Ann Haskins

The name Victoria Marks often crops up in L.A. dancers' and choreographers' bios to establish their own bona fides, either touting that they've danced for Marks or studied with her. Before her tenure as a professor in UCLA's World Arts and Culture department, specializing in choreography and performance, Marks was......

So you're sitting and sipping that favorite half-caf soy latte, checking out the most recent edits on your screenplay, when "A Poet, Some Musicians and 4 Dancers Walk Into a Coffeehouse" and start dancing, playing their instruments and talking in rhythms just one step away from singing. Don't be alarmed;......

Despite his impressive credentials as a dancer, choreographer, director and singer - even a Tony nomination - Maurice Hines can't avoid being identified as the brother of the late, higher-profile Gregory Hines. Displaying some deft footwork, Maurice Hines: Tappin' Thru Life embraces that reflected identity, paying tribute to his early......

The legend of the great Greek warrior Ajax inspired the playwright Sophocles and now provides the lens for choreographers John Farmanesh-Bocca, Jones Welsh, and the dancers of Jones' troupe Not Man Apart. The resulting dance drama, Ajax in Iraq, considers historical concepts of heroism with modern military issues of sexual......

In the film Gigi, the octogenarian roué played by septuagenarian roué Maurice Chevalier warbled that he was glad he was not young anymore. While that may have been true for early - 20th century Paris, it's not a song for 21st-century L.A. For this youth-obsessed city, artistic director/choreographer Kate Hutter......