Sara Wolf

With nearly a dozen regional productions scheduled, you could fill up the rest of December going to see that favorite holiday warhorse The Nutcracker, but my recommendation is to save some energy for Lula Washington Dance Theater’s fourth annual Gospel Kwanzaa Celebration on December 30. It may be sacrilegious in......

Three very different upcoming performances point to the elasticity of American concert dance. Alternately ambitious, intimate, autobiographical and, above all, innovative, each demonstrates an art that continues to re-imagine itself. PAST Forward: The Influence of the Post-Moderns, the most recent venture by Mikhail Baryshnikov’s ad hoc touring company White Oak......

Photo by Lee Hemingway Water — pulsating, swirling, insistent, loud and mysterious — enveloped Hae Kyung Lee’s dance ensemble during Ancient Mariners, the group’s mid-September performance at California Plaza’s Watercourt. The fountain has been used to great advantage by local choreographers, but none in recent memory has been as spectacular......

There‘s a story I heard once about Lester Horton, the granddaddy of Los Angeles modern dance. One day, tired and cranky, he came into a rehearsal, brought all of his dancers onto the stage and commanded them: ”One, two, three, KVETCH!“ Taking Horton’s cue, I‘ve got a kvetch of my......

Photo by Joseph Astor In a career that spanned the 20th century, the petite 5-foot firebrand Martha Graham — legend, icon, Mother of Modern Dance — was indeed larger than life. This weekend she returns from the grave — at least her doppelgänger, Richard Move, does — for Divine Normal,......

Spring arrives, and with it several notable dance companies from out of town -- Bill T. Jones, Martha Graham, Joe Goode and Merce Cunningham -- who are performing over the next three weeks at area venues, beginning tonight. The Martha Graham Dance Company presents a very fine view of modern......