by Benn Widdey | Apr 4, 2018 | Theater and Dance |
Returning to UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance at the Freud Playhouse, MacArthur Genius and current Visiting Professor in Residence in the university’s Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Kyle Abraham brings his six-member company, Abraham.In.Motion, to...
by Benn Widdey | Apr 4, 2018 | Featured, Theater and Dance |
Repertory dance companies offer audiences a chance to see a variety of choreographers’ visions in one production. It’s a great way to explore different movement aesthetics, knowing that the next dance in the program may be totally different from the one now on stage....
by Benn Widdey | Feb 27, 2018 | Theater and Dance |
Los Angeles has long been an incubator for new dance ideas in American culture. Ruth St. Denis pioneered her exotic style of appropriated movement explorations right here in the early 20th century. Isadora Duncan soon followed that by drawing away from ballet and...
by Benn Widdey | Jan 30, 2018 | Theater and Dance |
This Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 3 and 4, at 4 p.m., envelope-pushing choreographer Ann Carlson returns to the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA to unleash her “Doggie Hamlet.” A site-specific piece to be performed at Will Rogers State Historic Park near Pacific...
by Benn Widdey | Jan 9, 2018 | Art and Museums, Entertainment and Events, Theater and Dance |
Starting Thursday, Jan. 11, and running through Sunday, Jan. 21, a slew of local performing spaces — both indoors and out — will host PACIFIC STANDARD TIME: LA/LA. An international festival of large and small-scale live art, the event features more than 75 works by...
