Ricky Cole and Byron Bucao brought the heat and hype to Ventura County with their festival celebration of dance called Welcome to the 805. Hosted in Oxnard at the Oceanview Pavilion on November 12, the event showcased primarily hip-hop dance and crew-style performances. Between the matinee and evening performances, Cole and Bucao provided a fantastic […]
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Navigating Worlds and Memories Through Felt Dance Spaces
Wild Roots Dance presented an evocative night of dance last weekend at ARC Pasadena, titled “Dialogue + Sensations.” Co-directed by Kindra Windish and Vannia Ibarguen, Wild Roots Dance hosted this festival-style performance in which they invited an array of dance makers to enter a shared space with sensitivity and compassion. The result was an evening […]
San Pedro’s Outdoor Dance Treat
Every year, the San Pedro Festival of the Arts–an event coordinated by Louise Reichlin/Los Angeles Choreographers and Dancers–serves as a smorgasbord of Southern California Dance samplings, and this year was as delightful as ever. The event featured 19 pieces from a selection of companies who took the temporary stage at Peck Park under the welcoming […]
¡azúcar! Brings Ancestral Stories to the Ford
This past weekend, Contra-Tiempo swept a rapt audience off their feet at The Ford in Hollywood with the Afro-Carribean rhythms and dance rituals in ¡azúcar! The evening length work envisioned and instigated by company director Ana Maria Alvarez featured a cast of exquisite Latine and black dancers who evoked the history of the colonial Americas […]
High Energy Rhythms Hit the Hollywood Fringe
If you have never been to a Fringe festival, you are missing out! Fringe and Fringe-style festivals happen around the globe in a variety of cities and feature some of the most innovative, entertaining, and wiley performing artists imaginable. DrumatiX at the Hollywood Fringe filled the Broadwater mainstage theater with funk-based grooves and playful physical […]
Kenneth Walker Dance Project Further Beautifies the Brand
Bringing dance into public spaces has wonderful benefits for communities as it reclaims spaces renewing them with beauty and meaning that can be enjoyed both by dance fans as well as casual passersby. Kenneth Walker Dance Project anointed the Brand Library and Art Center this past week as the third program in the 2023 Brand […]
Acts of Matter brings groovy party vibes to Stomping Ground with DISplay
Rebecca Lemme’s performance of DISplay at Stomping Ground was a disco hit this March. Featuring a cast of five dancers including Lemme, the evening-length work showcased Acts of Matter’s playful side as well as the ensemble’s post-modern and contact improv roots. A blend of disco balls and unabashed vulnerability, the night of dance was performed […]
Inviting Terpsichore and Apollo Back to the Heart
Classicism is not dead as proven by choreographer and director Nancy Paradis and the company members of LA Dance Moves. Back to the Heart is a feature film that documents the creation and filming of an elegant balletic work in three movements. With the intent to reunite music and dance in a shared creative experience, […]
Luminario Ballet: Dancing in the Balance Between Mortal and Immortal
Luminario Ballet of Los Angeles did what it does best in its recent performance of Heroes, Sheroes, and Eros at the Wallis this February. The aptly named performance featured larger than life stories by performers who seem invincible. The exquisite physique of the dancers was not lost on the audience and brought no shortage of […]
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham: Captivating Groove and Humanizing Hope
An Untitled Love is a dance narrative of mythic proportions, told by a prophetic company of artists in the spirit of Abraham. A movement story of personal and communal transformation achieved through the relationships formed between the dancers and a deepening of the human condition. Kyle Abraham leads his company of collaborating artists in modeling a new paradigm of honest-being in the body, rich with stories and steeped in culture.
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