Ann Haskins

The shift key - challenged Ate9 dANCE cOMPANY and its director, Danielle Agami, are known devotees of Gaga. Not Lady Gaga, although her imaginative gyrations certainly qualify as dance, but the innovative movement aethestic of Ohad Naharin, who leads Israel's Batsheva Dance Company, where Agami once danced. Aimed at developing......

Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia has absorbed influences from those two countries into its own distinctive culture, which dates back to its assertions of empire under Genghis Khan in the 1200s. The dance troupe Khukh Tenger's name translates to "Blue Sky" and references the nomadic indigenous people's deep connection......

This week's dance shows include modern dance in Signal Hill and ballet dancers doin' it for each other. 5. Ballet dancers bustin' out Dancers spend enormous amounts of time together - in class, in rehearsal and in performance. They know each other's strengths and weakness, and sometimes can see untapped......

"Living legend" is used so frequently, some elevated version of the phrase seems necessary to capture the full stature of modern-dance giant Paul Taylor. It's been a decade since L.A.'s last visit from Paul Taylor Dance Company, and the troupe arrives celebrating its 60th anniversary with a trio of works......

The Skirball Cultural Center doesn't present much dance, but when it does, the group usually is a modern/contemporary company, usually from New York, usually worth attention, and usually connected with Jewish culture. Choreographer Tere O'Connor and his troupe clearly fill the first three criteria, and the two works being performed,......

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the modern dance company established by Alvin Ailey in 1958 and then nurtured after his death by Ailey's muse Judith Jamison, acquired its third artistic director, Robert Battle, barely three years ago. Battle's impact already was in evidence during last year's visit. The Ailey dancers......