Category: This Week in Dance

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?)

Contemporary dance in a Hollywood sound stage and Lincoln Heights; new choreography in Beverly...

“Humaness” provocatively considered in Mid-City; four modern dance perspectives in Pasadena; site specific museum meanderings in Westwood; a dance take on an LA artist in Beverly Hills; spotlight on faculty dancemakers in University Park and downtown LA; dance invitational in Lake Terrace; more SoCal dance this week, a peek at next week, plus the Nutcrackers!

Named choreographers showcase new work in University Park; seasonal folkloric starts up in East LA; site specific explorers in Downtown LA; this week’s Nutcrackers; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.

Vets and dancing gymnasts conquer obstacles in Lincoln Heights; rabbits and red queens in Northridge; 20th anniversary brings new contemporary dance in LA Arts District; Taiko master feted in Little Tokyo; contemporary choreography in Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Downtown LA; story ballets in Thousand Oaks and Santa Barbara; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.

Armenian dance in Hollywood; Canadian ballet in Northridge; A.I. dances downtown; new contemporary choreography in Frogtown, Hollywood, Arts District, Long Beach, and downtown; ballet on tour in Glendale; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week.

Mansion dancing in the City of Industry; contemporary ballet from San Francisco in Long Beach; a quartet of local legends in Culver City; “La Catrina” onstage in East LA; new contemporary choreography in Palm Desert, Dominguez Hills, Santa Monica, and downtown; South Asian dance in Culver City; street dance downtown; surveillance surveyed in Little Tokyo; more SoCal dance this busy week, plus a peek at next week.