30 November 2014 — LOS ANGELES, CA — While dance cognoscenti know that European ballet was promoted in the late 1600s in France by King Louis XIV’s tireless dedication to court dancing, classical Javanese dance was similarly developed in the late 1700s by the Javanese sultans’ in order to promote and preserve Javanese culture through […]
Pat Taylor’s JazzAntiqua dance and music ensemble performed its latest work, Song in a Strange Land, Saturday night at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center. What an infectious blend of rhythm and storytelling! The show charmed a full house, which responded with lively applause, hooping and hollering and a final standing ovation. JazzAntiqua is an […]
LA Contemporary Dance Company shared not only an impressive performance, but also an intriguing creative process tonight in its opening performance of Into the Fray. Featuring four choreographers, two musicians, and a cast of sixteen dancers, this experimental choreographic collaboration proved a rich structure for dance making that was raw, powerful, and innovative. Kate Hutter, […]
Marlita Hill debuted her new company Speak Hill Dance in the Los Angeles independent dance scene this month with a two-week run of This Is Me at Grand Arts High School in downtown Los Angeles. I attended the closing show, feeling lucky to have gotten a seat in a sold out house. The cast of […]
11 October 2014 — PASADENA, CA — Two companies, Jessica Kondrath|The Movement and Megill & Company, co-presented an afternoon of diverse, rich, and entertaining dances ranging from formal contemporary ballet to informal structured improvisation at ARC Pasadena on September 27 & 28, 2014. This collaborative approach to sharing a concert provided multiple voices and variety […]
Review: After It Happened (Sunday Oct 5th, 2014) Laura Karlin’s Invertigo Dance Theatre is going out on a limb this month with a nearly unheard of (in LA) three week run of an evening length dance show, After It Happened. And, judging from the large attendance last night, it is a good thing. A warm […]
Dance Review Dance / Performance Art Squint, and Remake the World Dance Performance By Jessica Kondrath | The Movement (JKTM) and Megill & Company (MeCo) with Guest Choreographer Robbie Cook Reviewed by Mary Marsh mywordbymarymarsh.wordpress.com September 2014 Behind three small, brushed-metal letters, ARC, three choreographers (Beth Megill, Jessica Kondrath, and Robbie Cook) joined forces to […]
29 September 2014 — SANTA MONICA, CA — MAKedance, with choreography and direction by Melanie King McGray, presented its first full evening of modern dance, music, and short film in four dance works at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA on September 26 and 27, 2014. Dance works from over a 4-year period of […]
Marina Magalhães premiered her most recent dance theater work, (un)bridaled at the colorful and vibrant Le Studio in Culver City on Thursday Sept 18th, 2014. The cast of six women used dance, theater, music and video to question the nature of being young, female and single in Latino culture. The evening began with a festive […]
15 September 2014 — LOS ANGELES, CA — Through layers of meaning developed through simultaneous and juxtaposed text, dance, postures, costumes, symbolic props, and rhythmic movements with unison, repetition, and layering, Grand Lady Dance House reveals the fury of the often difficult journey to self-actualization as a female actor in the 21st century in Actress […]
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