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McGregor duplicates the 23 pieces of the human genetic code in a program of 23 short vignettes set against the electronic music of the American rising-star sound artist, Jlin.
UNCAGED aims to give us a profound glimpse of the human condition through performances by five more or less local choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance and ba...
Mix Match Dance Festival, a series featuring mostly local companies, completed its fourth annual series of performances at the Electric Lodge in Venice this past weekend.
Review and award winners list of the 19th Annual Lester Horton Dance Awards, in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Ballet brought its most recent repertory evening titled NewWaveLA to the Alex Theatre, in Glendale CA.
The Ford Theatre kicked off its summer dance series last weekend with a double bill featuring BODYTRAFFIC and L.A. Contemporary Dance Company/SONOS.
The Ford Amphitheater continued with its wide ranging summer festival of dance on September 16th with FRACTURE, featuring four Los Angeles dance and theater companies along with...
The J.U.i.C.E. HIP-HOP FESTIVAL at the Ford delivered the peace, love and diversity show we've been used to since the festival presentation debuted three years ago.
At Colburn's Zipper Concert Hall across the street, the Tokyo String Quartet in collaboration with the Colburn School presented a couple of super-sized chamber music works--Â Me...
Those traveling from beyond the Southland to present their works included Thodos Dance Chicago, Sonia Dawkins Prism Dance Theatre and Whim W'Him (both from Seattle), Milwaukee B...
Except for the biggest and best of the major dance companies, live orchestral music is something of an endangered species in the concert dance world these days.
Los Angeles Ballet's Nutcracker is making its appointed rounds this December with performances in Glendale, Westwood and Redondo Beach.
John Malashock with his new multi-dimensional concert piece, THE FLOATING WORLD, shows just what an ambitious, small, contemporary company with lots of imagination is capable of...
Backhausdance has just concluded a terrific weekend of performances at The Irvine Barclay Theatre.
Regina Klenjoski is a choreographer who is not afraid to take on big themes.
Donna Sternberg and her eponymous company have been busy lately hooking up high concept dance works with ambitious topics in the world of science.
The Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles in its annual Lester Horton Awards program recognized outstanding Los Angeles dance companies in a two hour program.
Los Angeles Contemporary Dance Company returned to the Brewery and the spacious, workman-like Diavolo Dance Theater stage for two weekends of performances of four new works.
For the second year in a row Olivier Wevers and his company Whim W'him were awarded top honors at the 14th annual Dance Under the Stars Festival
Malashock Dance in its studio performances of Hidden Agendas showed just how sharply focused and vivid a small company performance can be, even without the advantages of a full...
Antics Performance, under company Artistic Director Amy Campion, voyaged in a retelling of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh.
America’s legacy modern dance companies have each found unique new routes keeping their founding choreographer’s visions on today’s stages.
Phil Chan's book "Final Bow For Yellowface" is an ever relevant read that tackles the topic of racial stereotypes within dance, while laying out a route towards increased inclus...
The Colburn School presented a rare performance of Jerome Robbins' A Suite of Dances, originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov.