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 […]

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 […]

Summation Dance/LA enjoyed its West Coast debut performance last weekend at Los Angeles Dance Project, presenting an evening-length work entitled on our way home, choreographed by company co-founder Taryn Vander Hoop. The hour-long work was presented alongside a new piece by LA-based dance maker Derion Loman, entitled dirty laundry. Presented in the lovely downtown, black […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Joy relishes in the contradictory nature of happiness, sits in the duplicity of living, and navigates a world of acting and being acted upon. Agami tests the edges of our tolerance to be both thrilled and entertained as she challenges us to see our fragility and hypocrisy. She holds her own cards close but gives away a rich performing art