Category: This Week in Dance

A praised ballet is encored in Beverly Hills, a contemporary dance fest resumes in West LA dance...

Fires burn. Hurricane winds catapult embers and ash. Among the victimized thousands, LA dancers, choreographers, and teachers lost homes and livelihoods. Some scheduled performances have been cancelled (see below). Farther outside the current burn area, other dance events remain on, for now. With the volatile situation and ongoing wind forecasts, prudent ticketholders should double check their event’s status…

Dance tilts to West LA venues to start the new year as a Crenshaw-based contemporary company celebrates 45 years, a UCLA museum hosts a Congolese visitor, and a Westside theater opens a six-week dance fest; plus a peek at next week.

Inside its signature tent at the Santa Monica pier, the last show of 2024 also claims the title as the first show in 2025; Also, visitors from China dance into downtown. After this slow week, a new year of dance is warming up in the wings. Watch this space.

Locavore dance descends on downtown; flamenco adds fire to the season in Silverlake; mountain dance in the Arts District; an ecclectic take on a holiday favorite in Glendale; a delayed dance tour arrives in Inglewood; a sandy cirque in Santa Monica; the link to this season’s Nutcrackers, plus more SoCal dance this week, and a peek at next week.

Lovers as collaborators considered in Santa Monica; visceral South African dance returns to Westwood; encore of late summer dance festival in San Pedro; new contemporary choreography in the Arts District and the City of Commerce; the link to this season’s Nutcrackers; more SoCal dance this week, and a peek at next week.

Scientists weigh in on a dance about a scientist;  memories evoked in Beverly Hills; twisty...

New contemporary choreography in Atwater Village and downtown; jazz dance in Lake Forest; cirque tents in Santa Monica; Kabuki-infused Sondheim extended in Little Tokyo; the first Nutcracker ballets for 2024 crack their shells, more SoCal dance this busy week, and a peek at next week.

New York powerhouse dancers downtown; rarely seen post-modern works honor a legendary creator in Santa Monica, contemporary ballet in Northridge and Heritage Square, a tap/piano duo celebrate Gershwin in Costa Mesa, new contemporary choreography sightings in the Arts District, Atwater Village, Long Beach, and downtown;  Kabuki-infused Sondheim in Little Tokyo, more SoCal dance this busy week, and a peek at next week.