Ann Haskins

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Ballet Boyz

Ann Haskins
Launched 14 years ago by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt to provide adventures beyond the classicism emphasized by Britain’s Royal Ballet, BalletBoyz has been something of a shape-shifter ever since. This incarnation boasts 10 men who are less ballet-primed than gym-ripped, which fits just fine with the two works on......
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Batsheva Dance Company

Ann Haskins
Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company once was known in the United States primarily because Martha Graham was a founder, along with the Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild. Today it’s known as the base camp for artistic director Ohad Naharin, who assumed the helm in 1990. Naharin is the choreographer responsible for the......
Batsheva Dance Company; Credit: Photo by Gadi Dagon

5 Dance Shows to See This Week, Including a Troupe That Goes Gaga

Ann Haskins
This week's dance shows include a dancers who practice Gaga, a last chance to see Los Angeles Ballet's Swan Lake and modern dance meets tap. 5. Before gaga was a lady Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company once was known in the United States primarily because Martha Graham was a founder, along with......
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L.A. Dance Project

Ann Haskins
Despite its name and its growing number of staff and dancers based here, the L.A. Dance Project spends most of its time away from L.A., touring Europe and the United States. Fortunately, this collection of riveting dancers returns to its namesake town with a triptych program that includes the reprise......
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Australian Ballet

Ann Haskins
Another choreographer has found parallels in the personal turmoil of England's Prince Charles and Swan Lake's Prince Siegfried. While Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake focused on Charles' relationship with his icy royal mother (and those male swans in feathered knickers), Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake for the Australian Ballet considers the tabloid......
Invertigo Dance Theatre in After It Happened; Credit: Photo by Joe Lambie

5 Dance Shows to See This Week: Dancing With Blue Trash Bags

Ann Haskins
This week's dance shows include an Invertigo dance/theater performance about a community after a disaster, Travis Wall and friends bringing television dance to the stage, and dueling Swan Lakes. 5. Finding out what happened In After It Happened, Invertigo Dance Theatre’s nine dancers, two musicians and a raft of blue......
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Invertigo Dance Theatre

Ann Haskins
Invertigo Dance Theatre has a knack for taking an off-kilter viewpoint, creating insightful, contemporary dance theater tinged with wry humor. In the recent Waiting at Home for the Witches, artistic director/choreographer Laura Karlin took on Macbeth, considering Shakespeare's "Scottish play" from the perspective of the Three Witches' house-husbands. This time,......