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Fresh news coming at you right now! Watch out! In this week's Dish episode: A down-under ballet company approaches their golden anniversary, a three-time Tony nominee says it's "nice work if you can get it", and Cher's daughter... or son is the new talk on Dancing With The Stars.

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In this week's dish: Queen Elizabeth honors a choreographer, Kylie is getting ready for Les Folies, DWTS Maxim Chmerkowsky is a Bachelor and meet the person behind the Movement.

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We're starting the year with a bang! In this week's episode: The curse of Spiderman is back, Paula Abdul's Live to Dance premieres, and Robbie Williams snubs 90s dance moves.

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Choreographer Tessandra Chavez held her annual show this past Saturday December 18th and Sunday December 19th at the Montalban Theatre in Hollywood. Each evening presented works from Tessandra's companies Unity LA, Unity SD, and Unity 2, as well as various guest choreographers including Sonya Tayeh, Matt Cady, MJ, Erica Sobol, Bare Dance Company, Tony Czar, Kyle Hanagami, Justin Giles, Billy Bell, Ade Obayomi, DancePlug faculty members Tokyo, Gina Starbuck, and many more companies from LA and San Diego. We had also the pleasure to watch another faculty member Johanna Sapakie perform in an amazing duet choreographed by Sonya.

Click here to watch our interviews with Tessandra Chavez, Sonya Tayeh, Kyle Hanagami, Erica Sobol, Stephen 'Twitch' Boss, Cris Judd, Laurel Thomson, Jazmyne Jenkins, Tera Perez, Emmett Agapay, Ava Bernstine, Chloe Arnold and Sarah Reich.

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Trash collectors are making a dance, celebrities are ready to cha cha cha, and the material girl is looking for dancers.


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Los Angeles Ballet brought its most recent repertory evening titled NewWaveLA to the Alex Theatre this past Saturday and while the program was a significant departure from its usual programs of classical and neo classical dance , the four premieres on view didn’t rock the boat much. Many  adventuresome choreographers and their companies already on the LA scene are presenting more daring work than we saw on  this evening of dance but NewWaveLA represents an appealing experiment in the company’s programming.
The four choreographers represented, Mandy Moore, Josie Walsh, Travis Wall and Sonya Tayeh all come with mostly media driven exposure. Moore, Wall and Tayeh have worked regularly on So You Think You Can Dance which also recently broadcast  a segment from  LA BALLET’s Who Cares (Balanchine).  Ballet has a way of overwhelming attempts to push it into new orbits and such was the case with these four ballets which gave us new contexts but not much in the way of new movement, style or substance.

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REVIEW
NEWWAVE LA , LA BALLET
Alex Theatre, Glendale, May 22,2010
By Steven Woodruff