LA Dance Review

The contemporary dance world is at a crossroads, grappling with globalism, hyper-interconnectedness, and informational access in a way that may be pushing the art form toward the obscure, the uncertain, the vague, the unknowable—as evidenced in the evening of dance last weekend at the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City, presented by ate9 and Jacob […]

The New Original Works (NOW) at REDCAT, in the heart of downtown LA, is a long-standing three-week festival that features a unique three-part bill each week. This year, the festival opened with a bang, hosting a surreal music experience by Eliza Bagg, Rohan Chander, and George R. Miller; a somatic storytelling ritual by Meena Murugesan; […]

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, […]

We in Ventura County are accustomed to driving into the city (Los Angeles) to see dance, so what a glorious pleasure to have excellent local dance come to us for a change! BODYTRAFFIC proved to Ventura County that dance is welcome here,

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, […]

This Saturday Jessica Kondrath | The Movement presented an evening of dance at MiMoDa Studio. Shared Spaces was an apt name for the performance as it featured Kondrath’s Company along side guests RE|Dance Group and Reneé Murray. The studio setting provided an intimate evening of dance with an audience on two sides of the performance […]

Clairobscur is an excellent example of high quality, classically based concert dance that is right here in the Los Angeles indie dance scene. The dancers must be recognized for their excellence both in technical skill and performance technique. Sefton has created a company that is mature and convincing. Saturday’s performance at Diavolo Dance Space highlighted […]