A Russian ballet about an obsessive teacher in Costa Mesa, flamenco in Silver Lake and Alhambra, contemporary choreography previewed in Lincoln Heights, an all-male hula company in Whittier, Mexican folkloric dance in Orange, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Expanding a folkloric footprint A weekend of free dance and music highlight the 4th Annual Heartbeat of …
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Home That place where you find rest. Where you lay your head And dreams flow. Home A place where smiles are shared A place of belonging Surrounded by people you love That’s everyone’s home Not mine My home is where the hatred is I never found love My home was a prison Where I still …
We are proud to publish Hollywood Lens Z, a series of student essays written in partial fulfillment of Dr. Kathleen Tarr’s first-year course taught in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, “That’s Entertainment! The Rhetoric of Hollywood’s Inequities.” PERVASIVE STEREOTYPES OF BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA If you were to ask me, a …
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Although first out on NOWNESS in 2015, the film The Blue Fall only recently came to my attention. It is an extremely short (under two minutes) and beautifully danced, filmed, and edited piece, featuring dancer and choreographer Nicole Morel with direction by Esteban. Morel has a lovely ethereal quality and in this short her movement is …
For some time now, the 24th Street Theatre has been specializing in plays for children designed to make them think and feel. Plays with human heft. It’s an exquisite idea when it works. Not so much when it doesn’t. Their current offering is The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, adapted by Dwayne Hartford, Artistic Director of Tempe, …
“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your generous donation …” — your friendly sidewalk sweeper P. by name is an old acquaintance through frequent sidewalk encounters exchanging banter for a donation, and now posing for a portrait, seated in front of a well-trafficked book store entrance. At Christmas, he will bring his own seat, placing it …
I think we can all agree that women have taken a back seat to men for far too long. The election was stolen from Hillary. Beyonce may have preordained it in her song “Rule the World,” but real change comes unevenly. Women like AOC and Katie Porter are shaking up the House of Representatives like …
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Hours of Operation You are an emergency room open all night holidays, weekends even when the moon is having palpitations you know how to shock the sky into rhythm even when the sun is non responsive you remember how quiet you must be to find the dawn there are ways you seem to understand when …
NEW LENS I LAY THERE NAKED BLISSFULLY IGNORANT HEARING THE HELPLESS LAUGHTER SEEING THE UNCONTROLLABLE SMILES AND THE GRINS THAT EXTENDED FROM CHEEK TO CHEEK I SAT THERE SEMI CLOTHED FEELING THE WIND CARESS MY HALF NAKED BODY SEEING EVERYONE STANDING TOGETHER AS ONE HEARING THE BIRDS AND THE CHOIR HARMONIZING ALL AT ONCE I …
Remembering I.M. Pei When I heard that the internationally acclaimed modernist architect, I.M. Pei, died on May 16 at the age of 102, I lamented his passing and paused to reflect on where and when this immensely talented patrician Chinese-born American architect and I had crossed paths. Known affectionately by colleagues and friends as “I.M.,” …
The Oresteia, adapted by Ellen McLaughlin, begins with Clytemnestra’s nightmare, a dream of washing the walls of her house until she realizes the pail she is using is filled with blood. This scene introduces the internally discovered landscape of McLaughlin’s imaginative adaptation of the original Aeschylus trilogy. In her modern version of this ancient work, Ellen McLaughlin …
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What is there left to say about Andy Warhol? He was one of a handful of 20th-century artists who truly became household names, like Picasso. He was a hugely successful pop artist in the 1960s, even if others like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were more influential and inventive. His work captured the age, despite …
Sometimes…it does feel as if life is simply out to get us. You make a choice you believe is right, you fight for it with everything you’ve got, or think you’ve got. And then that thing you thought was a simple choice comes back to haunt you. Mitchell and Daniel have been partners for seven …
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