Pushing and pulling, Simone Forti and Carmela Hermann Dietrich rejoined in performance to honor their shared journey in dance improvisation. Forti and Herman Dietrich explored their post-modern dance aesthetic with arms and legs intertwined in struggle in a seesaw of layered memories, stories, and political investigations. The warmth, humor, patience, political bent, and personal insights […]
Beautiful, connected, skilled dancing from Cuba—a luscious blend of ballet, modern, release-technique, partnering, and street dancing, providing a movement vocabulary that can say just about anything. The Music Center’s celebration of Cuban arts as one of three parts of the Getty’s Far-Reaching Arts Program presents Malpaso Dance Company (Malpaso) in its Los Angeles debut. Malpaso, […]
14 January 2016 — LOS ANGELES, CA —A soulful, water goddess song invites us into another world, wind blows fabric at sunset, and the deity Oya dances with a rhythmic, undulating spine. We enter a magical unknown place filled with mystery that is luscious, tempting, tropical, liquid, intoxicating. Scream, crash, broken plastic, breathe; how […]
22 August 2015 — LOS ANGELES, CA — Kondrath’s movement mesmerizes. The carving torso and limbs combined with challenging changes of level, reaching of limbs into twisted shapes, teetering balances, and darting limb accents reveal a level of deep control, clarity of focus, and understanding of the body as medium of message. Jessica Kondrath presented […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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