Author: Ann Haskins

Inadvertent Lies

Dance tilts to West LA venues to start the new year as a Crenshaw-based contemporary company celebrates 45 years, a UCLA museum hosts a Congolese visitor, and a Westside theater opens a six-week dance fest; plus a peek at next week.

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Taking a Pause

Inside its signature tent at the Santa Monica pier, the last show of 2024 also claims the title as the first show in 2025; Also, visitors from China dance into downtown. After this slow week, a new year of dance is warming up in the wings. Watch this space.

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Dancing Out One Year and Into the Next

Kwanzaa celebrations in Crenshaw; a cirque closes in Santa Monica; a star dancer and friends alight in Riverside; New Year’s ballet and champagne served up in Costa Mesa and downtown; 2024’s last Nutcracker onstage in Hollywood; and in the wings, a new year of dance awaits its cue.

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Wrapping Up the Season

Locavore dance descends on downtown; flamenco adds fire to the season in Silverlake; mountain dance in the Arts District; an ecclectic take on a holiday favorite in Glendale; a delayed dance tour arrives in Inglewood; a sandy cirque in Santa Monica; the link to this season’s Nutcrackers, plus more SoCal dance this week, and a peek at next week.

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Taking It with You

Lovers as collaborators considered in Santa Monica; visceral South African dance returns to Westwood; encore of late summer dance festival in San Pedro; new contemporary choreography in the Arts District and the City of Commerce; the link to this season’s Nutcrackers; more SoCal dance this week, and a peek at next week.

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