Online platforms brim with dance events taking on the virus, racism, isolation, and sometimes just dancing because it is so needed now. This week brings a bumper crop of new additions, encore screenings, a new Dare to Dance in Public opportunity, and the Music Center’s summer dance party goes online. Remember live performance? A new …
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Ironic that an art form predicated on three-dimensional presentation for a live audience now is ascending a steep learning curve to transpose live dance into the two-dimensional worlds of streaming, video and film. Some efforts are fully realized, others still are finding their footing with the new media, but dance is an art form built on practice, repetition and experience to develop technique and artistry.
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Perhaps a hopeful sign of life as two dance events cancelled early in the Covid-19 lockdown reopen this week in reinvented ways. Not so hopeful, scheduled events continue to be cancelled or postponed, including the cancelled debut of a new ballet collective in Orange County and Los Angeles Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty postponed to June 2021. Semi-hopeful, more announcements are for postponement, not outright cancellation.
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This week more glimmers as SoCal dance shows signs of life onstage sans audience, live-streamed new work and reimagined classics, plus scheduled performances no longer cancelled, just postponed until theaters shift from paused to open.
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local dance continues to innovate on-line, joining the ranks of national and international companies streaming performances. For live performance, this may be the year that wasn’t. Yet dance is resilient, exploring new virtual stages to perform work in a world wracked by the ongoing pandemic and resurgent political issues surrounding race and inequality.
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