Author: Ann Haskins

How to Make a Comeback

A site specific performance cut short by the pandemic makes like phoenix, a dancer/poet downtown and consideration of the first US slave rebellion are among new streams, plus more SoCal dance this week.

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Drive-In Dance, Take Two

A look back at East Germany’s mastery of the form as surveillance expands in China, Britain and here, a choreographer brings an LA flair to a New York fest, and alternating weekends of live dance (but bring a car), plus encore streams, where to send videos, and where to find dance classes this week in SoCal dance.

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Striving in Different Directions

Sad news this week includes a live performance postponed due to fires, a popular dance studio loses to developers, and efforts to bring Cirque du Soleil out of bankruptcy lost to creditors, leaving those thousands of Cirque dancers on unemployment lines along with freelancers and those laid off as dance companies remain closed.

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