Even when Hilary Thomas is teaching biology to students at Flintridge Prep, she is dancing. With degrees in psychology and dance from Santa Clara University, perhaps it’s no wonder. She studies the human body with the self-knowledge of a dancer, often teaching it with movement association, and acts as artistic director and principal choreographer for [...]
Literary classics can be given new life with new artwork, and the Bible itself has undergone a re-inking or several to appeal to new, or younger, audiences. “The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb,” though – “all 50 chapters!” brags the cover – is not illustrated for kiddie appeal. God’s wrinkled brow and the [...]
The latest dance installation at REDCAT through Oct. 25, called “Beautiful Me,” may seem intimidating. Gregory Maqoma and Vuyani Dance Theatre hale from South Africa, and this evening-length piece – on its first U.S. tour – encompasses both Maqoma himself and his national, cultural history. Maqoma has collaborated with choreographers from around the globe: Vincent [...]
A dance performance requires many feats. There are rehearsals, technology, tour arrangements, box offices, and (in LA, anyway) maddening Friday evening traffic. Once these come together, it’s easy to forget an important little question: Why? But in their West Coast debut at UCLA Live, Hofesh Shechter Company seemed to have built the query into the [...]
Hofesh Shechter Company will be making its West Coast debut this weekend at UCLA Live, performing the eponymous choreographer’s “Uprising” and “In your rooms.” Brush up on your recent history: The 2006 youth riots in Paris are the noted source for the former. Better yet, brush up on your dance history: Shechter is the artistic [...]
Guest contributor Colleen McLellan gives a preview of Lineage Dance’s fall lineup. She blogs about dance at www.ladanceblogger.blogspot.com.
In a handily symbiotic event, Lineage Dance will be holding a performance to benefit (it) magazine this Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Colony Theater in Burbank. An online publication, (it) focuses on “solutions-driven stories,” working to support and [...]
