If "Billy Elliot" had a sequel, it might look like the life of Liam Mower. At age 12, Mower won the title role of the original West End production of "Billy Elliot: The Musical" in London. N…
By Christina Campodonico When former Soul Train dancer Sylvia Taylor lost her sight as the result of a botched eye surgery about nine-and-a-half-years ago, it put her life on pause. "I …
By Christina Campodonico At first glance, 19th century story ballets -- about women trapped in swan bodies, a princess in a perpetual sleep, and a Nutcracker Prince transported to a Land of…
by CHRISTINAÂ CAMPODONICO Sefton's choreography can feel like watching a teenager's diary come to life. At a Clairobscur Dance Company rehearsal " of which Sefton is the founder and Ar…
by CHRISTINA CAMPODONICO Heidi Duckler first encountered the King Hing Theater in Chinatown, the dormant cinema was filled with not entirely unexpected flotsam. "It was full of movie …
Frida Kahlo and John Coltrane are an unlikely pair, but at the Ford amphitheater in Hollywood, they proved an exhilarating match. The Los Angeles-based Latin dance theater troupe Contra-Tiem…
by CHRISTINA CAMPODONICO many, talking about ballet can feel like speaking in a foreign language. (Its mother tongue is French, after all). But choreographer and American Contemporary Ba…
Swedish choreographer Mats Ek shocked the dance world when he announced in January that he would be retiring his repertoire of works from the world stage. The news means Southern California …
The Montagues and Capulets may be feuding once again, but in Los Angeles Ballet's forthcoming production of "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare's tragic love story is a happier family affair. Th…
If there is such a thing as dance heaven, Garth Fagan Dance showed Saturday that it knows the path there. The Rochester, N.Y.-based company presented the West Coast premiere of "Geoffrey Hol…
by CHRISTINA CAMPODONICO choreographer and professional journalist Maritza Navarro, pursuing dance has never been a question of "either/or," only "and." "[Dance has] always been somet…
by CHRISTINA CAMPODONICO I arrive at the apartment complex in Angelino Heights, via a winding drive that leaves me mildly disoriented, a woman is sitting on the building's ti…
The party may already have been over when "New Faithful Disco" started, or perhaps it just had begun. The new dance piece by Los Angeles choreographer Meg Wolfe made its world premiere at RE…
Ballet isn't often served with a side of champagne truffles, but Los Angeles-based American Contemporary Ballet invited audiences to enjoy confections, literal and figurative, at weekend per…