Vampires descend on El Segundo, ballet meets tap in Northridge and San Diego, durational performance in Little Tokyo, site specific adventures in Willowbrook, Pasadena, and Riverside, Korean dance revisited in the Arts District, Bella Lewitzky dances again in West LA, live-streamed ballet from around the world, more SoCal dance this busy, busy week and a peek at next, equally busy week.
Live This Week
Turning up
After opening in Santa Barbara, the four city SoCal tour of Tiler Peck & Friends continues with two more theaters. Led by New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, Turn It Out includes choreography from Alonzo King, William Forsythe, tapper Michelle Dorrance, and Peck. Expect contemporary ballet in toe shoes side by side with tap dance. The Soraya, Cal State Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge; Sat., Oct. 28, 8 pm, Sun., Oct. 29, 3 pm, https://thesoraya.org/ Also at San Diego Civic Theatre, 1100 Third Ave., San Diego; Wed., Nov. 1, 7:30 pm, $25-$125. https://sandiegotheatres.org/ Also at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa; Sat., Nov. 4, 7:30 pm, Sun., Nov. 5, 2 pm, $29-$69. https://www.scfta.org/events/2023/turn-it-out-with-tiler-peck
Tiler Peck & Friends. Photo by Christopher Duggan
Residue
In her first major LA installation, artist Moriah Evans offers Remains Persist, a four hour durational performance considering the vestiges of past actions, personal histories, and socio-political movements. Evans draws on somatic practices and feminist critiques of performance and visual culture.The installation/performances are part of MOCA’s Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs curated by Alex Sloane. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 N. Central Ave., Little Tokyo; Sat.-Sun., Oct. 28-29, Thurs.-Sat., Nov. 2-4, 4 pm to 8 pm, $10. https://www.moca.org/program/moriah-evans-remains-persist
Moriah Evans. Photo courtesy of the artist
Getting to the root
For Dialogues + Sensations 2023, the contemporary company Wild Roots Dance and its choreographers Kindra Windish and Vannia Ibarguen are joined by six other West Coast movement artists. Contributing choreographers for the two evenings of new dance are Megan Fowler-Hurst, Marisa Malzone, Stephanie Mizrahi, Alondra Perez, Santiago Rivera, and Dorcas Roman, plus Windish and Ibarguen. ARC Pasadena, 1158 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena; Fri.-Sat., Oct. 27-28, 8 pm, $20-$25. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dialogues-sensations-2023-tickets-713811287777
Wild Roots Dance. Photo courtesy of the artists
There will be blood
As Halloween festivities begin and horror movies take over the airwaves, Dracula has emerged as the season’s answer to the Nutcracker. West Coast Ballet returns for the second year with its version. Guest artist Eduard Sargsyan from Pacific Ballet Dance Theater does the vampire duty. The audience is encouraged to wear costumes for post-performance photos with the cast. El Segundo Performing Arts Center, 640 Main St., El Segundo; Sun., Oct. 29, 6 pm, $39. https://westcoastballet.org/
Dualities
Final shows of American Contemporary Ballet’s double bill opener from artistic director Lincoln Jones. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring provides the score for The Rite while Burlesque draws on music from several composers. ACB Studios, Two California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., Suite 2850, downtown; Fri.-Sat., Oct. 27-28, 8 pm. $100-$140. American Contemporary Ballet.
American Contemporary Ballet. Photo by Caleb Thal
How they resist
Six Afro- and Afro-descent women articulate the movement and message of resistance in Dorothée Munyaneza‘s Mailles. The Friday show includes a post-performance discussion with the artist. REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd St., downtown; Thurs.-Sat., Nov. 2-4, 8:30 pm, $30. https://ci.ovationtix.com/34348/production/1172628
HomeLA – Photo courtesy of the artists
Headed home
A new installment by the site-specific performance group homeLA sets down in Riverside as dance, sound, visual, and culinary artists gather for Together Fire. The extended event includes dance and dance video by Crystal Sepúlveda, Nohely Gomez, taisha paggett, and meital yaniv. Location in Riverside disclosed to ticket holders; Sat., Oct. 28, 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm, $25. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/togetherfire-tickets-721545270327.
Heidi Duckler Dance. Photo by Rush Varela
Forget not
Continuing their ongoing relationship with this medical center and the Willowbrook community, choreographer Heidi Duckler and her Heidi Duckler Dance offer I Will Remember What I Forgot . Martin Luther King Jr. Behavioral Health Center, 12021 Wilmington Ave., Suite 2B, Wilmington; Thurs., Nov. 2, 12:30 pm, free with registration at https://heididuckler.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/heididuckler/eventRegistration.jsp?event=296&
DATA or 7 ways to dance a dance through prison walls. Photo by Ciro Hurtado
On the outside
With funding from a California Arts Council fellowship, Suchi Branfman and her collaborators at Dancing Through Prison Walls bring a live performance of Undanced Dances Through Prison Walls During a Pandemic. Desert Hotsprings Public Library,14380 Palm Dr., Desert Hotsprings; Sat., Oct. 28, free. https://www.dancingthroughprisonwalls.org/calendar
Let’s play
Drawing on and playing with traditional Korean dance and folk opera, choreographer DaEun Jung derives new contemporary movement for her full-length Nori. The title translates as “play” as the dancemaker sets out to play around and develop new approaches to tradition with her dancers Arletta Anderson, Hyoin Jun, and Tulsi Shah. LA Dance Project, 2245 E. Washington Blvd., downtown arts district; Thurs.-Fri., Nov. 2-3, 8 pm, $24. https://performancepractice.vbotickets.com/event/norri_by_daeun_jung/106515
DaEun Jung. Photo by Michael Palma
Back in time
In A Matter of Time, performers at Lineage Dance take audiences on a moving tour throughout the venue, each room covering a decade from the 1950s to 1999. On arrival, audience members can choose whether to move forward or backward in time. Lineage Performing Arts Center 920 E. Mountain Ave., Pasadena; Fri.-Sat., Oct. 27-28, Thurs.-Sun., Nov. 2-5, 7 pm, $25-$40. https://www.lineagepac.org/matter-of-time
Lineage Dance. Photo courtesy of the artists.
