Review: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago & Third Coast Percussion, the Wallis
Celebrating its 40th Anniversary Season, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago presented a musically driven two part show at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. In the first half, Third Coast Percussion, the Grammy award winning quartet of classically trained percussionists,
Review: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker in a word - magical! The classic story of The Nutcracker at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion performed by Miami City Ballet, began with beautiful animation projected on the stage curtain creating a screen effect, with layers of beautifully hand
Review: Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company at UCLA Royce Hall
In 2017, Bill T. Jones removed the word "dance" from the name of the company he founded with Arnie Zane in 1983. As he now says, "We're a contemporary performance ensemble." It is with this subtle, yet meaningful, frame of reference
Review: Diavolo / Architecture in Motion at the Music Center
The renowned Los Angeles-based dance company Diavolo with their unique fusion of performance styles and elaborately designed and viscerally engaging sets brought their newest "adventure" Voyage along with their 2000 work Trajectoire to Gloria Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center.Diavolo,
Review: Company Wayne McGregor Autobiography at the Music Center
Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center's 2018-19 Season opened with British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor contemporary dance company performing Autobiography. This mesmerizing work is an 80-minute contiguous series of 23 sections performed by the company of ten dancers
Review: Barak Ballet at The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
The Barak Ballet, founded by Los Angeles native Melissa Barak, returned to the Broad Stage for their fourth time and presented two world premier pieces, Cypher and Desert Transport, and a reprise of last year's well received E/SPACE.Cypher: photo credit Cheryl
Complexions Contemporary Ballet at The Music Center
Complexions Contemporary Ballet presented a two act performance of dance to the music of classical Bach and neo-classical Bowie choreographed by Founding Artistic and Executive Director Dwight Rhoden.In Art 1 "Bach 25", the company, clad in flesh colored costumes entered and
Review: Dada Masilo’s GISELLE at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Acclaimed South African choreographer Dada Masilo transforms the classical ballet story of a girl who dies of a broken heart from the betrayal by her suitor and then enters a netherworld into a high energy feminist reclaiming of power that re-imagines
Review: Lula Washington Dance Theatre at the Wallis
Thank goodness for Lula Washington and her dance company for presenting a three-night series of poignant performances at the Wallis Center for Cultural Affairs on the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend that offered a counter balance to the recent rhetoric