Category: This Week in Dance

Jazz-fueled ballet in Northridge; fairy tale ballet in Hancock Park; swan ballet in Thousand Oaks, Santa Clarita, and Irvine; compelling contemporary in West LA and Downtown LA; French/North African urban dance in Beverly Hills; tap mastery in Downtown LA; Vietnamese dance in Sierra Madre; faculty dancemakers in Irvine and Downtown LA; a multi-discipline diarist with teddy bears in West LA; more SoCal dance this week, and a peek at next week.

A lovestruck festival opens in Laguna Beach; dueling festival finales in West LA; French/North African urban dance in Beverly Hills; swans flutter into four SoCal venues, guitarist amid dancers in Cerritos; faculty dancemakers in Irvine; more SoCal dance this week, and a peek at next week.

New federal travel bans jeopardize African dancers’ tour to SoCal; new choreography showcased in West LA festival; a legacy modern dance in Orange; contemporary choreography in Santa Monica, Frogtown, Westwood, and Pasadena; Ohio visitors open Laguna dance fest; ballet two ways in Santa Barbara; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at what’s coming next week.

Contemporary ballet in Beverly Hills and Malibu; new contemporary dance in West LA; majorettes celebrated in University Park; concert street dance tours San Diego, Palm Desert, and Beverly Hills; dance infiltrates opera, a maze, comedy, and percussion in Long Beach, Sierra Madre, Hollywood and Cerritos; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at what’s coming next week.

A ballet anniversary marked in Beverly Hills; six of OC’s best dance companies together in Irvine; contemporary dance in Sylmar and West LA; South Asian dance in Orange; dance film fests in West LA, Downtown LA, and Los Feliz; musical theater dances into Costa Mesa; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.

Site specific dance in City Hall; LA street dance takeover in Mid-City stage; traditional dancers welcome Japanese guests in Little Tokyo; iconic LA choreographer celebrated in West LA; museum dance in Westwood; healing moves in University Park; movie ranches, rehearsal mishaps, devotion, and musical explorations in West LA dance fest; new choreography in Santa Monica; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.

Dance continues to concentrate and overlap at a West LA contemporary festival; ballet season and competition season previews in Irvine and El Sereno, athletic Chinese history in Thousand Oaks; plus a peek at next week’s SoCal dance.

This week live dance tilts toward West LA where a festival adds a second theater; Thousand Oaks hosts a fairytale ballet; plus a peek at next week as more dance returns to LA stages.

Dance and drumming celebrate Kwanzaa in Baldwin Hills; Austrian visitors mark the new year with waltzes and ballet in Costa Mesa and Downtown LA; a ballet about Santa’s enforcer in Venice Beach; the parade of Nutcracker ballets continue; plus a peek at next week (January 2-8). 

The best of DEI is alive and showcased in Downtown LA; a folkloric seasonal fete in Northridge; encore ballet scare in Venice; peak Nutcracker season throughout SoCal; and a peek at next week (still more Nutcrackers?)