About that train
How to dance Leo Tolstoy’s romantic tragedy Anna Karenina is the subject of See the Music, Hear the Dance, a Colburn School Dance program, live and live-streamed. Joffrey Ballet artistic director Ashley Wheater leads a demonstration/discussion of the ballet version choreographed by Yuri Possokhov that the Joffrey premiered in 2019. Former Joffrey dancers Leslie Carothers and Margaret Tracey join the discussion and current Joffrey dancers Jeraldine Mendoza and Dylan Gutierrez perform excerpts accompanied by musicians from the Colburn Conservatory. Colburn School, Zipper Hall, 200 S. Grand Ave., downtown; Sat., Oct. 28, 7 pm, $25, $10 livestream. https://www.colburnschool.edu/calendar/events/see-the-music-hear-the-dance-3/
Joffrey Ballet. Photo by Cheryl Mann
Self-ish
Described as somewhere between a work in progress and a work about process, Intimates is Spenser Theberge‘s consideration of longing for a true sense of self, the faking of it, and the weariness that comes with the struggle. LA Dance Project, 2245 E. Washington Blvd., downtown arts district; Sat., Oct. 28, 8 pm, $24. https://performancepractice.vbotickets.com/events
Spenser Theberge. Photo by Jacob Jonas
Speeding up
Six cross genre artists are presented in ACCELERATEDDDDDD: Works In Progress, part of the LA Performance Practice LAX Festival. Taking the stage are Future Human Support Positions byChelsea Zeffiro, Rooster Boi’s Fantastikal Lounge Act by DeLa aka Alison De La Cruz, Untitled Sisters Project by Mireya Lucio, Two of Pentacles by Daniel Corral, Object Permanence by Daria Kaufman, and We The Poor, a musical by Anu Yadav. Navel, 1611 S. Hope St., downtown; Sun., Oct. 29, 6 pm, $15. https://performancepractice.vbotickets.com/events
A Peek at Next Week
Studio Dimitri Chamblis: takemehome at REDCAT, Disney Hall, 631 W. 2nd St., downtown; Wed.-Thurs., Nov. 8-9, 8:30 pm, $30. https://www.redcat.org/
Danza Floricanto/USA: Fiesta del Día de los Muertos at Floricanto Center for the Performing Arts, 2900 Calle Pedro Infante, East LA; Sat., Nov. 4, 8 pm, Sun., Nov. 5, 5 pm, $15 presale, $20 at door, $10 children at door.https://danzafloricantousa.org/calendar
Danza Floricanto/USA. Photo by Frank Sandoval.
Mark Morris Group: The Look of Love at Musco Center for the Arts, Chapman College, 415 N. Glassell, Orange; Fri., Nov. 4, 7:30pm, $41.25-$78. https://muscocenter.org/Online/mapSelect.asp
MashUp Contemporary Dance Company: Open Mic Night at Stomping Ground LA, 5453 Alhambra Ave., El Sereno; Sat., Nov. 4, 7 pm, $5. https://www.mashupdance.com/calendar
Benita Bike’s DanceArt at AMP Theatre, Los Angeles Mission College, 13356 Eldridge Ave., Sylmar; Thurs., Nov. 9, 7 pm, free. https://www.danceart.org/
Nihon Buyo Kai: An Afternoon of Japanese Dance at North High School, 3620 W. 182nd St., Torrance; Sat., Nov. 4, 2 pm, $20. https://nihonbuyokai.org/ or nihonbuyokai@gmail.com.
World Ballet: Cinderella at the Irvine Barclay Theatre. 4242 Campus Dr., Irvine; Wed.-Thurs., Nov. 8-9, 7 pm, $35-$85. https://ci.ovationtix.com/35720/production/1161746?performanceId=11290526
High Voltage at Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice; Fri., Nov. 3, 8 pm, $10. https://www.electriclodge.org/high-voltage/
Max 10 at Electric Lodge, Scott Kelman Theater, 1416 Electric Ave., Venice; Mon., Nov. 6, 7:30 pm, $10. https://www.electriclodge.org/max-10/
Of Note
Hosted by San Francisco Ballet, Britain’s Royal Ballet, and the Australian Ballet, World Ballet Day opens up the ballet world with free, digital live-streamed classes and rehearsals from companies around the world. Wed., Nov. 1, all day, info at https://worldballetday.com/welcome
Bridget Murname’s loving documentary celebrating the life and work of Bella Lewitzky opens for a limited run. Bella screens at the Laemmle Royal Theatre, 11523 Santa Monica Blvd., West LA; Fri.-Thurs., Nov. 3-9, see theatre website for times. https://www.laemmle.com/theater/royal
Featured Image: Tiler Peck and Michelle Dorrance in “Tiler Peck & Friends” – photo by Christopher Duggan
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