The first in a series of three coffee shop locations, the Santa Monica café Unurban was a quirky and dynamic location for a dance performance. I attended Keith Glassman’s Coffeehouse Dances last year and enjoyed the diversity, the mixed media, and the hip feel of seeing dance in public, amidst the locals and passersby. This […]
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Sophia Stoller’s Lock and Key is a Visual Feast
You know you are at a well-produced dance concert when you see five trees of side lighting, each with four instruments on both sides of a small black box style theater. And, this was just the beginning of an evening of design eye candy. Sophia Stoller is an MFA candidate at CalArts and her thesis […]
BARE Celebrates 10 Years with VENOMOUS
Occasionally I go to a dance show in which everything fits– the essence of the performance space, the energy of the dancers, and the vision of the choreographer. Everything seems to jive in such a way that allows me, as an audience member, to enter an alternate universe for just a fleeting moment. The bicoastal, […]
A Decade of Celebrating Los Angeles Dance
Celebrate Dance was a joyous celebration at the Alex Theater as producer Jamie Nichols commemorated 10 years of heralding the rich culture of dance in Los Angeles. It was so wonderful to see dancers, choreographers, and artistic directors out supporting each other, celebrating with one another, “watercoolering” about making dance for the past 10, 20, […]
Going Rogue in Fresno 2015
The Rogue Festival in Fresno is one of the largest and most successful Fringe-style festival west of the Mississippi! It includes a blend of performing artists with an indie edge that makes for an exciting 10 days of new theater, music and dance. I have seen over 11 shows with two days two go. Most […]
Greg Langner’s CHAOS: An Evening of the Existential
One of my favorite aspects about dance is the blurry line between “dance” and “theater.” I use these terms in quotes because at times we can easily define them as separate entities, but it is shows like CHAOS that disprove our limited definitions. Greg Langner’s original production at the Mosaic Lizard Theater in Alhambra was […]
Romero’s FUSE Dance Company Performs SEVER
FUSE Dance Company is celebrating its 5 year anniversary this weekend at the Diavolo Dance Space with its show SEVER, directed and choreographed by FUSE founder Joshua Romero. Having seen and reviewed a duet of his in the last MixMatch dance festival, I was looking forward to this performance. The evening-length work told the universal […]
SoleVita and RhetOracle: a Perfect Dance Pairing
Some might call SoleVita and RhetOracle a creative match made in heaven. These contemporary jazz dance companies both thrive on athleticism, entertaining narratives, and showstopper appeal. This past weekend’s show, The Great American Mixtape, featured a full, two hours of nonstop, high-energy dance. Here is an account of my favorites of the night. SoleVita’s Stealing […]
Taste of Brazilian Treats to Come: The Union Project Dance Company
The Union Project Dance Company arrived on the LA scene just two years ago, and has participated in a number of festivals around the LA area, quickly gaining exposure within the community. Tonight’s fundraiser was held to raise money for their first self-produced, evening-length performance to be held in August of this year as a […]
Cup of Java: Gamelan and Dance from Java, Indonesia at Aratani Theatre
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 […]
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