Worth the Drive? Ballets Jazz Montreal’s L.A. Appearance
Seeing a dance that’s set to music to which you’ve also choreographed is unsettling in the same way hearing a song can remind you of a cheating ex. So I was not poised to enjoy “Zero In On,” a duet...
View ArticleDd Response: “mouth to mouth” Ate9
It was Ate9’s final run of “mouth to mouth” in LA. The show closed where it had premiered, and where the company often rehearses, at Los Angeles Live Arts. We were ushered single file into the warmly...
View ArticleRosanna Gamson Conveys Architectural Dreamworld at REDCAT
REDCAT’s 270-seat theater was an apt setting for independent choreographer and CalArts professor Rosanna Gamson/World Wide’s intimate STILL/RESTLESS, which she teased out into two separate sections,...
View ArticleA Stream of Consciousness Response: Jay Carlon’s ‘Out of Bounds’ at ACBH,...
Sunday, Oct. 8, 4:48 PM It feels a little strange to tell the concierge at the Annenberg Community Beach House I’m here for the performance. I go to the beach all the time—almost every day; my husband...
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“Rather This, Then” by Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge — A Transcript...
“This isn’t the thing. Please, don’t worry,” Spenser Theberge assured entrants to Navel LA, a lofted arts incubator and event space. He talked as he unwound and pressed down masking tape in a perimeter...
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On ‘ROSEWOOD’: Fragility, Beauty, and Thorns
By Lara Wilson and Belle Jessen Known as a venue for plays, The Odyssey Theatre on Sepulveda first introduced a dance season in 2017; they commissioned the work of three Los Angeles...
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How to tell the untold with CARLON
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A Centennial Conversation: ‘Night of 100 Solos’
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The Feminine Language in Barak Ballet’s “New Repertoire”
Words by Lara Wilson | Images by Cheryl Mann About a year ago, I stopped reading fiction written by men for awhile. What I saw in Andrea Schermoly’s Within Without, as part of Barak Ballet’s “New...
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