Author: Ann Haskins

Unpressing the Pause Button

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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Is this the year that wasn’t?

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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Moves No One Wanted to Learn

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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Starting to Start?

SoCal doesn’t experience a crocus flower as the first sign that winter is ending and spring is stirring the world back to life. Perhaps that makes it harder to know whether announced steps to gradually reopen from the pandemic lockdown are market-driven or a true sign that someone has a real handle on the pandemic that as of this writing has infected 1.6 million and killed 100,000 souls just in the U.S.

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