Live tango in Costa Mesa, personal tales in La Mirada, Japanese Taiko in Malibu, new contemporary choreography in El Sereno, an outré film fest in Santa Monica, and the avant garde in an arts district parking lot, plus a peek at next week and Covid changes. Live Dance (Note: as of press time, these events …
Folkloric Día de los Muertos in East LA, contemporary debut in Beverly Hills, dance-drenched fest in Culver City, new dance in Boyle Heights, Samba in Northridge, dance theater in Irvine, opera dances at the Music Center, all live! Plus new dance films, dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. 1990’s whimsy Whether choreographing on …
Live dance on an Arts District rooftop, folkloric for Día de los Muertos at Grand Park, illuminated umbrellas at the Music Center, the 19th amendment celebrated in Culver City, last week for a Disney Hall festival, plus museum dance in Leimert Park and Westwood, new dance films, dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week with a …
Contemporary in Beverly Hills, ballet in Malibu, new dance downtown, modern al fresco in Corona del Mar, folklorico in the Hollywood Hills, performance in a Westwood museum, all live! A festival encore, post modern choreography in a Leimert Park exhibit, new dance films, dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. So rudely interrupted In …
Hip hop in the Hollywood Hills, contemporary in Century City, modern in Corona del Mar, all live, all outdoors! New dance downtown and post modern choreography exhibited in Leimert Park, new dance films, online encores, dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. With funds from the Phil Arguably SoCal’s premiere concert hip hop troupe, Versa-Style Dance Company …
Most dancers will tell you that they didn’t choose dance… it chose them. The process of becoming a dancer and/or dance maker is fraught with pain, struggle, and rejection. I am so pleased that today dance is moving towards being an art form that has something for every body. This is one of the many inspirations …
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Now well into my sixth year of writing ScreenDance Diaries, I frequently receive texts, Facebook messages, and emails from people sending me dance films they hope I’ll write about… or from friends recommending I watch something that I’ve almost always already seen. Although I am occasionally introduced to some lovely films, when I received an …
As a species, by and large, we are social creatures. And while it was likely already amongst us as early as December of last year, COVID-19 seemed to come out from nowhere, stealthily laying the groundwork for what would soon change the world as we knew it, one of the first fallouts being our ability to …
Most creatives are used to some degree of isolation… Painters, sculptors, composers, musicians, writers often work and/or practice alone. And most artists of all stripes are used to some degree of isolation and marginalization. But… this is unprecedented. And the dancers are getting restless. Major venues, festivals, and dance companies have cancelled their seasons. Gone are …
Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival: Six Foot Distance Dances Read More »
Over the next several weeks I am excited to be sharing the films by the Winners and Honorable Mentions of Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival: Round 3. We were thrilled to have our first live (and very successful!) screening at LA’s REDCAT (Roy & Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater) at the invitation of Dance …
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I’m almost positive I saw this screened years ago at Dance Camera West, but I recently once again came upon the 2015 film Black Train is Coming and was moved anew by the music, the movement, and the total straightforwardness, polish, and lack of pretense of its dancers, ENinja and Joyntz from Turf Feinz of …
A long slow walk down a dimly lit corridor, the statuesque and elegant silhouette of a woman walking, and the subservient, almost helpless figure of the love-struck man following her provide the main set up for i could have, what looks to be—but apparently isn’t—a music video for “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” by the …
As a choreographer doing copious amounts of site-specific work, I am obsessed with the possibilities proposed by the physical scale, both architectural and natural, that a site presents. I respond instinctively, pursuing the human movement, forms, and relationships suggested by and in response to the height, distance, and horizon of a place. How best to bring …
In 2014, Bolon, the internationally known Swedish design and flooring company (that I confess to having never heretofore heard of), came up with a great idea for marketing their new line “Silence” with a gem of an ad that features a collaboration with renowned and truly inventive choreographer, Alexander Ekman. Whether intentional or not, part …
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 …
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