The locavore movement comes to dance with the debut of 100% Local Free-Range Dance Series. Laura Karlin and her Invertigo Dance Theatre have rounded up six other respected, locally based contemporary choreographers and their dance troupes for this new performance series. For the next three Sundays, Karlin’s Invertigo Dance Theatre......
Benjamin Millepied's newly minted L.A. Dance Project opens the Music Center's 2012-13 dance season this weekend with a chance to get back on balance after getting off on the wrong foot. After glowing pronouncements about establishing a truly L.A. dance company, founder/artistic director Millepied had to admit that none of......
East West Players ambitiously launches its 47th anniversary season presenting Navarasa Dance Theater's Encounter, a production that is as much dance as theater. After seeing an excerpt last year at the Asian American Theater Conference and Festival, EWP's producing artistic director, Tim Dang, knew he wanted the entire dance theater......
Anyone who missed the sold-out Laguna Dance Festival performances this past April has a second chance to see two of April's headliners this weekend. Alonzo King LINES Ballet and Hubbard Street Dance are usually presented in the enormous culture centers, making an outing in this 420-seat theater a rare opportunity......
As summer wanes, the beach remains Santa Monica's top attraction, but August also draws dance fans to the bay city for the annual MixMatch Dance Festival. For this sixth edition, organizer Amanda Hart of HartPulse Dance hosts two weekends brimming with a representative assortment of L.A.'s spectrum of eclectic dance......
For more than a decade, artistic director Natasha Middleton and her Burbank-based Media City Ballet has drawn from L.A.'s wealth of local and émigré dance talent to nurture a repertoire that emphasized ballet's romantic European roots, classics from the Ballets Russes, and, of course, The Nutcracker. Recently, Media City Ballet......
It's been seven summers since Patrick Makuakane and his San Francisco-based Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu drew standing ovations at Grand Performances, showing not only their traditional hula chops but their handle on bringing the Hawaiian dance form into the modern era with hula mua. Loosely translated as hula......
Reggae, white sandy beaches and rum drinks may be the most immediate images that Jamaica brings to mind, but behind its postcard-perfect setting and made-for-TV soundtrack lies a long, conflicted history as a Spanish, then British, colony before gaining independence in 1962. Choreographer Pat Taylor and her JazzAntiqua Dance and......
As a dancemaker, Harlem-born-and-bred Darrell Grand Moultrie draws on a background that includes training at Julliard, performing in Broadway shows including the recent Billy Elliot, and garnering a coveted Princess Grace choreography award. Earlier this year, his Jazzin' for the Sacramento Ballet was a standout in a new choreography program......
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