Category: This Week in Dance

Experimental dance in Venice Beach risk-taking arts festival; tap masters in Huntington Beach;...

Contemporary dance festival’s final sparks in West LA; a hip-hop Underground Railroad to Mexico arrives in Pasadena; clowns pas de deux in Atwater Village; fireworks dance across SoCal skylines this week, plus a peek at next week.

Dance festivals bloom in Lincoln Heights, West LA, and Hollywood; al fresco around-town dancing moves to a Hollywood cemetery,  a downtown plaza, and a Mid-City museum; a New York visitor brings ballet downtown; locavore ballet blossoms in University Park and downtown; taiko choreography has the beat in Santa Monica; art and dance downtown; more SoCal dance performance this week, plus a peek at next week.

Beverly Hills hosts farewell from a top tier SoCal company; surround dance in a Hawthorne toy company, al fresco dance in West Hollywood, Century City and Hancock Park; South Asian dance in Venice; mixed bill ballet in Brea, Santa Monica, and downtown LA; escapism in Lincoln Heights, dance-drenched musical theatre in Pasadena and Little Tokyo; more So Cal dance this week, and a peek at next week.

NYC jazz troupe joins LA dance companies in Dominguez Hills; a World Dance take on Swan Lake in North Hollywood; contemporary dance considers LGBTQIA+ artists in Santa Monica and El Sereno; multi-genre dance in Torrance; escapist dance in Lincoln Heights; Chinese dance and Scottish dance anchor reconsiderations of two classic Broadway musicals in Little Tokyo and Pasadena; more SoCal dance this week, and a peek at next week (May 29-June 4)

1950s swing dance in Glendale; Chinese dance goes nightclubbing in Little Tokyo; intriguing...