Email Author Ann Haskins

2007 Stories by Ann Haskins

• Dance 2007: Opening Acts

  published December 27, 2007

  Picking favorite dance performances in a given year feels like Sophie’s Choice, as impossible as choosing among your children. How to... More >>

• Quattro Formaggio

  published December 13, 2007

  Like its namesake Italian pasta and pizza dishes that layer four cheeses into an entity that respects the value of each component but strives... More >>

• Debbie Allen Does Alice

  published December 6, 2007

  Ever since Stephen Sondheim swirled Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and other familiar storybook characters together and sent them... More >>

• SOMA Fest L.A.: Encore

  published November 29, 2007

  This past September brought the first-ever festival in celebration of the movement practices known as SOMA. It was a bigger success than the... More >>

• Mixed Nuts: A Nutcracker Cornucopia

  published November 22, 2007

  That rumble isn’t just your post-Thanksgiving tummy, but the delightfully inexorable march of approaching sugarplum fairies, waltzing... More >>

• Ravish

  published November 15, 2007

  As 19th-century writers, the three youngest Brontë sisters created romantic, passionate stories such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering... More >>

• Hot Ticket

  published November 8, 2007

  Long a thoughtful and probing presence on the local dance scene, Zina Bethune bears credentials that include adventurous excursions into the... More >>

• Realms of the Senses

  published November 1, 2007

  Like the reassuring promise of a baby laughing, the intoxication of falling in love or the smell of the smoldering remains confronting so many... More >>

• Trust Issues

  published October 25, 2007

  A spark-flying exchange about choreography and improvisation between LACDC director Kate Hutter and company member Kevin Williamson provided... More >>

• Morris Does Mozart

  published October 18, 2007

  For his company’s Music Center debut, Mark Morris chose his highly praised Mozart Dances, a lushly lyrical nine-part suite with... More >>

• In Tap Form

  published October 11, 2007

  Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the Nicholas Brothers, Ann Miller, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Eleanor Powell, Gregory Hines. Their... More >>

• Give Dance a Chance

  published October 4, 2007

  Almost all dance fans can recount, usually in delicious detail, a pivotal experience that forever hooked them on live dance performance.... More >>

• British Invasion

  published September 27, 2007

  Definitely not a household name here, but in England Richard Alston has been a major player on the contemporary dance scene for nearly 30 years... More >>

• Moving Targets

  published September 20, 2007

  Launching the Music Center’s fifth dance season with fireworks — well, freeze-frame fireworks — it’s the West Coast... More >>

• Moving Tribute

  published September 13, 2007

  In 1999, not knowing any better, dance fan Howard Ibach decided to organize the first Los Angeles Dance Invitational (LADI) to raise funds for... More >>

• Local Movers

  published September 6, 2007

  Long before magical realism and gymnastic pretzel moves became ubiquitous in dance theater, local choreographer/performer Linda Lack and her... More >>

• Alice in Bollywood

  published August 23, 2007

  Bollywood comes to Hollywood as choreographer Achinta S. McDaniel and her 25-member Blue13 Dance Company offer a contemporary spin on the Lewis... More >>

• Going Hollywood

  published August 16, 2007

  As midsummer temperatures spike, this Santa Barbara–based chamber ballet company promises to kick it up more than just a notch with... More >>

• Slaughter in Westwood

  published August 9, 2007

  A dozen years before he established what became the New York City Ballet, George Balanchine brought classically trained dancers and a jazzy... More >>

• 10 Years of Hysterica

  published August 2, 2007

  In the 10 years since she founded the troupe, Kitty McNamee has built Hysterica Dance Company into a major force on local stages, recruiting a... More >>

• 21st-Century Beowulf

  published July 26, 2007

  The adventurous troupes assembled for the three-week New Original Works (NOW) festival have nothing in common. Nothing, that is, except a... More >>

• Nonstop Flight

  published July 19, 2007

  When she formed this company in 2004, choreographer Paula Present took her ensemble’s name from the Greek word for flight. Ptero (pronounce... More >>

• Back for Moor

  published July 12, 2007

  Long before Congress designated it “America’s national ballet company,” American Ballet Theater established its place in the... More >>

• Summer Sessions

  published July 5, 2007

  The Fourth of July firecrackers may be mere ash, but expect some terpsichorean pyrotechnics in the Cahuenga Pass as summer’s al fresco danc... More >>

• Talent in Bloom

  published June 28, 2007

  The title of this dance series references the ephemeral nature of both blossoming flowers and emerging performers. Each seeks the right kind of... More >>