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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She studied ballet in Paris until her Jewish family fled the Nazis, first to Portugal then to...
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A week ago the world was already struggling to find equilibrium as folk emerged from the Covid-19 shutdown facing the new choreography of social distancing and facemasks. Then things took another dark pivot with the videotaped death of George Floyd. What has followed presented protesters raising their arms, chanting “I can’t breathe”, and even some police taking a knee. Then there are the looters and the bully …
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