LA Dance Review

The immersive event, entitled Our Dancer’s Project, produced by the socially progressive company, Bodies in Play, on April 13th at LA Dance Project, is one that a written description can never do proper justice to. Envisioned and directed by company founder and facilitator Andrew Pearson, the ensemble cast (Cristina Florez, Darby Epperson, Celine Kiner, Tiffany […]

This March, the 8th Annual International Women’s Day Dance Festival, produced and coordinated by MashUp Contemporary Dance in Los Angeles, featured another stunning showcase of female and non-binary choreographers. The weekend included many events, including classes, workshops, and discussion panels, surrounding the essential topic of access and inclusion for women in dance. This year, the […]

Azuki Umeda’s dance work, how I became kinder, and kinder, closed the six-week dance series Dance at the Odyssey last weekend at the Odyssey Theater. The evening-length work developed her Master’s thesis work from CSU Long Beach as a debut concert work in the LA dance scene. The result of two years of research, the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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. 

Hosting four days of dance classes, workshops, performances, discussions and screenings, MashUp Contemporary Dance Company went big for their 6th annual festival to celebrate female identifying choreographers. Saturday March 5th featured a Break the Bias showcase of female choreographed works performed at the LA Dance Project space. I was able to attend the evening performance […]

2020 very well could be labeled the year of many dance films and 2021 is still reaping the benefits from the COVID isolation time. MashUp Contemporary Dance is a collective of beautiful female dance artists keen on making dance (and in this case dance on film) with a social justice aim. bound / less is […]