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Heidi Duckler Dance: Ebb and Flow

Moseying Into the New Now

Live dance with a stroll at an historic Chinatown park, contemporary moves in an Arts District parking lot, a downtown plaza hosts a New York visitor, and ballet with a live orchestra in a Pasadena gazebo, plus online offerings of recent live concerts and considering the era Little Tokyo was Bronzeville, and lessons from a prior plague, plus recent online encores, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance, live and online, this week.

Book of Mormon, fun and filthy as ever

The Book of Mormon is back, now more irreverently relevant than ever. In America’s Twilight Zone age of religion and politics—where a GOP-backed porn star president touts his “family values” while a gay candidate challenges him—the musical’s existential message is a must-see, even if you’ve seen it before. Winner of nine Tony Awards, The Book of …

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater + Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal in LA

This week there are two live dance events converging upon Los Angeles that should not go unnoticed: The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion presents the seminal Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (April 15-19), and Canada’s contemporary Les Ballet Jazz de Montreal (BJM Danse) comes to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (April 16-18). In many …

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