Ann Haskins

After years of drawing audiences to L.A.'s historic jails, abandoned underground streetcar facilities and operating laundromats, Heidi Duckler and her entourage of dancers, actors, writers and musicians have a set of vintage wheels to aid in their travels around SoCal. Dubbed the "Duck Truck," the 1960s Oasis trailer has become......

Choreographer Boris Eifman's fascination with the porosity between reality, imagination and psychosis have made him artistically significant and hugely popular. That's not just in his native Russia, but locally, as demonstrated by his company's six prior Southland visits. Cinematic in style, passionate in both choreography and his choice of subject......

In 1984, two Montreal street performers took their popular combination of performance and acrobatics onto a global stage, and so began Cirque du Soleil's conquest of the world. Two decades later, Cirque du Soleil alums launched a new generation of nouveau circus performers under the title Seven Fingers or Les......

Defying the world of Photoshop, those beautiful, ripped bodies on banners announcing the return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater are the real thing. Alvin Ailey created beautiful dances and nurtured his namesake company, considered among the most popular dance troupes in America if not the world. He also inspired......

In a season filled with wonderful out-of-town companies dropping in for a bit of SoCal spring, only to take the ticket proceeds back to entertain their home audiences, L.A.’s own bring it all home with the second edition of the Los Angeles Dance Festival. Co-sponsored by Diavolo Dance Company and......