Getting Jelly to Dance – An Interview with Choreographer Dell Howlett
With the opening of the musical Jelly’s Last Jam at the Pasadena Playhouse, this song and dance...
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Author: Ann Haskins
In the Garden, the Park, and the Old Zoo!!
Site specific dance goes al fresco in Santa Monica, Griffith Park and Santa Ana; beloved dance venue celebrates 35; flamenco for Japanese disaster relief; contemporary ballet downtown; El Sereno hosts works in progress; Hollywood fests on the fringe; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.
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Dance “En Plein Air”
Dance gets immersive and site specific in Heritage Square, Santa Ana, and Beverly Hills; a Juneteenth preview in Westwood; a Turkish influence in Santa Monica; contemporary ballet in Westwood, Pasadena, and downtown; opera dances downtown and in Long Beach; next gen dance in Hancock Park, Irvine, and downtown; more So Cal dance this week, and a peek at next week.
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Dancing into History and Victorian Mansions – Achinta McDaniel on Blue13 Dance Company’s Immersive New Event
When the pandemic drove dance performances online or into parking lots before audiences seated in their cars with the car lights providing the lighting, a few dance troupes ventured performances that moved in outdoor venues where masked pods of audience followed masked dancers, while everyone kept a safe distance apart.
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Navigating David Hockney’s Zig Zag Stairs – Kitty McNamee Talks about LA Opera’s Turandot
Set in a ‘once upon a time’ China designed by celebrated artist David Hockney, LA Opera opens six performances of Puccini’s Turandot. The popular opera has a signature staircase as iconic as that balcony in Romeo and Juliet. For this Turandot, Hockney’s boldly colored sets frame a zig zag stairway for the tale of the emperor’s daughter who …
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