Author: Ann Haskins

Bending Backwards

Bending Backwards

By | Mar 15, 2023

From a journal page to the stage in El Sereno, percussive feet in Long Beach and Malibu, celebrating a barrier breaking ballerina in Hancock Park, Persian resistance dances in Irvine, contemporary ballet from a Brit in Santa Monica,  more SoCal dance this week and a peek at next week.

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Now, Soon

Now, Soon

By | Mar 9, 2023

Choose to wander among five decades in Pasadena, contemporary ballet in Santa Monica, demystification in Sylmar, South Asian dance in West Hills, flamenco in Long Beach and Malibu, more about Eva Perón in Santa Barbara, more SoCal dance this week and a peek at next week.

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Time Traveling With Sondheim

Time Traveling With Sondheim

By | Mar 7, 2023

Before they began work on Sunday in the Park With George, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine spent days at the Art Institute of Chicago absorbing George Surat’s painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884. Sondheim is quoted as remarking that Seurat’s painting of visitors to a Paris park already looked like a play—”a stage full of people.”

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Can a Glass Ceiling Become a Mirror?

Can a Glass Ceiling Become a Mirror?

By | Mar 1, 2023

More RED comes to Westwood, time travel in Pasadena, celebrating women in West Hollywood and downtown, upbeat contemporary dance in El Sereno, Culver City and Sylmar, going site specific in the Venice canals, Mardi Gras sambas into Mid-Wilshire, more SoCal dance this week and a peek at next week.

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