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Dd Exclusive: National Ballet of Canada’s Chelsy Meiss Gives an Inside Look...
Newly created full-length story ballets are few and far between. Full-length ballets that integrate modern technology and theatrics are even fewer. Yet that’s exactly what Christopher Wheeldon’s new...
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The Professional Class-taker; or, How to Get out of That Rut
I want to get a conversation going about class. As a project-based choreographer and dancer, I take class often—especially lately, since I’m trying to meet more people out West—but there is definitely...
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Response to National Ballet of Canada’s Alice in Wonderland US Premiere
I don’t normally expect much from an LA audience, but found myself thoroughly impressed with the excitement surging through the seats of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this past Friday night. There...
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The 100% Free Range Local Dance Series in Culver City, LA
Last month, I attended the second of Laura Karlin’s three-show 100% Free Range Local Dance Series in Culver City, Los Angeles. Karlin created the series, which presented seven local artists over three...
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A Defining Moment for Stacey Tookey’s Still Motion Dance Company
Stacey Tookey could be one of the best known contemporary choreographers of the moment. Her work on So You Think You Can Dance and numerous television shows has received acclaim from critics, dancers...
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LA’s Rite: Joffrey Ballet’s Performance of the The Rite of Spring
Le Sacre du Printemps – Credit Herbert Migdoll Three couples danced with elegance and measured emotion, before the lighting changed and Victoria Jaiani and Fabrice Calmels stepped up to amaze Los...
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LA’s Rite of Spring Symposium
Last month, I had the distinct pleasure of being able to tell my hipster friends that I couldn’t join them for lunch because I was going to be at a ballet symposium all day. This symposium was a...
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Celebrating Dance in LA? Producer Jamie Nichols gets it Done
For the past 9 years, producer, teacher and choreographer Jamie Nichols has been calling on the LA community to celebrate dance, with her expertly executed production held each year at the historic...
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Los Angeles Ballet’s Balanchine Gold
LAB in Concerto BaroccoPhoto Credit: Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Ballet is now in it’s 7th season, but even their most hardened dancers are only in their 4th. The company began...
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Dd Response: Trisha Brown Dance Company: The Retrospective Project
By the second piece on Royce Program A of Trisha Brown Dance Company: The Retrospective Project presented by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, I liked Trisha Brown. In a concise solo called...
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Dd Critical Conversation: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago/LINES Ballet...
After attending a joint performance by Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and LINES Ballet last week during Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center in Los Angeles, I spoke with HSDC dancer...
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Dd Response: ABT’s Mixed Repertoire at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler...
On a picturesque Los Angeles summer evening, American Ballet Theatre (ABT) opened its 16th engagement at The Music Center at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with a mixed repertoire program. While the...
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Dd Short Short List for Week of 8/26
1. Looking Through the Glass, an abstract re-telling of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by C. Eule Dance. 8/29 and 8/30 at chashama Urban Garden Room One Bryant...
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Dd Response: “I Have Lived a Thousand Years”
A copy of “I Have Lived a Thousand Years,” a Holocaust memoir by Dr. Livia Bitton-Jackson, sits on a bookshelf in my parent’s house in Michigan. Last Saturday, while there to teach and visit, I picked...
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Dd Response: The CURRENT SESSIONS Volume III, Issue II
This August marked the 2-year anniversary of The CURRENT SESSIONS, a semi-annual, New York City dance series founded by artist, creative director, and producer Alexis Convento. The premise of this...
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Dd Short Short List for the Week of 10/14
Here’s a rundown of shows on the west coast this week… 1. Nederlands Dance Theater Oct. 18-19, 7:30pm; Oct. 20 2:00pm Under the artistic leadership of Paul Lightfoot, NDT is one of the leading...
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Dd Exclusive: Savion Glover brings ‘Serious Awareness’ to Tap Dance
For award-winning dancer/choreographer, Savion Glover, tap dance is no laughing matter. In anticipation of his upcoming performance which opens the season at the Brooklyn Center for Performing Arts, I...
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Dd Response—Get on the Good Foot: A Celebration in Dance
Derick K. Grant performs during Opening Night of James Brown: Get on the Good Foot, A Celebration in Dance Get on the Good Foot: A Celebration in Dance honored the life of James Brown (1933-2006),...
View ArticleDd Response: Ate9 dANCE cOMPANY
A man walked onto the stage of the Carpenter Performing Arts Center at California State University Long Beach carrying a chair. He set it down in the center of a trio of women who were dancing to...
View ArticleLA Ballet’s Swan Lake: Does the 137-Year Old Work Still Work?
My close friend’s brother is an art handler for NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. He’s described to me the great care that is taken to preserve centuries-old works–the many hands artworks must pass...
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