of those life-changing, niche courses that liberal arts schools like to put on their brochures, called Dancing the State: Dance and the Political. In it, we watched Ballet Folklórico de México and dissected how its aesthetics were used in the construction of the Mexican statehood project. We…
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Dance Preview: GISELLE (The United Ukrainian Ballet at Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa)
DANCING THROUGH WAR Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center, which has presented world premieres by Alexei Ratmansky for more than a decade — including American Ballet Theatre’s Of Love and Rage (2022), Whipped Cream (2017), The Sleeping Beauty (2015), and Firebird (2012) — once again proves itself as one of the country’s most exciting dance centers by presenting Ratmansky’s all-new full-length production of Giselle, appearing June…
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Dance Review: MEMORYHOUSE (Melissa Barak in collaboration with Los Angeles Ballet at The Broad Stage)
RESTRAINT Oh, restraint, that most pesky of virtues. We all begin our journeys with dance in the same way: with wild abandon, the freedom of children running in tutus or imitating bars of pop songs, or holding hands with our elders in a circle, stepping in a grapevine left or right. We know not restraint,…
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Dance Review: WOKE & LOVE ROCKS (Complexions Contemporary Ballet at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
CORTISOL ROCKSTARS I am an irreverent narrator when it comes to reviewing dance, because I delight in the mischief of disrespecting the convention of separating creation from creator. A work most interests me as either a universe in itself (for the transcendent), or, for everything else, as an expression of a human psyche – its…
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Dance Review: CONCERTO BAROCCO: A BALANCHINE BALLET (American Contemporary Ballet)
BALLET IS WOMAN What is the true nature of beauty? Do objects we find beautiful contain beauty, or, as Plato theorized, do they merely reflect its true heavenly form? These are the questions posed by American Contemporary Ballet’s evening, Concerto Barocco: A Balanchine Ballet. And when I say these are the questions posed, I am…
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Dance Review: DEEP RIVER (Alonzo King LINES Ballet)
THIN LOVE We go to the ballet for bodies. Don’t we? If the dance audience at The Wallis in Beverly Hills, where I saw Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Deep River yesterday (there is one more performance tonight, June 10), were presented with a version of the AMC Theater’s Nicole Kidman promotional trailer, what would she…
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Dance: 2023 BESSIE AWARDS (Nominees Announced; Ceremony on June 4 at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park)
The New York Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, today announced the nominees for the 2023 Bessie Awards. This year’s Bessie Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, August 4, at 7:30pm, at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer…
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Dance Review: GISELLE (San Francisco Ballet)
DANCES OF THE DEAD BROUGHT TO STUNNING LIFE Both classic ballet and romantic fantasy, Adolphe Adam’s 1841 masterwork is for a rightly renewed reason a worthy offering by the SF Ballet. Playing the gorgeous War Memorial Opera House through Nov. 5 only, this two-hour treasure, revisioned in 1999 by former artistic director Helgi Tomasson, leaps…
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DANCE REVIEW: BYOULNORRI (DaEun Jung; 2023 Dance at the Odyssey)
PLAYFUL SINGULARITY DaEun Jung‘s Byoulnorri closes Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s dance festival, 2023 Dance at the Odyssey, with playful austerity. The hour-long concert is performed in two parts, Byoul (별): “star,” a solo performance by the Choreographer herself, and Norri (놀씴): “play’, a four men ensemble work. DaEun Jung, a trained performer of Korean traditional dance,…
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