Ann Haskins

Start with its snare drum–sounding title, then blend in half a dozen tap dancers, percussionists, musicians and a juggling beatboxer. It’s the recipe for Raditatical. It’s choreographed by Simon Chalban and directed by Ameenah Kaplan, whose credits include Stomp, of which Raditatical is a descendant. The cast includes Bronkar Lee,......

The title, Performance, was taken from photographer Richard Avedon’s remark that everyone performs for each other all the time, sometimes deliberately and sometimes unintentionally. Former Merce Cunningham dancer Rashaun Mitchell is joined by dancers Hiroki Ichinose, Cori Kresge and Silas Riener with Magnetic Fields singer-songwriter Stephin Merrit with a visual......

Despite its wieldy official title: Cup of Java-Gamelan & Dance from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, this opening event of the Aratani World Series blends Javanese music and dance from Indonesia with local gamelan performers. The blending is both figurative and literal since the performers are rehearsing separately in Indonesia and here, but......

In the United States, the mega-rich buy sports franchises or elections. In Russia, they buy ballet companies. At least, that’s what happened in 2007, when Russian fruit tycoon Vladimir Kekhman moved to make the Mikhailovsky Ballet the best that money could buy. With a checkered history dating back to the......

Like the fabled scouts of the America’s Westward expansion, for three decades L.A.’s pre-eminent site specific dance troupe has lured audiences out of their safe local world to become urban adventurers exploring SoCal’s extraordinary cultural and architectural heritage. From Laundromats, historic jails, underground streetcar garages, and the concrete walls of......