As a gong strikes, sounds from 5,000-year-old Chinese instruments rise to blend with a 40-piece Western orchestra. Sixty dancers take the stage in front of a 30-foot tall video backdrop as audiences embark on an...
Category - Dance
Pauline Adamek
City Ballet of Los Angeles presents “Nutcracker” – Los Angeles dance report
One thing is for sure: Los Angeles is not now, nor has it ever been, renowned for its whole-hearted support for the artistic world of ballet. A shame, for outsider dance is very much appreciated when it deigns to travel...
Ash Revell
SUNDAY ONLY! ‘Dia de los Muertos’ block party – Louie Cruz Beltran and his Latin Jazz Orchestra will headline 24th STreet Theatre’s free event – Los Angeles culture review
TOMORROW ONLY! A special Dia de los Muertos celebration! Louie Cruz Beltran and his Latin Jazz Orchestra will headline 24th STreet Theatre’s free, annual Dia de los Muertos block party on Sunday, Nov. 2., from 6-10 p...
Invertigo Dance Theatre presents “After it Happened” – Los Angeles dance theater review
After it Happened is an intensely theatrical piece of transdisciplinary work by Invertigo Dance Theatre that creates a post-disaster world that manages to be disturbing, beautiful, and very, very funny, all at once. I...
ONE NIGHT ONLY! Angélique Kidjo to perform Valley Performing Arts Center – Los Angeles concert report
“For me, the audience is a huge part of a concert.” — Angélique Kidjo. Grammy-winning African songstress Angélique Kidjo and acclaimed Brooklyn-based world beat octet Red Baraat will perform together at...
