Ann Haskins

With their 2007 collaboration engagingly titled Pinky Swear, choreographers Kate Hutter andQ Kevin Williamson served notice that they and the Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company deserved attention for an ironic sense of humor as well as for their dance-making. Over the intervening years, the company and the choreographers have continued......

Over the past 20 years, L.A.-based JazzAntiqua Dance Ensemble, led by choreographer Pat Taylor, has built its reputation and won awards for a distinctive combination of Afro-CubanÐinfused modern dance and a commitment to performing to live music, mostly jazz, whenever possible. Focused on dance rooted in and inspired by the......

With Tchaikovsky's haunting, luminous music, Swan Lake is arguably the world's best known ballet. It is also one that choreographers (and filmmakers) just can't keep their mitts off. Although most reinterpretations respectfully leave intact Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov's 1895 choreography for the White Swan in Act II and the......

Choreographer Cid Pearlman had established her credentials on the competitive San Francisco dance scene before she relocated to L.A. in 1999 and made her mark locally with her modern dance troupe Nesting Dolls and with collaborative endeavors such as the still-running monthly salon "Max 10." Several years ago, she left......

Choreographer Heidi Duckler long ago cemented her bona fides as L.A.'s mistress of site-specific dance theater, guiding audiences to a deeper understanding of this city's geographic infrastructure, from Laundromats and the underground Red Car lines to historic jails and the concrete walls of the L.A. River. Lately, Duckler and the......

There won't be a tutu or tiara in sight as Los Angeles Ballet lets its hair down (literally) and unleashes its season finale NextWaveL.A. As with prior editions, LAB artistic directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary have drawn four choreographers from two sides of L.A.'s dance world to create brand......

Known for his sensuous and theatrical dance works, choreographer Robert Moses admits that telling (and no doubt retelling and retelling) fairy tales and fables to his children fueled Fable & Faith and The Cinderella Principle — two critically praised works to be performed by Robert Moses' Kin Dance Company. Fable......

Possibly the most European ballet company based in the U.S., New York's Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has etched a niche with an ensemble of strong, physical dancers who can move from pointe shoes to writhing on the floor in the same breath and a repertoire emphasizing new works from mostly......

In a season rife with wonderful, out-of town companies dropping in for a bit of SoCal weather and taking the ticket proceeds back to wherever, L.A.'s own bring it home with the launch of the Los Angeles Dance Festival. Co-sponsored by Diavolo Dance Company's Jacques Heim and Brockus Dance Project's......