Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Where are the programs? Are they on those cube benches in the middle of the stage? I think maybe I’ll change seats, so this hanging banner isn’t blocking my view of the dancer. Perhaps i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PMAlmost four years have passed since American Ballet Theatre promoted Misty Copeland to its top ranks, making her its first African American female principal dancer. But just try to find an A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PMAmerican Ballet Theatre's latest touring production is an extravaganza with 174 costumes - each costing an average of $4,775 to make. Here's a deep look at meticulously researched and crafte…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
Some day, female choreographers will get their due. And eventually a program of dances made exclusively by women will cease to be an anomaly. Until then, here’s a warm nod to Ballet Hispá…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:55PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin uses a body language stripped of inhibitions. His dancers incarnate fear, despair, hysteria, joy and every feeling in between. He won’t explain what’s …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:50PMFriday, June 15, 2018
Donald McKayle mixed love with melancholy in his 2015 lyrical dance piece “Bittersweet Farewell,” which honored deceased friends — bonds made during 70 years working on Broadway and in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:55PMSunday, April 22, 2018
It might take a little longer yet before we can forget that Dance Theatre of Harlem almost didn’t make it, that the main company was stilled by financial and administrative turmoil for eig…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:35PMThursday, February 15, 2018
Shocked, wordless, traumatized. That was the emotional condition Canadian actor and theater director Jonathon Young experienced after his young daughter died in an accidental fire. Young's E…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMFriday, March 17, 2017
It took almost 100 years, but composer Richard Strauss’ ballet “Whipped Cream” is finally a bewitching success, thanks to the pairing of artist Mark Ryden with choreographer Alexei Rat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:10PMTuesday, January 17, 2017
The leading man in Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed movie “La La Land” is a Serious Musician, churning out pop music covers at Hollywood parties to pay the rent. The leading lady endures hu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Never underestimate the importance of symbolism. Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre's first black principal dancer, was the lead ballerina in the opening night of Segerstrom Hall's pre…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMNever underestimate the importance of symbolism. Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre’s first black principal dancer, was the lead ballerina in the opening night of Segerstrom Hall’s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Imagine the fantastical possibilities and imagery — not to mention confusion — if figures in classical sculpture could suddenly move, breaking free of their frozen poses. This was one wa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:39PMMonday, May 2, 2016
Choreographer Daniel Ezralow defined himself in a long-ago interview as an “art-lete,” a combination artist-athlete. Nearly 30 years on, that’s still an apt way to consider his populis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:53AMSaturday, April 9, 2016
Brotherhood. There’s a word glaringly absent from public mood and discourse. But brotherhood is integral to the work of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and the company has the idea fro…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:10AMMonday, March 28, 2016
Los Angeles, which underappreciates its dance artists, owes a debt to John Pennington. He is one of the city’s treasures. Performer, choreographer, teacher and legacy-keeper of the late Be…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25AMThursday, March 17, 2016
"Toro" is a case study in how the show can go on — despite the loss of one of its two stars — and make magic anyway. Presented Tuesday night at the Irvine Barclay Theatre, "Toro" is an o…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:29PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Midway through its 10th anniversary season, Los Angeles Ballet added another full-length classic to its repertory, a three-act "Don Quixote," which the company premiered at the Redondo Beach…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:36AMMonday, February 22, 2016
New York choreographer Jessica Lang has a knack for conceiving a complete universe in each dance — distinctive in its look and mood, sound and atmosphere. She is a ballet illusionist, a mo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:20PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky has made his own Christmas miracle: a joyful “Nutcracker” ballet that is ravishing and clever enough to inspire multiple viewings. Cynical adults who feel …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:27PMThursday, August 6, 2015
There are plenty of quotable moments in "Tap World," an engaging new documentary. Dancers were invited to share their stories with the filmmakers, and not surprisingly the ones selected are …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:25PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Bring together two celebrity danseurs, give them each gala-style programs, add 17 of their most talented friends, and - voila - you have an audience-pleasing formula that stoked some well-de…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:13AMMonday, May 18, 2015
Mark Morris' danced opera "Dido and Aeneas" is a tour de force of late 20th century artistic storytelling, a partial retelling of Virgil's 2,000-year-old epic poem "Aeneid" using Henry Purce…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
For most of its storied history, New York's American Ballet Theatre has tried to master all styles of all types of classical dance, an elusive goal that some critics have called impossible.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:27PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
From our 21st century vantage, Mikhailovsky Ballet’s “The Flames of Paris” is a crazy quilt of cultural references — a rousing Soviet-style story ballet about the French revolution, …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:13PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
Twenty-four years ago, the Classical Dance Company of Cambodia astounded audiences at the Los Angeles Festival with its ritual dances and stories of fantastical demons and mythical goddesses.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSunday, February 9, 2014
In the contemporary ballet “Liliom” -- based on a 1909 play of the same name, which Rodgers & Hammerstein turned into the musical “Carousel” -- Hamburg Ballett choreo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:23PMSunday, May 12, 2013
Los Angeles Ballet’s Balanchine Festival continues with three stirring modern masterworks, two of which highlight the brilliant outputs of double giants of the last century.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:10PMSunday, April 7, 2013
On an astonishingly busy weekend of dance, Angelenos had the good fortune Saturday to experience two exceptional site-specific performances: the local debut of Trisha Brown’s historic …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:40PMSunday, March 24, 2013
Los Angeles Ballet returns to its roots for this, its seventh season, by devoting its two spring repertory programs to masterworks -- and slightly lesser ballets -- of George Balanchine.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:49PMTuesday, May 15, 2012
The new musical written by Doug Wright centers on 10 people competing to see who could keep their hand on a Nissan pickup truck the longest. LA JOLLA — From Florenz Ziegfeld's synchron…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:32PM 
