All Things Dance In Los Angeles
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Upon entering the Highways theater space, one is struck by the intricate set for Jayde Spiegel’s “Empty fields yield familiar faces, who know me, who I know too.” The overall theme was one of country/western with a bale of hay deposited in a trough-like box stage left, just beyond were three women all lumped onto […]
Legacy ballet centennial celebration in Santa Monica; a puppet debut after 40 years in Eagle Rock; Mexico’s African influences in the Hollywood Hills; LA-based Butoh master teams with Bay area vocalist in Venice; more SoCal dance this week, plus a peek at next week. Live Performance This Week (ending August 27) Party en pointe Before […]
On Friday, August 7th, 2026, I attended the culmination of the first year of MovementFest LA at LA Dance Project. Produced by Jessie Lee Thorne, Mike Tyus, and Majella Bess, this program brings together contemporary dancers from around the world while also highlighting local artists, with the goal of elevating Los Angeles as a contemporary […]
On a steamy August evening at the Brockus Project Studio in downtown L.A., the hum of air conditioners and fans cooling the spacey white-box studio was a welcome change. Soft spots created ambient lighting on the light-gray Mylar floor, with curtains hung from ceiling to floor on the far left of the 10 ft high […]
Our Simone had a unique mind with a capacity for brilliant, original ideas that sprang to it. A genius. Huddle, as many in the dance world know, is Simone’s signature work, and one of her Dance Constructions- a work born of a powerful desire to climb, and to use her muscles, a yearning she felt […]
Eclectic dance festival in Santa Monica; choreography with a female viewpoint in DowntownLA Arts District; interdisciplinary installation in Santa Monica; family friendly puppets in Eagle Rock; more SoCal dance this week, a peek at next week, plus some dance news of note, including a warning not to open any grant e-mail from an infected California […]
BrockusRED (formerly Brockus Project Dance Company) will celebrate its 35th anniversary this weekend with the premiere of Deborah Brockus’s “Every Scrap of Grace” at the Brockus Project Studios August 7 – 9, 2026. In a press release, Brockus described her new work as “”A full evening work examining humanity When everything falls away, you are […]
On Sunday, August 3, 2026, I found myself staring up at a cloudless, mid-summer pastel sky, the smell of tacos and cocktails and the sound of light chatter filling the parking lot as I waited for the final performance of Frame 001 to begin on the first weekend of the inaugural MovementFest LA. A new […]
On Friday, July 24th, 2026 I attended Backhausdance’s presentation of “HIVE” at the Sandi Simon Center for Dance, Chapman University. The programming was a wrap up of Backhausdance’s annual summer intensive in partnership with Chapman. The evening included demonstrations, video footage of the intensive, as well as the performed work, and I was able to […]
The LA Dance Project studio was set up with a large screen upstage center and, along with the usual bleacher-style seating, had comfy couches on the sides. There was also popcorn and drinks to be had like any movie house in LA. The first half of the evening was dedicated to archival movies that put […]
