Filipino American identity pugnaciously explored in Boyle Heights; commissioned contemporary debuts in Long Beach; indigenous dance traditions in Brentwood; seasonal vampires and zombies haunt El Segundo, Beverly-Fairfax and Hollywood; contemporary take on doomed romance in Beverly Hills; street dance meets club dance in Cheviot Hills; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.
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A melange of star crossed lovers in Beverly Hills, giving voice to autism in Santa Monica, contemporary dance in West Adams, Sylmar, Pasadena, and Atwater Village, the 1960’s revisited in Brentwood; Vogue ball in Little Tokyo, first of the season’s vampires in Hollywood; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.
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The La Jolla Playhouse has a deserved reputation for incubating new theater but had never ventured into dance, until Is It Thursday Yet? was included in the current season. Directed by Tony-award winner Sonya Tayeh and co-choreographed by Tayeh and Jenn Freeman, the dance-theater work explores Freeman’s personal journey after a diagnosis of autism at age 33.
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Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi for voice and piano gets physicalized as Grammy-award winning soprano...
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The Twilight Saga meets Faust, with a twist, in Blood/Love: A Vampire Popera. The immersive rock musical opens this week at the aptly named Crimson, a Hollywood pop up gothic nightclub. Running through November 2, the vampire-meets-rock-star event injects a devilish romance into the spooky season.
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