Ann Haskins

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We Love You, Music Center!

Ann Haskins
While emigre snow bunnies may bemoan the absence of a white Christmas, Laura Karlin's Invertigo Dance (pictured) celebrates SoCal's invariably warm sunny winter with Christmas light-bedecked dancers, one of five L.A. dance companies in the spotlight at this year's Music Center Holiday Celebration. Adriana Gainey's Pacifico Dance Company contributes Mexican......
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Life After Lewitsky

Ann Haskins
Considered L.A.'s patron saint of dance, legendary choreographer and teacher Lester Horton launched dancers like Alvin Ailey and Bella Lewitzky, who went on to lead their own companies as choreographers and teachers. While Ailey decamped for New York, Lewitzky remained in L.A. The local dance landscape is populated with former......
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The Dance Floor Is on Fire!

Ann Haskins
Passion and percussion take the stage for the final 2012 edition of Forever Flamenco! The intimate, long-running, roughly once-a-month flamenco series showcases local flamenco dancers as well as guests from semi-foreign locales like San Francisco, and definitely foreign locales like Spain. The success of the Fountain Theater's theatrical offerings caused......
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Who's Your Nutcracker?

Ann Haskins
The most polished and professional of this season's productions of the Nutcracker is also the first out of the gate as the Los Angeles Ballet offers its Nutcracker at the first of five venues throughout metropolitan L.A. The sell-out success of last spring’s Swan Lake at new venues in Northridge......
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Outta Site

Ann Haskins
As much conjurer as choreographer, Trey McIntyre first mesmerized the dance world with his dramatic and seductive productions, then established his own eponymous company, eschewing the big cities for the unlikely locale of Boise, Idaho, from where his chamber troupe has toured the United States, and most recently attracted funding......